ABC Family, Insight Film Studios, Madacy Entertainment
Tom Arnold, Andrea Roth, Leslie Jordan, Brittney Wilson, Robert Clarke, Sarah-Jane Redmond, Benjamin Ayres, Juan Carlos Velis, Keith Dallas, Zak Ludwig, Jed Rees
Jack Cameron (Tom Arnold) hates Christmas. In fact, he’s banned it from his and his daughter’s wife. It’s because some years ago, his wife cheated on him with her dentist at their daughter’s school pageant. Switch to a heavenly place where the director is instruction the ghosts, present (Andrea Roth) and past (Leslie Jordan) that Jack is their newest contact. But they are not the Christmas ghosts of Charles Dickens. In fact, they are pretty angry with him because he was told never to tell anyone what happened, and he wrote a book about it and embellished it pretty good. I guess the ghosts go visit a lost soul every year for over 2000 years now and Dickens was the only one who broke the rules and wrote about it. Anyway, Christmas Past is getting really tired of going back to the past, and wants to be alive again, so he breaks the rules, and strands Jack back in his past, so present is sent to the past to find them and try to bring them home. Turns out that he doesn’t want to go back, and it turns into a brawl. If he doesn’t get back by midnight, he’ll cease to exist.
This modern take on the Christmas Carol story is a bit loony. The ghosts are normal people, and not at all like the traditional story goes. And things get all screwed up and twisted around in weird way. Since it’s Tom Arnold, it’s a bit silly. Ok, not a bit, it’s a lot silly. This is good, maybe for a single viewing, but it’s not something you’re going to watch again and again. As much as I love the Christmas Carol story, I just can’t get into this version. It was a nice try to freshen it and make it new again, but it’s just so stupid that it doesn’t cut it. I don’t recommend this, unless you’ve never seen it, and you’re a Tom Arnold fan.
This is a short segment showing the opening titles and the very beginning of the film:
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