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Summary: How can you not like this movie?
Review: Every year for the past 17 years, I have sat down with my family to enjoy this film. Every year, this movie gets better and better. How can you not like it? Told from the point of view of Ralphie, this film looks at Christmas from a child's perspective. It shows just how strange the world can be sometimes, and just how difficult it can be to grow up. Parents, bullies, and various other situations pop up during Ralphie's quest for a BB gun for Christmas. It really makes you remember how Christmas was when you were a kid,and despite all the quirks and discrepancies, how wonderful it is to have a family around during that time of year. A great film that has become a great family tradition.
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Summary: Great Christmas movie
Review: You are wrong about the profanity. The only real single swear word comes after Ralphie decyphers the secret message from the radio. All the "cursing" done by the dad is gibberish meant to represent profanity, but it's not real. That's why it's funny. And then there's the tire-changing incident, which is a humorous send-up of profanity in the home. Lighten up, folks. This movie rocks.
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Summary: a christmas story
Review: any one who can't overlook the mild profanity....which, in reality is never verbalized (it's all implied! ! ! !)probably doesn't know how to laugh anymore...too much holiday stress maybe? a christmas story is an INNOCENT tale of hope...one i gladly, happily share with my children and look forward to sharing with their children.
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Summary: A Christmas Story
Review: I have to agree whole heartedly with Jamie. This is the worst Christmas Movie I have seen. The profanity ruins it. It's a 1940's film with 1990's movie profanity. If you have children under the age of 10, you need to be aware. The father is mean. The are two prolonged scenes where a bully makes another boy put his tongue on a metal pole and another where Ralphie fights with him. And to top it off the Santa and his elves are mean. There is not an uplifting feeling throughout this movie....
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Summary: Get the Two-Disc Special Edition, not the old 1-disc release
Review: *** Edited 2003-12-18: ***
I love this movie. My initial (1-star) review was in the year 2000, for the lousy old 1-disc release, which had horrible picture quality. Don't get that one! But the new "Two-Disc Special Edition" DVD set of this movie is very good, get that one!!
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Summary: A True Christmas Classic "Loosen up Jamie"
Review: This DVD will be a Christmas classic for years to come. It depicts the 1940's to perfection, right down to the porridge served up by Mom. This is a timeless depiction of a kid's ultimately fulfilled wish for that special gift at Christmas. His parents, brother and other characters are hilarious. Several of the scenes such as the unplanned Christmas dinner at the Chinese restaurant are belly aching, tear producing fun. The final scene with the lighted tree and heavy snow falling with a period Christmas carol in the background is how we fondly remember Christmas at home. Come on Jamie, loosen up and enjoy!
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Summary: Too funny to be nostalgic
Review: I went to see this movie because CROSS CREEK, which was supposed to be the big holiday movie of 1983, was sold out. I finally ran into CROSS CREEK on television a few years ago. The photography was very nice.Actually, the photography in this film is quite nice as well. But the reason I remember the film is the way that it takes the basic stuff of childhood (the viciousness of your best friends, the intrinsic annoying-ness of you siblings, the trench warfare that parents and chilren and husbands and wives wage on a daily basis) and tweaks it just enough to make it funny. There isn't a plot as such--little Ralphie Parker dreams of getting a Red Ryder BB-gun for Christmas, and this is the thread on which Bob Clark (who also directed) and Jean Shepherd (on whose novel IN GOD WE TRUST--ALL OTHERS PAY CASH the film is based) string a series of vignettes about Ralphie's friends and family, from poor Flick getting his tongue stuck to a frozen pole to Mom "accidentally" breaking the woman's-leg lamp that Dad won in a contents and insists on displaying in the front window. The film is also helped by the pitch-perfect casting; Darren McGavin as The Old Man, all raging, frustrated id, Melinda Dillon as Mother, a sweet, rational woman in general, but given to moments of eccentric outrage, and Peter Billingsly as Ralphie--a marvelous combination of unaffected youthfulness and shrewd comic timing (you can believe that this kid would grow up to be somebody smart like Jean Shepherd). And best of all, despite the wonderful period details in the sets and costumes, this isn't a nostalgic film; the script and the performances always cut the sugar with plenty of vinegar--which makes the whole thing that much tastier . . .
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Summary: A Classic Christmas Movie
Review: I watch this every christmas. It is hilarious. More of an adult christmas movie, kids will not get some of the humor. Especially between the parents.
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Summary: Jamie-you're OFF BASE!
Review: Personally I think this is the antithesis of how a child feels about Christmas! And being from a child's point of view, why it is precious! It never failed, whatever I wanted my parents, teachers, etc, etc, etc thought it was unnecessary or just plain out dangerous. The first time I saw this movie, I was skeptical. My mother told me I'd love it and anytime she tells me that, I usually squirm away in horror. But she was right! This movie makes me belly laugh about so many things! And Flick... What a dunderhead! Who'd put his tongue on a frozen flagpole! I love the whole movie down to the Bumpass's dogs and the stolen Turkey episode to the "Butterfinger" to the gruesome Santa! And that teacher makes Cruella DeVille look like a saint!
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Summary: A Christmas Story
Review: This movie captures the spirit of Christmas from a child's point of view better than any other book or movie I've ever come across. My family and I watch it every year, and I love to give it as a gift.
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