This is super sweet. It’s told in a brash, irreverent tone, but it’s a very sentimental Christmas movie about Santa Claus and stuff. If you’re easily moved, it’s full of really touching scenes throughout: It’s amazing that they keep delivering these highly emotional punches time and time again.
And the animation is really fun to watch.
So: Sweet, funny, pretty, touching. It’s a new Xmas classic.
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Holiday in the Wild. Ernie Barbarash. 2019. ☆☆★★★★ This is initially just confusing, because they're sending off somebody to college... ... but which one is he? Is the one in the middle or the one on the right? Who's playing the teenager here? (It's the one in the middle, and…
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