A New York cabbie, in order to distract young girl passengers, tells them a story of another passengers, a young lad who loses his dog, at which point New Yorkers at Christmas come to the rescue, not to mention the (Little) Spirit of Christmas.
The voice talent is fine, especially Danny DeVito as the cabbie. The idea is fine - a little mawkish, perhaps, but not bad. The characters - well, the irritable girl is annoying, and the spirit thingie isn't half as engaging as it is intended to be: the others are OK, though.
But this film is let down, and let down totally and utterly, by the CGI. The characters are appallingly badly designed and animated, the backgrounds are shoddy, and the camera movements are poorly chosen and badly animated. The first Shrek movie was released in 2001: 7 years later, this film is despairingly bad by comparison.
The voice talent is fine, especially Danny DeVito as the cabbie. The idea is fine - a little mawkish, perhaps, but not bad. The characters - well, the irritable girl is annoying, and the spirit thingie isn't half as engaging as it is intended to be: the others are OK, though.
But this film is let down, and let down totally and utterly, by the CGI. The characters are appallingly badly designed and animated, the backgrounds are shoddy, and the camera movements are poorly chosen and badly animated. The first Shrek movie was released in 2001: 7 years later, this film is despairingly bad by comparison.