A quick overview of some of the most important family Christmas DVDs for 2009.
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Today I’d like to talk about one of the Christmas DVDs that I personally don’t like very much. Nevertheless it’s a holiday classic.
In the mid-30s a new trend occurred: Laurel and Hardy were put in fantasy, medieval, musical film. Many fans complain about today, because these genres were too “abstract” for the world-famous [...]
Cover of Home Alone
Christmas DVDs have always centered on the topics of love, warmth and happiness. They mainly include family and never forget good morals. The cult comedy Home Alone by Chris Columbus keeps this premise. But in between there is a proper dose of slapstick comedy, with great actors, in an imaginative story.
The plot [...]
The Santa Clause is one of the most beautiful Christmas DVDs of our time. The movie tells the story of newly divorced Scott Calvin who spends Christmas Eve with his son. Suddenly there’s a ruble on the roof and Calvin goes to see, who’s making such a noise. There’s Santa Claus himself, however, he falls [...]
Cover of Scrooged
Charles Dickens‘ Christmas Carol is one of the most adapted-to-film-books of all time. There are good adaptations (The Muppet Christmas Carol) and there are bad examples (too many)! Here we have a very weird version of this Christmas tale. Scrooged an action-packed Christmas Comedy. And, oh wonder: It works!
Scrooged tells the famous story [...]
Cover of Elf [Blu-ray]
One of the biggest surprises in 2003 was without a doubt Elf which I wanted to classify as a trivial and silly children’s film. Here’s the plot:
The film stars Will Ferrell as the film’s central character “Buddy”, and Ed Asner as Santa Claus. As an infant in a New York City orphanage, [...]
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All of us I’m sure have our own personal favorite Christmas movies, but to me so many of the new movies focus on the trappings of Christmas without dealing with the meaning of Christmas. I loved National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation and last years Home for Christmas with Ben Stiller but again they both [...]
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Our Nightmare Before Christmas story starts innocently enough in Halloween Town which is an eerie, spooky dreamland. A dreamland occupied by such ghostly citizens as deformed monsters, ghosts , ghouls , goblins, vampires werewolves and witches. The core of the Nightmare Before Christmas story centers around our hero Jack Skellington, [...]
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News website examiner released a very funny list containing the Top 10 Geek Christmas DVDs.
I especially like number 8 on this list: He-Man and She-Ra: A Christmas Special!
Here’s how the Geek Examiner summarizes the story:
Orko accidentally crash lands Man-At-Arms’ Sky Spy Satellite on Earth right before Christmas. While there, he meets two children [...]
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The Christmas season is filled with lots of extras activities. Getting today for work parties, family gatherings, buying presents, wrapping presents, decorating the tree. Well, you get the idea. Sometimes it does take an actually scheduled date to set aside time to relax yourself or with family or friends. It is [...]