![]() It was shot in Meaford, Ontario with some scenes in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada. It was released by Walt Disney Pictures and stars Mary Steenburgen and Harry Dean Stanton. You’re better off that way.One Magic Christmas is a 1985 Christmas fantasy film directed by Phillip Borsos. Don’t watch it, don’t look directly at it, and pretend like you never heard of the thing. The best thing I can say about the film is that its run time was mercifully short, and that’s the only good thing I can say about it as well. There was nothing here that added any entertainment value that would make it worth your time. It was still liked kind of drab, the story wasn’t interesting, and the whole magic tree (that was sentient and could talk to Mark) was not the most compelling object to center a plot around. However, luckily, they didn’t try to have fanciful special effects so it looked a touch better than some of the previous films I had to review. This movie was cheaply made and it looked like it. I began to hope that they had felt the same level of misery making the film that I felt watching the freaking thing. ![]() I would have felt bad for this cast if not for the fact that after a while of suffering through this film, I began to hate these people. If they had, then the person who taught them should be forced to give these people their money back. I doubt a single one of these people had taken any kind of acting or drama classes. If you could fill out the cast with the living dead, I’m sure the end results would be similar. Almost everyone delivered their lines as if they were completely dead inside and all that was left were empty husks of the people they had once been. Everyone showed the emotional range of marionettes. To say the entire cast was terrible would be an understatement. ![]() Or better yet, how much I wish actual acting was involved. When discussing this movie, I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the acting. ![]() It is hard to sit through a movie when the main character is as detestable as Mark. The kid had no redeeming values that I could discern, so it made me wish someone would chuck the little jerk into a well and keep him down there until he decides to stop being a massive douchenozzle. Because he wasn’t done showing us what a psychopath he is, he decides to use his next wish to have Santa all to himself for all of Christmas Eve so Santa will give him everything he wants. Once he has a tree that grants him wishes, he uses his first wish to give him the power to make things do whatever he wants them to for an hour and immediately goes on a rampage causing chaos around his town. Sure, he helps out the old lady with her cat, but mainly because he’s kind of cajoled into it. It’s not worth the smallest increment of your time unless you really want to watch a film centering on one of the most unlikeable children you’ll have the displeasure of having to watch. Let me make this clear, you really shouldn’t check out this movie or look it up. (Though, to be fair, I’m not sure if he learned anything and was just saying what people wanted to hear like the little psycho I suspect him of being). However, it doesn’t take long for Mark to use the wishes in destructive ways, forcing him to learn a valuable lesson. He also realizes that the old lady is truly a witch, and she, as a way of thanking him for getting her cat out of the tree, gives him a special seed that grows into a magical tree capable of granting him three wishes. Instead of this being his demise, which would have saved me some suffering, this just makes him the movie go from black and white and into color. Once he gets there, he ends up helping the old lady get her cat out of a tree, and in the process, manages to fall out of the tree and smack his head. He goes over to the house of an old lady he believes is a witch, just to prove that he’s brave or something to that effect. The Magic Christmas Tree centers on Mark, a child showing all the signs of being a budding sociopath. No, you make someone sit through a movie like this as a form of punishment. These are not films that you would let someone watch for enjoyment. He uses the ring along with a magic Christmas tree which grants him 3 wishes.Īfter watching The Magic Christmas Tree, I have a question: Did people in the 1960s just hate children? Or was it just the people in the movie industry? Only people that strongly detest kids would make some of the family-oriented movies I’ve been asked to review that came from that era.
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