Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer

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.

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.

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.