julienicholson-12168

Lazy writing, very predictable and I love a predictable Christmas 'daytime' movie, but this was beyond appalling. Beano acted like some sort of demented imbecile, the head teacher was such a bitch she was not at all realistic and the big boss was so thoroughly unlikable that her business would have gone bust many years ago. Obvious city guy has to shout at locals for riding their horse on country lanes, kids have to wear swimming goggles and fairy wings because they are from such a bohemian family.

Not one likeable character. Weak story, not worth battling beyond the first 30 minutes.

I was so disappointed as I thought I'd found a terrific British Christmas movie. If this is the best on offer then I'd rather cr@p in my hands and clap.

I was hoping to have found the next 'Nativity' but sadly disappointed.

This is a wonderful story, it has tremendous graphics, the art work is truly awesome. Sadly the voice artists are mostly dreadful and all I kept hearing was "gor blimey Mary Poppins" as dreadful accent and truly dreadful accent continued to grate on my nerves! Sadly a potentially 5star film demoted to 1and half stars, purely because they used really nasty voice actors.

If you're going to use an American or New Zealand actor, don't have them use a mock cockney accent. There was no need for such dreadful accents.

Otherwise a lovely family movie, I genuinely laughed at the "Bollox" reference, clearly film makers had no clue but it was subt, quick funny and not worth dismissing.