This movie is extremely cliché in all: not only the overused Christmas tropes but also Jake and his family. The animation style is very flawed. The drawing style is okay and well colored, but the animation lacks fluidity in many parts. The songs were laughable in the bad way, because they are just shoehorned and they don't contribute to the plot at all. And no, they are nor beautiful and there aren't good lyrics to compensate their gratuitous status.The plot is badly done, because they miss many things. In example, the time isn't enough to declare someone disappeared and Jake puts the people to taste a rotten fruitcake to prove Santa's innocence. There are many badly decided moments on this film. The Santa's idea also is poorly thought. Putting Grandma in his house? It would be far smarter to send her to a hospital. That way, all of Cousin Mel's gambit wouldn't happen. That is super idiotic and shows how weak is the storyline.Among the characters, no one is likable, relatable or interesting. At best, you can remember Cousin Mel and Grandma for being extremely attractive. Characters are too unbelievable, cliché and uninteresting to be memorable.The voice acting in general is decent, but Grandma's voice is beyond awful. She seems to have eaten helium and her voice is unbearable.This film is bad, but it can be kind of entertaining and you can laugh of the bad things of the film. It is watchable, at least.

Alright "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" is a classic novelty Christmas song that gets played every year on the the radio. I'm sure you've heard it by now, well that plot is the basis of this movie. So, stop me if you've heard this plot before. Corporate guy wants family owned store, grandmother won't sell, evil, greedy cousin wants to sell, but grandmother gets final say. Well one night on the way home the grandmother gets.... you guessed it ran over by one of Santa's reindeer. So for the whole movie the main kid...Jake Spanekhimer? Really? Has to find his missing grandmother to stop the evil cousin Mel from selling the store. But when he does find her at the north-pole shes lost her memory, then everyone is blames Santa an he get put on trial, no seriously they literally put him on trial and ready to convict him to prison before Jake solves the mystery...wow, basically the grandmother gets her memory back, finds out Mel put addictive deer food in the bag she was holding when she was hit by the reindeer, and then they just arrest her right there in the courtroom, she even steals the old "I would have gotten away with it, if it weren't for (blank)." The animation in this is bad the voice acting is cheap and the songs in this are horrible. But what disappoints me is the fact that it was directed by Phil Roman, the same man who directed several Peanuts TV specials and the producer of King of the Hill and The Critic. So, if your looking for a video to watch during the holidays I recommend something else. I give a 3/10 because believe it or not I've seen worse movies.

If we really want to get serious and find Osama Bin Laden, then we should take this stinker down to Gitmo and force the detainees to watch it. They'll be singing within minutes. Of course, I'm sure that making them watch this god-awful dreck violates the Geneva Convention in several ways. Look, my 5 year old daughter isn't allowed to watch TV at home. So take her to her grandparents or cousins and she's a little TV zombie. She got up and walked away after about ten minutes. That's how bad this is. You know, when the person responsible for this garbage was a young writer, I bet he or she had dreams of the great American novel. Now they have to look in the mirror every morning with the realization that they wrote what is possibly the worst hour of television in the history of the medium.And we wonder why the rest of the world hates us...

This is supposedly a story in which a GROWN MAN tells a story about his youth. Yet, you see things like personal computers, e-mails, faxes, etc, which are items used in the late 20th Century and early 21st. So when is this guy supposed to be telling this story - in 2020. Gee, I wonder how advanced we are then. How about telling us that.Also, there are several legal issues which also make no sense. In the courtroom scene, the story falls into the usual pratfalls of surprise evidence, which is inadmissible in any real court of law in this country. Also, Grandma would have to be missing at least seven years in most states before to be declared officially dead.Congratulations Elmo Shropshire. You are now officially a SELLOUT.