A Christmas Story Christmas
Ralphie is now all grown up and must deal with Christmas and all that comes with it…as a dad.
- Released: 2022-11-17
- Runtime: 120 minutes
- Genre: Comedy, Family
- Stars: Peter Billingsley, Erinn Hayes, Zack Ward, Julie Hagerty, Mark Arnold, Scott Schwartz, R.D. Robb, Julianna Layne, Ian Petrella, River Drosche, J.R. Esposito, Chris Jarman, Sam Parks, Henry Miller, Ian Porter, Owen Davis, Derek Morse, Davis Murphy
- Director: Clay Kaytis
Comments
- mrturk182 - 17 June 2024
As Faithful As You Can Get to Both the Source Material and the Holiday It Celebrates
What A Christmas Story Christmas gets right the most is that it peels back the layers one at a time to reveal the core message of the story. Christmas can mean many things for a kid, but when you become the parent, you look at the holiday from a different perspective. It's basically your turn to provide the Christmas experience to your kids the same way your parents did for you. There are years when it's not a very easy task, but you have to express it from your heart every time. That's exactly how this sequel plays out. It's not as great as the first film and is not an instant classic, but it doesn't need to be. Once you get past the nostalgic callbacks from the first movie as well as the feeling of your own past Christmases in general, you discover the gift that this follow-up has to offer, which comes from the heart and has its own original message. - janetch - 19 December 2023
A lovely blend of new story, flashbacks, and nostalgia
Is it perfect? No, of course not, probably because we all had our own picture of what would make the ideal sequel. But it was lovely, enjoyable, and entertaining. All of the original characters who could came back did so. Peter Billingsley did an incredible job of being the adult Ralphie.
It would have been cool had the parents both been able to return, of course, but since Darren McGavin had passed on and Melinda Dillon was too ill (she died just 2 months after the movie came out), it was not meant to be. Julie Hagerty did a reasonable job of portraying Ralphie's mom.
This movie has now become an annual tradition along with the original. Together they are my favorite Christmas movie/story.
