Christmas Karma

I dont even remember the last time i left a review on a movie and ive watched over 250 in the past 12 months! This seriously was so awful I felt the need to.

From the first 5 minutes I knew I was in for a painful watch. Im not one to leave though, so I stuck it out until the end.

I felt for the kids in the cinema more than anything because its cruel making anyone sit through this movie, never mind children.

It had a very political agenda and had things shoved down your throat, the acting was questionable from all involved. Just to shout out Pixie Lott because I actually love her but in this her acting was so bad I was cringing everytime she was on screen. I must have rolled my eyes 30 plus times, im not even exaggerating! It was that bad.

As youve probably guessed, I do not recommend this at all unless you want your eyes to itch with pain for 2+ hours.

This movie could've been a Christmas classic. It has a relatively strong cast and feels distinctly British. But it's let down by so many basic shortfalls it's hard to look past.

1. The autotune for some of the songs is just awful.

2. Much of the singing tracks don't match their mouth movements on screen, they're often out of sync or just totally different (seriously!!) 3. The dialogue is unbelievably cringe at some points - the toast at the dinner table to the NHS is one such moment (keeping in mind they are raising money for him to be treated in Switzerland).

4. Kunal Nayar's performance is incredibly wooden. I can't redeem it.

So yeah, could have been good - works out as slightly below average.

I've seen a lot of Gurinder Chadha's films, and they are very hit-or-miss. All are linked to her own family history - this one, her being born to a Punjabi family in Kenya, which she devoted a little too much of the running time to. The film was poorly paced, had a lead actor too young for the role, bad lip-syncing, stilted dialogue, and heavy-handed politics. But my biggest gripe was the dubious morality. Having a progressive attitude towards refugees is fine, and the message criticising people who pull the ladder up behind them makes sense. But the view that money solves everything was just weird. Snood throws his money around, and we are supposed to cheer. Danny Dyer abandons his family on Christmas Day for a large wad of cash. Snood buys everything at the corner shop and pays for Tiny Tim's private healthcare. He wasn't embracing Christmas; he was being ostentatious. We had to travel to see the film because it's not playing on many screens, but it was what we expected, and I have no doubt we'll watch it again. Even if it's just to see Billy Porter and Danny Dyer singing again - for different reasons.

What on earth were the makers of this film thinking?! Do not bother taking your children to see this. Do not bother, full-stop! Idi Amin and politics are not appropriate entertainment for children, never mind marketed as a family Christmas film.

Gob smacked and traumatised! Speechless. So, so bad.

See Elf instead. See a good film.

I went into this film underwhelmed, outside of a cheap animated one for toddlers and couple of horrors, there's 1 Christmas movie getting a uk cinema release which has been the case for last couple of years, so you'd assume that one would be a brand new cheesy classic fresh and ready to be added to the list of yearly binges.

But nope, for the 57347534th time someone thought, let's do the Christmas Carol story but add another mind numbingly boring twist, people are saying it's getting hate because it showed different religions.. no it didn't, it portrayed nothing of anything very well at all, no traditions or in depth looks at other cultures or how they celebrate, that's just a lazy excuse to hide behind this being a garbage movie.

Acting is horrendous, a lot of pretty well known faces and they all suck here, the dialogue is awful and the chemistry is none existent, the three ghosts were dreadful and offered nothing at all, adding in day of the dead was a needless and cheap, didn't add any depth to it anyway.

The music was awful, I mean Pixie Lott can sing but didn't bother here, she should never ever act again, this was hilariously bad, the music was terrible, forgettable and just completely needless, 10 people left the cinema based off the 1st song as it went on and on and on and you could tell it was goons to be bad.

I'd say 85% is 0/10 10% of film 5/10 5% was 7/10 (the last bit is always good.

Unwatchable in places, it's disgusting cinemas are charging full prices for this. It's far worse than stuff you get on the apps.

Just don't.