Noelle 2019

Saving Christmas together? Oh, joy.

6.6 / 10   612 vote(s)
G
Family Comedy Fantasy

Kris Kringle's daughter, Noelle, sets off on a mission to find and bring back her brother, after he gets cold feet when it's his turn to take over as Santa.

Homepage https://disneyplusoriginals.disney.com/movie/noelle
Release Date 2019-11-12
Runtime 1h 40m
Directors Marc Lawrence, Russell Carpenter
Producers Suzanne Todd, Heather Meehan, John G. Scotti, Luca Borghese
Writer Marc Lawrence

Means well, but doesn't come out with anything memorable. I did enjoy Anna Kendrick in the role of 'Noelle', she keeps the film moving along fairly well. It's the humour and writing which is the issue.

The former is hit-and-miss, some of it lands but a lot of it doesn't - the running joke about the Apple product is lame. The latter, meanwhile, is pretty plain and predictable, there's nothing all that fresh about this - except the, bare minimum, positive message. The special effects aren't great either.

Fine for an Xmas watch, but nothing more unfortunately.

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