Christmas Is Here Again

G

2007

1 hr. 14 min.

Kids & Family

Holiday

Musical

Comedy

Adventure

Animation

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100+ Ratings

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An elf, a reindeer, a fox and a polar bear (Brad Garrett) help an orphan girl (Madison Davenport) find Santa's (Andy Griffith) toy sack.

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June Carter C

This is a charming little movie for little kids and some funny Norm Macdonald lines for adults! 5 out of 5!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

11/20/22

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I watched this Christmas Day because I felt like watching something Christmassy. I'm not sure what I was expecting, but at first I was excited by names I recognized, like "Andy Griffith" and "Jay Leno." As I then learned, I think they were riding heavily on those names. The animation was spectacular, and the story concept itself wasn't bad. I struggled between a 2 and a 3, but the site generously allows me to give it a 2.5 rating. Despite the big names, some of the voice acting leaves quite a bit to be desired. It's passable, but there are many points where you can't help but get this nagging feel like the voice actor's tone, inflection and statement of the phrase doesn't quite fit what's going on. In addition, the execution of the story itself could have been better, with less "unexplained" stark changes. Some of the characters change so dramatically without explanation it just seems odd, if even creepy and disingenuous. However, the worst part of this movie, and honestly the biggest detractor from my score, is its attempt at songs, of which there are several. I can't really describe just how bad the songs were. I could have written better lyrics, and that's saying something. The music was great, but the words and dialog felt like the writers had just given up and said, "Okay, these words rhyme. We'll stick them in there." I have never, ever, ever actually felt a lack of effort in a song before, and here it was awful. My Little Pony episodes have better lyrics than this show did. On the one hand you could say "they were writing for little kids," but if I were a little kid watching this, I'd still have been turned off. The songs felt empty, endlessly repetitive, and frankly bland. If this song had better dialog and better songwriting where it felt like they had actually cared about what they were doing, I'd give this movie a much higher rating. As it is, it might pass as a slight distraction for your really little kids, with jarring nod to the Baby Jesus that could have been better integrated. You yourself will probably experience pain.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/11/23

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The dumbest Christmas movie I have ever seen. The plot makes no sense and borrows parts of Christmas stories from the birth of Jesus, but then adds a "devil" named Cragg or something like that. They sing a really weird and creepy song called santa's sak- it makes me cringe. The cast is star studded, but the story is confusing and weird. We never know for example, why the girl has a cane. It's weird. I wish Netflix would remove it so I don't have to see it ever again.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

02/18/23

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It wasn't your norm and sure had some unexpected negativity but my 4 year old loved it and I enjoyed watching it with her!

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/19/23

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luv how it's about santa & Jesus<3

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/20/23

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I thought this was pretty lame. There were a few funny lines from the polar bear, but mostly a very average movie. It is nowhere near the other Christmas classics.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/03/23

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Robert Zappia

Director

Ed Asner

Krad

Kathy Bates

Miss Dowdy

Madison Davenport

Sophiana

Colin Ford

Dart

Brad Garrett

Charlee

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Richard Propes

TheIndependentCritic.com

Christmas Is Here Again is a wonderful film with lessons about compassion, giving, loyalty and never giving up hope.

Rated: 4.0/4.0

Aug 30, 2020

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Barbara Shulgasser

Common Sense Media

Orphan saves Christmas in so-so, sometimes-scary musical.

Rated: 2/5

Mar 1, 2016

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Synopsis

An elf, a reindeer, a fox and a polar bear (Brad Garrett) help an orphan girl (Madison Davenport) find Santa's (Andy Griffith) toy sack.

Director: Robert Zappia
Executive Producer: Ashley Postlewaite, Darrell Van Citters
Screenwriter: Robert Zappia
Production Co: Easy To Dream Entertainment
Rating: G
Genre: Kids & Family, Holiday, Musical, Comedy, Adventure, Animation
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 5, 2012

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