It wasn't as bad as a movie as all these people say. Go read reviews from somewhere you can actually purchase it. Funny I've watched moves critics said were great and they sucked. Watched ones they said sucked and they were good. I dont believe this is about that though, it appears most of the horrible reviews are just anti Christians. Really is sad. I wouldn't of given it ten stars honestly, but after all I read here got to balance the scales of the Christian haters.

After reading the bad reviews, I was very surprised by the movie. It was a quasi-documentary showing how the regular trappings of Christmas all point to Jesus in the end. It had a lot of humor to it and gave me a lot to think about. Kirk Cameron is the narrator and brother in law of a grumpy Christian who looks at all that goes on at Christmas and can not see anything that has any thing to do with the coming of Christ. The brother in law sets him straight in an imaginative way.

It would have been better to have shown this movie on television on a religious network. But even then, the ratings would have been terrible. Only the most die-hard fundamentalist trying to squeeze a Christian meaning out of every Christmas symbol would have liked this movie. The only Xmas show I've seen that's worse than this is the Star Wars Holiday Special (on YouTube), which has never been re-broadcast since 1978 or released on home video.Christian, Kirk's brother-in-law, is complaining about how so many of the symbols of Christmas, most notably Christmas trees, are not biblical in origin. Kirk, in his revisionism, goes way out on a limb to deny the pagan origins of the symbols and traditions of Christmas. He tells Christian that Christmas trees were God's idea, since he made the trees. He also says that each tree represents a Christian cross. Christian then starts complaining about Santa Claus. He sees Santa as replacing Jesus and notices that "Santa" and "Satan" have the same letters -- what a stretch. But Kirk tells him that the original Santa Claus was actually Saint Nicholas -- who in actuality was one of several sources for the character. Kirk ends his lecture be saying that the presents under the tree represent the buildings of New Jerusalem. The last 15-20 minutes are partying, eating, and bloopers.A conspiracy theorist, meanwhile, is complaining about the removal of public manger scenes, and says they're be removed to Area 52, which he says is similar to Area 51.Kirk's brother-in-law's real name, by the way, is John Ridenour. His name Christian in the movie is probably meant to represent Christians disappointed about the non-religious symbols of Christmas. Christian at one point says, "It's like a car-jacking of our religion!" This is probably a hint that Kirk, along with some Christians, doesn't like the loss of Christian dominance over the holiday season.Kirk's response to the failure of his movie was to blame it on a massive atheist conspiracy. Some people just don't like criticism. When they can't debate their opponents, they demonize them.If you want a good show about Christmas, I highly recommend History Channel's "Christmas Unwrapped: The History of Christmas." It provides an excellent history of the symbols and traditions of the holiday, and shows the different views of it. "Saving Christmas" is at the opposite end of the spectrum.

Never before have I seen a movie this boring in my life. There's nothing interesting going on. All this film is is just Kirk being preachy about what Christmas is all about, uninteresting dialogue, and philosophies that drag on for too long.The acting is garbage. Everyone is either annoying, bland, or even unintentionally hilarious.There is not much effort into the production value as most of the movie takes place in either the car or the house.The writing is also awful. Apparently, Christain is a jerk and he is ruining Christmas for everyone even though he never publicly said to anyone (aside from Kirk) that he hated Christmas. He just simply hid away from the party.Overall this film stands as one of the worst I have ever seen. I can only recommend this film to true masochists. Everyone else, stay away from this movie.