The 25 Days of Christmas starts today! Everyday we'll post a Christmas Classic and give it a Festivity rating. You can expect them all to be the opposite of subjective, each one coming down to us just being really excited about Christmas. So if you are like us and love any film that mentions tinsel then this is for you! If you are a Grinch this will be 25 days or terrible terror. We have split all these Christmas treasures into Five Christmas Category's:
The Christmas Story - How Christmassy the story is
The Voice of Christmas- There is always one person who gets the Christmas message and tries to get everyone to understand it. Whether it be Santa himself or an angel without his wings
The Christmas Annoying Kid - Christmas isn't Christmas without an annoying kid
The Christmas Miracle-It's not Christmas without a good guy getting a gift or a bad guy learning a lesson
The Christmas Message-How Christmassy is that message
Let the Christmas begin!
How The Grinch Stole Christmas is an absolute stone cold, drop dead Christmas classic. Even if you haven't seen it you know probably know alot about it. So it only seems right to start with the Ron Howard remake of that animated classic.
The Christmas Story
The Whos of Whoville really love Christmas, they love it to the point that even mentioning someone who doesn't like Christmas makes them all freak out. That someone who hates it is the Grinch. The Grinch is a Who who isn't really a Who, he's more of a what, and he hates Christmas a whole hell of alot. No one knows why, but everyone knows he doesn't like it at all. After being degraded at the Whobillations he realizes he must pull the greatest of all anti-Christmas demonstrations, stealing every single present under every single tree. It's a great story but in order to make it a feature length film they add lots of excess weight you don't really need. The Basic Grinch story is brilliant but with all the extra baggage and lack of silly rhymes, it's not all here. 3/5
The Voice of Christmas
The Narrator is the very definition of the voice of Christmas. Everything he says rhymes! If that's not Christmassy then I don't know what is. However due to the extended length of the film he speaks alot less and is sorely missed. 4/5
The Christmas Annoying Kid
Our annoying child takes the form of Cindy Lou Who. Not only does she doubt the capitalization of Christmas spirit in the form of gifts and lights (For Shame!) but she has a terrible singing voice and pesters everyone about Christmas and how the Grinch just needs some warmth and compassion. She invites the Grinch to be the Cheermeister to make herself feel better about the Yuletide. So that's the selfish box ticked. She is so annoying that anytime you aren't rolling your eyes at her you are not really paying attention. She even says "Please Mr. Please". However she never stops being annoying, even at the end she is still aggravatingly annoying, so she never learns the truest of Christmas lessons, don't be annoying at Christmas. 3/5
The Christmas Miracle
Through realizing that Christmas is all about love and family the Grinch's tiny cold heart grows 3 sizes bigger and he invites everyone round for Lunch. The revelation that Christmas is all about love actually causing ones heart to grow is certainly some form of freakish miracle. In other films that kind of realization just makes someone nicer. Not in the Grinch. Hell no! The dude biological and emotionally changes in less than a minute! 5/5
The Christmas Message
Avarice and greed isn't what Christmas should be about but the Grinch gives this message (even though he doesn't realize it till the end) in such a violent Suffragette-style manner that he needs the light touch of Cindy to put it into words that the Who's can understand. It's a pretty traditional contemporary Christmas message. 4/5
Extra Marks
Jim Carrey and his amazing Make-up +1
The Horrible songs -1
It all takes place on a Snowflake +1
It's really Overlong -1
Creepy Noses -2
Overall Festivity Rating: 17/25
JO
Tomorrow Die Hard Cause Action Movies Can Be Christmassy Too
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