I'm going to make sure to watch this holiday film annually whenever I can find it. I won’t really criticize it or heap excessive praise upon it, though. The storytelling holds up well, and the group of actors involved perform adequately. Its frequent remakes are a testament to its enduring appeal; I don’t intend to draw comparisons with those other adaptations. As one comic strip put it, “The floot-floot did a boom-boom on the jim-jam.” That's just another way of saying things are what they are.

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