Noël

There's enthusiasm and then there's too much enthusiasm. The central character is a round, red Christmas ornament. He is sickeningly optimistic about everything. He slowly learns to understand Christmas. The hard part for me was that awful kid voice going on and on and on. There is also a syrupy kind of explanation of Christmas.

Possibly the best Christmas movie of our time. Includes a beautiful meaning with a awesome main character that you will actually love. It expresses the meaning of Christmas and how we can come together on such a fun day with friends and family. Noel is a great and diverse character who is extremely loveable and dynamic he is the cutest bean. Myself, Dev dog and lyssleberry all believe this is the best movie hands down. Many would agree that Noel is the heart and soul of my passion and love for Christmas.

I saw this Christmas special on television some years back, when I was younger. I haven't seen it again in its entire form since then. I managed to catch part of the ending recently this last holiday season, and it still looked wonderful to me. Unfortunately, I could not catch the whole thing a second time, but I still remember the movie as being fun, lovable, and cute for a children's film. It is about a cheerful Christmas ornament named Noel who has a happy feeling inside of him, and unlike other Christmas ornaments, he loves Christmas. Over many years, he befriends the many Christmas trees, the children who live in his home, and so on. It's a very nice and original idea that played itself out well. Bottom line, even if the movie doesn't appeal all that much to the older audience members, it appealed very well to at least one young child. And that was what it was meant to do. I still long to see it again.

Noel tells the tale of Christmas peace and magic that spanned 60 years (1932-1992) and he never lost his warmth.

Yet, it also tells how times change over the years-with glimpses of sadness as that is what time does. Despite the aging and and abandonment, Noel's merriment only grew-something that is rare as time chips away our own happiness.

I first saw this movie when I was 4 years old. MY father, having shared a love of Charlton Heston with his own mother in movies like "Ben Hurr" and "The 10 Commandments" recorded this movie for me on a battered VHS that already contained recordings of "Bambi" and "Beauty and the Beast". Red was my favorite color and I instantly fell in love with this adorable bouncing red ornament, I was so taken that my mother even hand painted me a red ornament to look just like Noel, oh how I cried the Christmas that got broken :( I would watch this movie religiously every Christmas until I was about 14 and we got a DVD player. Whatever happened to that old VHS I'm just not sure and when I became a mother I was heartbroken I wouldn't be able to share this much loved holiday movie with my own children. I was certain such an old and obscure little TV movie would impossible to find online but to my surprise and delight I did find it the sound is a bit off but being able to see this cherished childhood classic again and to share it with my boys is just Priceless :)