5 More Sleeps 'til Christmas

My children and I thoroughly enjoyed this movie! Such a cute addition to our traditional Christmas movie list. Jimmy Fallon did a great job narrating. I didnt even know it was a book he wrote himself. The style of the animation is unique and well done. I love the story too. My eldest especially could relate as he remembers the arrival of each sibling and how he had to adapt to each change. He eventually would learn to love his brother and sister so much. Overall a great heart warming Christmas movie! My kids agree that it was too short, they enjoyed it so much. We will be watching it every year on December 20th!

Super cute animation and story, easy for kids in blended families to relate and understand. Was fun to watch amidst all of the reruns and repetitive Christmas movies.

There's only five more sleeps until Christmas. A boy has planned out everything perfectly to get the best Christmas. He has his divorced mom and his dog Gary. His plans are all thrown into doubt when surprise guest Michael shows up with his daughter Evie.

This is apparently Jimmy Fallon's project adapted from his book. He's also narrating which is problematic for me. His voice is distinctive and his popular persona doesn't have the gravitas. This is a half hour special which deals with some heavier family issues. He's probably not the right guy to narrate this. In addition, this material may be ripe for adapting to a half hour sitcom. So the format may be off. I like this but only up to a point.

The animation is pretty nice. Not the best, but bright and cheery, though the head style was a little odd but OK, that's a style choice.

I did not by any means expect the heart of "A Christmas Story," nor did I expect the master storyteller narration of Jean Shepherd. But yikes. Jimmy Fallon was downright flat. Awful. He sounded bored and probably was. Plus he's not even an actor. No emotion. Just terrible. Ugh.

The story was an odd choice. An anal retentive Christmas. Yay. And oh, Fallon was the author of the book it is based on. Figures. There really nothing in it to recommend it, nor to advise strongly against it. It's just sort of there, like the bland narration. I guess kids may like it for the fact it is a cartoon.

The jerkiness of the incomplete animation is rather jarring. Also numerous close-ups were poorly done with vibrating edges instead of properly rendered ones.

The story is ok, but money spent on narration should have been used to add frames and clean up the animation instead.