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I don't remember ever seeing this one before. For someone who knew the song very well, but not the film...wondering where have I been? If I have, it was a long time ago. It is definitely based upon the song, which is silly to begin with so the movie is just the same, far-fetched, yet considering the song and the animated movie match, it was exactly what it was supposed to be in a crazy and weird kind of way. They just made a move based on the song because they could, but that's about all. However, it turned out to be not as bad as I thought it would be, so I was a little pleasantly surprised. It's not a complete waste of time, but worthy of at least one viewing. Happy Holidays IMDb and everyone reading this review for 2017!

So what a great Christmas kids show. I rented it for my nieces and didn't realize they had to put all kinds of cleavage and inappropriate dress on the women. Its a kid show . Are you for real. I regret renting it. Could be a perfect show, but..... kids don't need to be exposed to that at a young age. Shameful.

I really do not care for animated movies, but this one was pretty good. Normally, I would not even CONSIDER watching an animated movie, but this one interested me (as the title, is that of a song have heard for years). I took a chance and did not regret it. I won't say it's a masterpiece, but it is worthy of respect. It is pretty much the way the song goes. As each detail of the story is demonstrated, a clip of the song is played. Also, there are several new songs introduced that create originality. Grandma has a store, A business man wants to buy it, but she does not want to sell. Cousin Mel plans to steal the store from Grandma, but all things change because "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer"!

This movie makes me not want kids so they would never have to see this four fingered, fruitcake tasting , Ace Attorney courtroom drama abomination of a Christmas movie.

Cousin's hot though.

Sucked this was a waste of time. There wasn't enough booze to get us through this holiday hell-hole. The plot is so stupid, a greedy cousin plots to get her Grandmother run over by a reindeer and then pin it on Santa. The storyline was frustratingly stupid and I want that hour of my life back.

Trite and tiring, the one-liners almost made me cry. My 4 year old left the room and ended up doing a puzzle. I don't know what age group this was written for, but the writer himself/herself didn't even want credit. As for the song, it's mildly amusing. At least it was a decade ago. There are many Christmas movies to watch. Although I've seen some many more times than this, they are still enjoyable. Whenever this comes on, I try to encourage my child to watch something else. One positive note, that allowed a vote of 2 instead of 1, is that it encourages good moral values. That would have been encouraging, if anyone were watching.

"Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer" is a film I hadn't seen in forever, and I'm not even sure it comes on Cartoon Network, anymore. I saw it the day it premiered, and have always had a soft spot towards it, in my heart. It has so many great things about it, for the nostalgic taste of someone who actually cares about it, but it definitely has flaws I've only now picked-up on.

Essentially, this is a film that takes that hilarious, homey classic song and adds a story around it. It's not necessarily in need of existence, and yet I've always enjoyed it, no matter how much everyone I know hates it.

You have a family literally called the Spankenheimers (lmao), and there's a grandmother whom owns a store everyone in town seems to love. A businessman tries to purchase the store, but the grandmother is not interested in selling the old, charming place. Eventually, grandma gets cold-cocked by Santa and his reindeer, and they kidnap her from the yard of her own home, even though they claim they don't know where she lives. Again, though: they kidnapped her from the front yard lol. Santa and his team take grandma to the North Pole, and keep her for almost a year. The grandmother's grandson (grandson Spankenheimer lol) doesn't believe his grandmother is dead, and he tries his best to find her. And that's the story, pretty much. Very cooky. Very odd. Very silly. But lovable, quite frankly.

I personally think the voice acting is fine from almost everyone, except for Cousin Mel (a sellout within the Spank-Bank family tree). That actress can sometimes sound sadistic, and sometimes makes me laugh out loud about her line delivery-as if she didn't understand what she was supposed to be saying.

The music is quite a mess. The original song and title is very solid, and something heartwarming for me, since I grew-up on it. But, Good Lord, it spirals downhill with songs like "Grandpa's Gonna Sue The Pants Off Of Santa". That's a real song, and it goes on for almost five minutes. It's pretty rough stuff.

The animation is not very smooth. Sometimes, it feels like they hadn't drawn enough frames, and so they just slowed-down the footage they actually drew.

The coloring is absolutely vivid, however, and I feel it makes this special movie a lot more personable and cozy in my memories from when I was younger.

If you can't tell, I really love it, in an odd way, and probably always will. I really hope, if I'm blessed with children of my own, someday, that they'll enjoy this as much as I had, for so many years.

Surprisingly, I would call this a modern Christmas classic, even though it probably shouldn't exist.

If we really want to get serious and find Osama Bin Laden, then we should take this stinker down to Gitmo and force the detainees to watch it. They'll be singing within minutes. Of course, I'm sure that making them watch this god-awful dreck violates the Geneva Convention in several ways.

Look, my 5 year old daughter isn't allowed to watch TV at home. So take her to her grandparents or cousins and she's a little TV zombie. She got up and walked away after about ten minutes. That's how bad this is.

You know, when the person responsible for this garbage was a young writer, I bet he or she had dreams of the great American novel. Now they have to look in the mirror every morning with the realization that they wrote what is possibly the worst hour of television in the history of the medium.

And we wonder why the rest of the world hates us...

This movie is really bad, but really funny because of it. Yes the plot is rather stupid but most Christmas films are not exactly plausible or in this case, "clausible". HA HA. The songs are also lame, but still funny. They also seem to have added extra ones that branch of ideas from the original. The jokes are not that hard to get, there isn't really any violence or foul language...just fine for the kids. The animations are fine, doesn't have to be CGI to be considered good. Don't know why this movie is being trashed so badly, it's not by far the worst holiday one out there. We look forward to seeing this every year and hope they keep airing it. If you haven't watched it out yet, definitely look for a copy on Amazon or YouTube.

Alright, listen. This special is all over the place. It's awkwardly animated (to say the least), the story is weakly fashioned around a satirical Christmas song (and is more filler than genuine, holly-jolly entertainment), the voice acting is subpar, and, at 51 minutes, it's way too long. But all those things are what make this ridiculous little movie so endearing. It's something I would watch as a kid and enjoy, if for nothing more than the simple story and jokes. It was a little too long to hold my attention throughout, even then, but it still had something special about it that kept me coming year after year. Now, it's good for the fun factor of it. You can't put this on expecting to see A Charlie Brown Christmas-level of quality, because that's just not it. When taken for that it is (a quick attempt for Warner Bros. to cash in on the hit Dr. Elmo song), it offers just enough to give a little holiday cheer. Shoehorning in a bunch of cuts off Dr. Elmo's Christmas record of the same name, it makes for some of the most awkward, inappropriately inserted musical numbers, perhaps, in this history of animated movies. It's worthy of countless razzies and that's why I love it.

Lame, ridiculous and absurd. My 6 year old son talked us into watching this rubbish. Tripe stereotypes and themes not appropriate for children. The antithesis of the commercialism of Christmas is not socialism it's Jesus.

When this first came out as a song, it was amusing, a light chuckle along the lines of Weird Al's Christmas at Ground Zero. That was over a decade ago. Now someone's decided that we need a 50-minutes explanation of the backstory behind the song.

The storylines not bad...it's the sort of Christmas special that seems naggingly familiar, from the courtroom scene (Miracle on 34th Street) to the tycoon buying a locally run store (Gremlins 2). The animation is crude though, with a cookie-cutter feel to it. The producers apparently felt that we needed more songs by the same artist, all of which are lethargic one-verse ditties devoid of humor.

One thing I'll give credit to: The 'evil tycoon' at least is written by the books. But overall, this novelty of a video makes a better bookstop than anything else.

Grandma Spankenheimer has a small store in the middle of the city. Grandson Jake works with her along with the rest of the family. Cousin Mel is greedy and hates Grandma's generous ways. She is so desperate to sell the store to tycoon Austin Bucks that she is willing to sabotage Grandma's fruitcake recipe. Then the song happens and Santa runs over Grandma.

Writing a story to a novelty song is not usually recommended. They even double-down with more songs. Acting out the song is cringe-worthy. Everything after that is either annoying or boring. The animation is lower grade. Despite all that, I'm invested in finding Grandma if only to get to the end. It would be more daring and fun if Grandma actually was killed by Santa. Of course, that would be asking too much for this Christmas special wannabe.

I like a good novelty song. No, I take that back. I love a good novelty song. I absolutely despise GGROBAR on the other hand, and have from the first note I ever heard. When I found out someone had made a cartoon based on it, my head almost exploded. Now that I have seen it because my kids begged me, I wish my head had exploded. It would have saved me from the excruciating misery that was this cr@pfest. First of all, making an hour long show based on a three minute novelty song is a ridiculous idea. To stretch a song like this, which had to pad like crazy just to be that long, into an entire hour, is even more ludicrous. This was poorly written, cheaply animated, poorly acted...the list goes on and on. Dear God, is this ever bad.

This is supposedly a story in which a GROWN MAN tells a story about his youth. Yet, you see things like personal computers, e-mails, faxes, etc, which are items used in the late 20th Century and early 21st.

So when is this guy supposed to be telling this story - in 2020. Gee, I wonder how advanced we are then. How about telling us that.

Also, there are several legal issues which also make no sense. In the courtroom scene, the story falls into the usual pratfalls of surprise evidence, which is inadmissible in any real court of law in this country. Also, Grandma would have to be missing at least seven years in most states before to be declared officially dead.

Congratulations Elmo Shropshire. You are now officially a SELLOUT.

Horrid...Truly horrid. The movie revolves around some kid who, by then SHOULD HAVE outgrown Santa. His personality is completely one-dimensional and his catchphrase is "yeeeeeasssssssss!!!". his family isn't much better. Granny has an irritating voice and at least is mildly entertaining (but not much). The evil salesman and his ugly sidekick are both as cookie-cutter as you can get. Santa's nothing new, and grandpa looks like some ripoff of the Disney Gepetto. With that out of the way, I'll go on about the story.

Once again, Christmas is just some big spend-fest. Religion isn't mentioned ONCE. I grew up in a Christain family and went to a Christain school, and I can tell you, I do NOT like ChristiansBut I still respect them. You know why? Because they're just living the way that they see as right. Christmas is not about giving. It's not about getting. It's about the birth of Jesus and that is the way it is. Giving is just a tradition that commemorates the 3 gifts presented on that holy day. Santa thinks he can cancel a holiday just because some people don't acknowledge him. When he's found to be real, you'd think people would've been more surprised. So Christmas is portrayed as "Santa Day", celebrating some guy that doesn't exist.

The songs are bad. Too bad to talk even more about. And the acting is even worse. I don't even know how they got a few pros to do this chunk of crap. The story is just completely unoriginal and the jokes...That was the ONE THING that got unjust treatment. Had the jokes been in a different movie, they would've been pretty good. The animation...If you can call it that, looks like it wasn't even drawn by hand. The character's chins wouldn't move when speaking, the tongues looked terrible, it wasn't inbetweened. They didn't even get good artists! I could do better...And that's no exaggeration. I mean it. I'm 14 an I could draw AT LEAST 10 times better.Really. Stay away from this, at all costs.

Okay, so this is the 4th time I've watched this Christmas special in a row, the first time I enjoyed, same with the 2nd time, but the 3rd time, I started to notice some problems and now- pretty much the same.

I'll say the pros first, the voice acting was fine and the songs were okay, nicely paced, some the animation was fine, and it does have some charm, but that's kinda about it.

The cons is that the writing is pretty bad, the characters are kinda bland and basic, the story was pretty whack and dumb, some of the dialogue was corny, the animation was pretty choppy at time with some the voice not matching the mouths and looks very cheap, and while the songs were fine, they added nothing to the story and probably was added to just fill the movie.

Overall, at worst, it's mediocre, and at best, it's decent, it's definitely not as bad as some say, but objective, it's definitely not good. I do see this having a cult following tho and being in the so-bad-it's-good territory. I would still watch it every year cuz of what whacky it is, but it's definitely not that good, it's mostly mid to decent.

6/10.

Don't get me wrong, I love Christmas specials but I really disliked this one. This did have the ingredients for it to be at least charming, but so much let it down that my head was throbbing from hitting the wall countless times. The animation is very shoddy especially in the character designs, while the music is mostly awful. The incidental music is okay, but the songs were what irked me. Not only are the melodies forgettable and the lyrics trite, some of them don't fit with the story at all. The story is a great idea but badly told, and not helped by the poor pacing and terrible dialogue. Very few of the characters are likable either, and the voice acting ranges to decent to sub-par. So all in all, this was really quite bad, at least for me. 1/10 Bethany Cox

Thought this might be funny, but unfortunately this crummy movie is just shockingly sloppy in stereotypes, pathetic animation, terrible music and unlikable characters. It's difficult to explain how bad this is, or even what the supposed plot is (there's an evil cousin Mel who is trying to steal the store from the kind-hearted Grandma from the title song), but if you've made it through the first 10 minutes of this abortion of an animated special, you can figure out what's going to happen. Of course, if you can make it that far, you might want to make sure you are still alive and have not been banished to a netherworld of lousy television programming. This movie is inappropriate for children, and for anyone with good taste.