From Someone Whom Didn't Grow Up On It . . .

Rating: 9/10 (5 December 2019)

I love this movie. I've been watching it every December for nearly five years, now, and I can't believe I didn't watch this when I was a kid. It's so much fun, and so childish (in a good way).
I didn't believe the hype for this movie, when it came out. I wasn't much a fan of Ferrel, at the time (hadn't seen The Good Guys or Talladega Nights, yet), and so I didn't have an interest to see the flick. But Jon Favreau made it (the director of Iron Man-as well as the parent of the MCU). My intrigue began there, and I finally saw it. Loved it ever since.
The cast is fantastic. The music choice is fantastic. The colorfulness of the film is fantastic. The wit of this script is so perfect.
Now I'm still trying to get my own family to watch the film, since we all love Christmas movies.
To see something so creative be released in the early 2000s is still shocking, to me. Favreau just seems to continue to make classic after classic, in American culture.