My whole family hated it and we are movie lovers

Rating: 2/10 (24 December 2012)

I gave it a 2 because the animation is novel. Otherwise, it is a 1 all the way.
Even though I thought the animation was kind of cool, I have to ask why you would animate a movie and try to make it photo-realistic. Why not just use live actors? The characters, all of them, were not real likable. The story was materialistic and lacked soul. It almost seemed like the voice actors were trying to be cool....and do a "classic".
In fact, before we went to the movie to see it, I had indeed been told hundreds of times it is "destined to be a classic" in self serving commercials. When it came on TV and I asked my daughter if she wants to watch it, she groaned and asked if she HAD TO! THAT is bad!
This movie belongs on the heap with "A Christmas Story" and "Santa Buddies". All destined to be classically horrible movies!
For those of you saying people who don't like this are scrooge or have no Christmas spirit, I ask how Christmas spirit makes a bad movie good?