This is a brilliant festive family film.
Its fun for all and can get you truly into the Christmas spirit. The film director and producer, Les Mayfield and John Hughes, have done an astonishing take on the 1947 and 1973 film and captured the special part of Christmas and the main part, the spirit of Christmas, as Santa, played by Richard Attenborough, takes on commercialism.The film starts off with Kris Kringle (also known as Santa) taking part in a new job as being himself in the big city of New York, throughout the film he has a series of challenges and problems he has to fix, including trying to make people believe which involves a 6 year old girl called Susan Walker, Mara Wilson. Its not a smooth ride for our Santa. The acting in the film is amazing from the main characters, Kris, Susan, Bryan (played by Dylan McDermott) and Dorey Walker (played by Elizabeth Perkins) with the music in the background making it more dramatic and a more gripping story.It brings out a range of emotions, which I think is a good thing because it’s not predictable.
You have people spying on Santa to try and take him down; it’s certainly an adventure. I would say in parts the acting wasn’t up to scratch for a few other characters, they weren’t realistic and brought the scene quality down. It also doesn’t help that one of the main parts of the film, trying to make Susan and Dorey believe, can sometimes be sidelined.However with that being sidelined there is something better going on which cancels out the fact that it’s being abandoned. I would certainly recommend this film.
It is definitely a heart-warming family film, it does contain a little bit of drunkenness but it does not have a bad outcome so it’s perfectly all right for kids. The production is well thought out and entertaining in every part.
