This film was HORRIBLE!!!

Says the Transformers hipster, smh. This movie is pretty good.

Bruce Lee was real. Batman was never real.

I love One Magic Christmas. First saw it as a kid and have loved it ever since. Polar Express was boring and dull. Even the kids I watched it with couldn't make it to the end it was so boring. I really question someone's movie op for favoring such a cheesy movie over this great one.

I wouldn't call it horrible. It tried to tell a good story, and it had a nice, heartwarming ending. But I DID get mad at it, yelling at the screen many times during the entire ridiculous "my husband and maybe kids are dead" nonsense.

I get they were trying to go for their own take on the "It's a Wonderful Life" type of "What if she didn't have her family, maybe then she'd realize how lucky she is to have them" theme. But I don't think they needed to go QUITE where they did, it got very dark there for a bit. And the whole angel/santa/letter bit just added to how convoluted it felt.

But I still wouldn't call it a bad movie. Just a messy one.

People loved the film because it was a lesson in appreciating what you have, rather than hating the world because things didn't go your way. It even has a Christian allegory, if you know where to look buried in the writing. Like Ginny was worthy of saving from her own misery.

Plus, people really only watch the movie for three things: the cute kids, the Santa scenes, and the part after Ginny puts the letter in the mailbox and gets her husband back, and she celebrates Christmas with her family.

The plot have been seen as downbeat and depressing but I still think its a good movie.

I'll admit that before the time-warp scene, where Ginny actually brings her husband back by mailing her daughter's letter to Santa; the film stinks. But the problem is, if you watch only half the film, none of it makes sense. You don't learn to appreciate why Ginny has a change of heart, or why things went better the next time the same day played out.

And yeah, they left the ending very ambiguous, forcing you to use your imagination on what happened to the family after Christmas.

The difference being in One Magic Christmas the little girl Abby visits the North Pole and the Santa is probably the most authentic Santas Ive ever seen on film and you'd think he was real. One Magic Christmas is a great movie.