On Saturday, after Thanksgiving, our family continued one of our most favorite Christmas Kick-off Traditions. We watched Christmas Vacation, a movie we will watch several more times between now and Christmas day; a movie whose lines have become oft repeated catch phrases - whenever we are surprised ("If I woke up tomorrow morning with my head sewn to the carpet, I wouldn’t be more surprised than I am right now") or unhappy ("It's Christmas and we're all in misery") or talking about a job ("He's been holding out for a management position"). We just love this movie, probably because we can identify with the Griswolds.
Since then we have watched The Santa Clause, The Santa Clause 2 and The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause. We like trilogies, happy endings and we really like Tim Allen.
These are the movies we will be watching from now until Christmas Day:
The music in the first movie is really good. Watching Kevin triumph over Marv and Harry is a blast. We do not watch #3 here. Since it is not the same characters, what is the point?
This is my Dear Husband's all-time favorite. "You'll shoot your eye out" is heard often here, no matter the season.
I love to sing along with this one.
Last year, we took the Great Smoky Mountain Railroad Polar Express Trip. It was delightful! I still can't decide which was better, the smile on Caleb's face or the look on Micah's when Santa gave Caleb the bell! Sadly, we did not get our Polar Express book autographed by Santa; maybe next time!
The original version always makes me cry. And who can resist Veggie Tales anything?!
And the classics:
While Jim Carrey is an okay Grinch, the original is far better. "You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch!"
The 60s were great for turning out the Christmas Classics and Rankin/Bass did a great job with them!
"I'm Mister Heat Miser, I'm Mister Sun." Enough said!
This website has a pretty extensive list of Christmas movies, some with reviews. I know my list is missing some other non-anmiated classics but, surprisingly, I haven't watched those, yet. My Dear Husband says we need to add Arthur Christmas to our list and maybe this year we will.
Next week, I'll be discussing some of our favorite Christmas books!
We watched Elf and The Grinch That Stole Christmas this weekend.
ReplyDeleteAwesome Post!!! You've captured the Evans/Lawrence Christmas to the letter! "Is it time yet? Is it time I can't wait!..."
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