Watch The Best Family Christmas Movies To Get In The Mood For The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year!

Oh, my goodness! Of course, Christmas would always be Christmas because it is the day that Christ was born, but I think I would feel like I was missing something if I didn’t watch this movie at least once sometime during the season.

Starring Michael Caine as Mr. Scrooge and supported by a cast of familiar Muppet characters, this movie is a spectacular display of music, dancing and fun while still keeping in the true spirit of the story. 

This heartwarming story will bring joy to children and adults alike! Definitely one of the best family Christmas movies that will become a must-watch in your home.

We were pleasantly surprised by this film we found on PureFlix. It made us really realize that A Christmas Carol still is the best story because, after all the Christmas stories that have been told, it is the one that continues to reappear again and again through many variations. This was one such variation.  

Jake Young goes about the Christmas season thinking that, although it is fun, it is just another holiday like all others, plus presents. 

It isn’t until he gets in a skateboarding accident that brings him to the side of the manger on the first Christmas night and experiences what a winter where Christmas isn’t celebrated is like that he understand the true importance of Christmas.

This inspires him to keep Christmas, like Scrooge in the old story, in his heart and outwardly. This movie had singing and dancing and was highly entertaining despite sometimes being rather abrupt.

It has been said that during the golden age of cinema, Jewish movie makers followed the decency standards set forth by Catholic bishops to make movies for a largely Protestant audience. 

Ben-Hur is a gem from this golden era! Starring Charleston Heston, this movie takes place during the years of Our Lord's birth and on through His death, but it is not a story about Our Lord.

It is the story about Judah Ben-Hur and how Our Lord's coming changed his life. An epic starring Charleston Heston. Enough said!

Read the full Ben-Hur review here...

There was nothing explicitly wrong with Buttons: A Christmas Tale, it could have even been a cute Christmas movie, but there were a few things that made it rather painful to watch.

The movie follows a young orphan girl who is picked up by the nuns and brought to a hospital.

When the girl awakes, an elderly lady reads her a fairytale to cheer her up. The movie then flashes between the fairytale and the girl’s reactions. 

In the fairytale, Dick van Dyke plays the role of another young girl’s angel as she goes through her many misfortunes, always appearing when she needs a cheering up.

After many misfortunes leaves the young girl almost destitute and nearly drowned, her angel saves her and places her in the path of a wealthy family mourning the loss of their youngest daughter. This family, the Brownings, takes her in and all her troubles are as nought in the Christmas miracle.

Although there was mention of guardian angels protecting at all times and everyone was at church on Christmas Eve, there was no mention of Christmas being the birthday of Christ. 

On another note, the story line was not very strong. It would have been much more satisfying if there had been a little more development with the family that took the little girl in and had some sort of vindication with the villains of the story getting their dues.

Instead, as a viewer, I would have liked to get to know the Brownings a little better and would have been happier if the girl’s horrible aunt had somehow been defeated. 

The one thing that really took me out of the narrative and actually made this a pretty bad Christmas movie was the transitions. Many fade outs and fade to blacks with color changes before the transition made the editing feel jarring. There was a little singing and dancing, but it felt rather disjointed. As far as the score goes, the music was not bad.

Although, I must say, the kids enjoyed it and didn't notice that there was anything lacking in it.