Thirteen years on I still refuse to watch it, in fact at Christmas I saw it was on the tv and nearly gave myself palpitations trying to find the remote to switch the channel as I hate it that much. Everything about the film is awful: the characters are expressionless and just plastic looking, the plot itself is about not believing in Christmas, even though the film was aimed at children.
But to really add to the lacking Christmas spirit in the film, there's a scene where one of the children ends up in a carriage full of these awful puppets shouting and grabbing at him and I'm still traumatised. 100% would not recommend this film to anyone.
TW