Just charming . It is the fair definition of this film about roots of Christmas gifts tradition.
It is charming, first, for Maggie Smith and Jim Broadbet and for Toby Jones.
It is charming for the truths and for the flavor of old fairy tales, so fresh, so soft, so bitter and wise.
It is charming for the adorable end.
Bad points - easy to say the political correctness not elegant deep traces. Or the ignore, again, of the simple, real significance of feast of Nativity . Or to ignore Saint Hierarch Nicholas.
But... .
The young Henry Lawfull is just good worker for a nice Nicholas. And the film is not , exactly , for children but more for inner child of parents. The cultural references is the basic proof.
Yes, I like it.
For actors, humor, inspired portrait of sacrifice for loved one and lost of parent.
And, not doubts, for Maggie Smith. Her presence in cast was, I admitt, the first and powerful kick to see this film.
