An Almost Christmas Story

The pluses.

Great Voice talent. All of them sounded good acted great, just right.

Nice vibe for the most part. In the delivery of the script.

The negatives.

Not really much of a story. The set up was ok, but then it didn't really go anywhere and nothing much happened, although as mentioned above it was delivered well.

The look. I didn't mind the owls but the human forms were creepy, for no reason. The characters did nothing creepy, there was no creepy required in the story, it was just shadowy lighting and dirty looking puppets, for no reason. Someone came up with the look independent of the story and crowbarred it in. Style over content as we're seeing far too often in film content these days.

We got to the end of the film and looked at each other and said, is that it? What was that about? Why did we watch it?

It wasn't bad, it just wasn't anything much either.