Highly Overrated But Still Good

Boring

An Exercise In Nonsense

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Extremely well thought out, scripted, and CGI'd (acted)? There are reindeer that look they are on steroids, an extremely well organized elf force that oversees Santa's prelaunch then the actual launch and then directing Santa through weather fair and foul to the kid's house's (Air Force eat your heart out):). The main character is Wayne a long time Prep and landing elf. His job is to go to kid's houses and prepare for Santa's landing. When he doesn't get the promotion he thought he was, he get's a bad attitude. This leads to a kid waking up and seeing them at work but here some of the great thinking shows up, they have a forget it ornament that causes the people who get hit to forget. Learning his lesson Wayne guides Santa and his sleigh to the house through some weather that almost caused a "figgy pudding", a bypass of the house. So every thing turns out well, Wayne gets offered a promotion but turns it down to stay with P&L. There is humor here for kid's and grown ups and I thoroughly enjoy this one every Christmas time.

Prep & Landing is an elite group of elves that prepare the house for Santa's arrival. Wayne (Dave Foley) is an arrogant member of the group who expects a new promotion. However his partner Peterson is the one who gets the promotion. He gets a new clueless talkative rookie partner Lanny. He's lost the Christmas spirit and lets Lanny go solo. It doesn't go well when little Timmy wakes up to find the elves. Hyper Magee at operations decides to skip Timmy. Wayne rallies to get Santa to Timmy's house.It's always nice to have new blood rather than the same old same old. It takes the familiar regimented elves and given them a fast talking edge. It's fun. Wayne is a bit of a downer for most of the show but he ends in a happy place. That's what a Christmas special needs. It needs to bring the holiday joy and this does that with a good message.

My family and I found this short film in error whilst trying to find a Christmas film to watch and what a find. This is now a family Christmas tradition, we now have to watch this to get into the Christmas spirit. The storyline is original and fun with content for kids and adults alike. The animation is brilliantly done as you would expect from a Disney Production and as it is only on for about 20 minutes, you can always squeeze it in. This is the story of one of Santa's helpers that thinks he has been passed by for promotion and ends up with a new partner he isn't happy with and as it is a Christmas film, of cause, it all goes well in the end. There are loads of Christmas references squeezed in which always raises a smile from my wife and I. A must see.

It captured the essence of a great Christmas special without finding the pitfalls of so many other recent Christmas movies. It is contains a great deal of technological references with analogs of NASA and naval terminology and procedures, but it doesn't take the magic out of Santa. There is no attempt at explaining Santa's abilities with special engines or "Clausometers," it shows the realistic and humorous backline of Santa's huge operation. Like any great Christmas movie it has a perfectly Christmas-spirit ending that makes you feel more like a perfect you. Hilarious,touching, exciting, and it has a ton of historical, pop-cultural, and technological references. We are watching it a second time! We loved it!