Casper's Haunted Christmas

Rating:
Summary: Worst Animated Movie Award
Review: Let me start by saying that I greatly enjoyed the original Casper movie that preceded this one. I have watched it countless times and both my kids (age 6 and age 4) love it. As such, I had high hopes for this particular movie, but should have followed my instincts when I saw that it was a fully animated film. After only 10 minutes, my daughter kept asking me if/when the movie was over, and I had to painfully sit through the next hour and 13 minutes to see it through the end. Wimpy story line, mediocre animation, horrible humor, extremely annoying characters, a complete and total disaster. Not worth the recyclable material that it is made out of.

Rating:
Summary: Worst Animated Movie Award
Review: Let me start by saying that I greatly enjoyed the original Casper movie that preceded this one. I have watched it countless times and both my kids (age 6 and age 4) love it. As such, I had high hopes for this particular movie, but should have followed my instincts when I saw that it was a fully animated film. After only 10 minutes, my daughter kept asking me if/when the movie was over, and I had to painfully sit through the next hour and 13 minutes to see it through the end. Wimpy story line, mediocre animation, horrible humor, extremely annoying characters, a complete and total disaster. Not worth the recyclable material that it is made out of.

Rating:
Summary: Interesting
Review: Storywise it wasn't bad. It was kind of nice to see a new Casper Movie especially with Spooky and Poil in it. If It wasn't for the fact that it was done entirely with Computer Graphics Interactive I think it would have rated a little higher. The CGI bit though took away from it especially since Casper, Casper a Spirited Beginning, and Casper Meets Wendy were all Live Action. I have a feeling that everything could have been done Live Action

Rating:
Summary: An OK Kids Movie
Review: Well here we have a cross-breeding of holidays as the ghostly Casper, normally associated with Halloween, stars in his very own Christmas special.

Casper gets in trouble with the King of the Ghosts, when he fails to meet his quota of scaring at least one person a year. He is charged with scareing someone by Christmas Day or be sent to the Dark ( a kind of ghost purgatory, I guess). Casper and his uncles (The Ghostly trio) are sent to a town that is made up of the most joyous, Christmas-y folks in the world. Casper befriends Holly Jollimore, a young girl who prefers Halloween to Christmas, and is as out of place in the town. The Ghostly Trio have recruited Spooky, Casper's cousin, to impersonate him and pull off a scare.

This is a completely computer animated feature ala Finding Nemo, etc... although it's nowhere near the quality of a Pixar film. Still, it's not bad and is actually better than a lot of 3D animation I have seen. The ghosts look truly ghostly.

Making a decent family feature is difficult, because it must strike a balance between being something kids will like but intelligent enough for adults to also enjoy. Scenes that copy or parody a host of Christmas specials including It's a Wonderful Life, The Grinch that Stole Christmas, and Frosty the Snowman along with some "borrowing" from The Three Stooges and Duck Soup at least give adults something to point at and understand.

Not a bad feature but no classic



Rating:
Summary: Haunting Greatness!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: When spectral leader Kibosh thinks Casper's been slacking at scaring, he sends the releculant, friendly ghost on a mission to frighten someone on Christmas Eve.