La abuela fue arrollada por un reno

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.

"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.

Alright, listen. This special is all over the place. It's awkwardly animated (to say the least), the story is weakly fashioned around a satirical Christmas song (and is more filler than genuine, holly-jolly entertainment), the voice acting is subpar, and, at 51 minutes, it's way too long. But all those things are what make this ridiculous little movie so endearing. It's something I would watch as a kid and enjoy, if for nothing more than the simple story and jokes. It was a little too long to hold my attention throughout, even then, but it still had something special about it that kept me coming year after year. Now, it's good for the fun factor of it. You can't put this on expecting to see A Charlie Brown Christmas-level of quality, because that's just not it. When taken for that it is (a quick attempt for Warner Bros. to cash in on the hit Dr. Elmo song), it offers just enough to give a little holiday cheer. Shoehorning in a bunch of cuts off Dr. Elmo's Christmas record of the same name, it makes for some of the most awkward, inappropriately inserted musical numbers, perhaps, in this history of animated movies. It's worthy of countless razzies and that's why I love it.

Grandma Spankenheimer has a small store in the middle of the city. Grandson Jake works with her along with the rest of the family. Cousin Mel is greedy and hates Grandma's generous ways. She is so desperate to sell the store to tycoon Austin Bucks that she is willing to sabotage Grandma's fruitcake recipe. Then the song happens and Santa runs over Grandma.

Writing a story to a novelty song is not usually recommended. They even double-down with more songs. Acting out the song is cringe-worthy. Everything after that is either annoying or boring. The animation is lower grade. Despite all that, I'm invested in finding Grandma if only to get to the end. It would be more daring and fun if Grandma actually was killed by Santa. Of course, that would be asking too much for this Christmas special wannabe.

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.