A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa

Dir: Kirk R. Thatcher

2008

****

I've said it before and I'll say it again; It wouldn't be Christmas without the Muppets, not for me anyway. However, you can't just watch The Muppet's Christmas Carol every year, they've made so many Christmas specials over the years, there really is plenty to choose from and most of it is of genuine quality. They are now even more popular thanks to their 2011 movie and 2015 TV series, quite rightly too, but I never gave up on them and even though this is not their greatest outing (or their greatest Christmas special) it's still very good. Sure, I'd happily watch them stand still for an hour but there is enough of their character and their humour to see beyond the typical Disney Christmas schmaltz that is also on display. To be even more honest, the 10 minute + out take reel is better than the film itself and worth watching alone for but it's all good and very, very funny.