The Christmas Tree (1991 TV Movie)
1/10
The (animated) Room of Christmas
19 May 2014
Warning: Spoilers
Everything about this movie is just awful and on Christmas! The animation is stiff, no flexibility to make it look natural. The editing is sloppy and the voice acting and animation is just so terrible that it makes the Zelda CD-I cut scenes look like art form, and those cut scenes are terrible but at least they made the lips sync to the words unlike this movie. The music is just so bad that it sounds like someone was sleeping on the keyboard and think it's Mozart.

A lot of people have said that this the animated version of 'The Room' and even though it is funny to laugh at because of how bad it can be, its problem that it's a Christmas movie and at that time of the year there are Christmas films that are bad but had some effort in them to make them good. But this has zero effort put towards its animation, acting, editing and story. The lips just don't sync well at all, there mouths just flap up and down and there eyes don't move at all and they just blink slowly, no fluid movement put into them at all to make them flexible.

The editing is sloppy, there is a black fade at the start that finished a clip for about three seconds isn't a transitional fade not good enough for the people putting into their work? Plus the voice editing just skips at the end or goes immediately to the next line, no break whatsoever for the character. The voice acting is just unbelievably terrible! No emotion put towards that it that makes Kristin Stewart's acting from Twilight and the Snow White huntsman film more like Orson Welles, but we all know she's not a great actress but the voice acting of this poorly made film does, sorry to Orson Welles fans and I'm one of them.

The message at the end is also poor as well 'You always win when you're good!' not all the time! As Doug Walker says 'Christmas is effort' a time of year where we look out for other who had a bad time on one of the greatest events of the year, effort into buying someone a gift that they want or didn't expect. Christmas is also a time to give presents to the poor, the people who can't afford for great Christmas presents. We give them our money no matter how much we have to give them stuff that they want for Christmas such as food, decorations and presents and we, the donates, expect nothing in return. It's also a time where war cease to be for the time being, good will towards men. This special didn't do any of that and that's where it seals to the word awful.

This is a bad Christmas special and although it's funny like The Room, they should've at least TRY and PUT some EFFORT into this film.
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