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Our whole family loves this movie and we watch it every year. Thoughtful yet accessible. It has the usual arc such as we see in many stories, including that other Christmas classic, It's A Wonderful Life, with main character spiralling down and then realizing important truths about people and society, but in a way it is more complicated than IAWL. It isn't simple to match up this or that character or happening with a certain lesson we're supposed to learn, but that is really a simplistic way to understand a movie. In this story, the characters around Dickens in this reflect different facets of his character and his revelation is that although you can never get away from any of them, it's up to us which ones we let dictate our behavior. You should watch it, it's great.

We watch this show every Christmas season, one of only a few must-sees. The plot is cute, the characters might be taken as simplistic, but they have unique eccentricities, and the songs slap! Christmas monkey? ...awesome. Do fish know that it is Christmas? ...a classic the kids break out with year round. You won't be able to get them out of your head. The chair in the tree bit is fun, the messes George gets into are creative and well played, distinctive animation. Who knew you could get pathos from a cartoon monkey. There are Easter eggs referencing other Christmas shows. Seriously, this is a joy.