The best G-rated holiday movie this year!

Rating: 10/10 (13 November 2004)

Awesome! After a flood of R rated or PG-13 rated movies lately, it's just a pleasant surprise to see a movie with a G rating that still keeps the audience interested. Especially a movie based upon such a holiday-based classic story. Having read the book thousands of times to the attentive young children on the local tourist train, I am quite familiar with the story background. It's nice to see that the movie maintained the storyline while sensationalizing, or filling in the gaps. After all, it takes 5 minutes to read the book aloud. So to go from 5 minutes to an hour and 40 minutes, that's a lot of filler! When you watch this movie though, you have to keep in mind that it's a dream. The train scene does get a bit wild, but it's just an illusion played by the young boy's imagination. Definitely take the kids to see this movie! I still hear the sleigh bell! :-)