Top 10 Christmas Films
24 December 2009
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Christmas isn’t complete without the usual dose of festive film time so each year crimbo classics are repeated on our screens to get us all in the mood for snow, miracles and Santa.
Family adventure runs wild at Christmas and we have witnessed everything from a dead dad that turns into a snowman in Jack Frost to women who swap lives in the Holiday.
Mentioning no names there are Christmas films both old and new that you would never want to find in your stocking but more often than not most of them leave you feeling merry and you immediately find yourself reaching for the mince pies.
It is no easy task but at Female First we have somehow managed to narrow it down to the top 10 Christmas films of all time.
1.The Muppet Christmas Carol
Released in 1992
Director: Brian Henson
In this film the Muppets re-tell Charles Dickens’ family fantasy ‘A Christmas Carol’. Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy and Fozzie are some of the characters that have got together with actor Michael Caine, who plays Ebenezer Scrooge, to create the musical.
The plot is based around Scrooge, a money-lender who dislikes Christmas. He refuses to let his staff have time off at Christmas and as a result he is visited by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come.
These ghosts delve into the life of Scrooge, they reminisce about his youth, show him how families celebrate at Christmas time and remind him about the way his own family spent the festive period.
It is the Ghost of Yet to Come that finally convinces Scrooge to change his unenthusiastic attitude towards Christmas. They take him to the future and he is shown that when he passes away people are not saddened by the event. People are glad to see the back of him and do not wish to celebrate his life.
Scrooge vows to embrace the Christmas spirit from then on and wakes on Christmas day to spread good deeds and charity.
Although the film is centred around a human being, the Muppets add humour to the film, something which makes it stand out against the countless number of other Christmas Carol adaptations.
2.Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
Released in 1992
Director: Chris Columbus
‘Yikes, I did it again!’ Producing a sequel is risky since everyone’s natural instinct is to compare but luckily for director Chris Columbus, Home Alone 2 was a raging success.
The family Christmas comedy is based around a 10-year old boy called Kevin McCallister who finds himself alone in New York after boarding the wrong flight and getting separated from his family.
For Kevin, spending Christmas in New York City is a dream come true so whilst his family are stranded in Florida worried sick about his well-being, he books himself in to top hotel ‘The Plaza’ using his dad’s credit card.
The award winning adventure once again features Harry and Marv, formally known as the ‘wet-bandits,’ who are hatching a plan to rob ‘Duncan’s Toy Chest.’ On their travels they bump into Kevin, who in Home Alone 1 captured them using various booby traps and shopped them to the Police.
The terrifying bandits immediately aim to seek revenge but once again clever Kevin constructs a ‘not so fun house’ and the self-titled ‘sticky-bandits’ find themselves out-smarted.
Kevin is a loveable mischievous child who on the road to beating the bullies comes across a pigeon lady, toy shop owner and snooping hotel porters.
Like in almost every other Christmas film Kevin has a happy ending; he is safely reunited with his family just in time to open a mountain of presents at the hotel.
Originally the plot synopsis may not seem Christmassy but the soundtrack, which includes songs such as ‘Jingle Bell Rock’ and ‘It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas’, Christmas trees and shopping chaos on the snowy streets of New York create a festive vibe.
3.Miracle on 34th Street
Released in 1994
Director: Les Mayfield
In this family drama another child that does not believe in Santa is given something to believe in after meeting a man convinced he is the real Santa Claus.
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