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I warmed up to "Better Watch Out" right away. The opening scene with Patrick Warburton and Virginia Madsen was pretty funny. The rest of the cast was also likeable. "Better Watch Out" does jerk a bit as it changes gears at one point but after a couple of minutes I was back on board. When all is said and done, I enjoyed this movie. Christmas horror movies are a genre that I'm becoming quite a fan of. There seems to be an endless supply of them. A lot, however, aren't so hot. They're usually pretty short (this one is only 89 minutes) so I'm willing to give any of them a shot. "Better Watch Out" ends up better than a lot of them.

I know "I'll Be Home for Christmas" has been around for twenty-six years now but I just got around to watching it. I always kind had a feeling that I've seen it before and didn't like it. I watched it today and it turns out that I never saw it before and it's actually a pretty funny movie. Sure, it gets a little silly at times but it never lost me. "I'll Be Home for Christmas" has a very likeable performance from Jonathan Taylor Thomas. Thomas' supporting cast is also appealing. I'm surprised by how much I enjoyed this movie. I'll be watching this one every year for a while. (I watched this movie on Roku.)

That's true. When I sat down to watch "How the Gringo Stole Christmas" I expected it to be really bad. I'm no fan of George Lopez. I've never liked his standup/sitcoms. But I have to admit, Lopez does a pretty good job in this movie. His Mexican Archie Bunker routine wears itself pretty thin sometimes but he also gets more than a handful of laughs. Now, I don't want to be mean but I have to mention that I was a little surprised by how Lopez looks. He's not an attractive man. He often looks like a Mexican version of Shemp Howard. His supporting cast scores pretty well on the likeability chart, especially the three homies, which helps the movie out quite a bit. As far as super low budget straight-to-video Christmas movies go, "How the Gringo Stole Christmas" isn't so bad.