Top 5 Christmas Movies

A bit late, sure, but I felt like doing a top 5, and with X-mas just behind us, I want you all to be ready for next year. :-j

5) The Nightmare Before Christmas

Sure, this would fit into any Halloween list as well, but what is more fun during the holidays while our rampant consumer culture is making you sick, and hearing just one more X-mas song threatens your sanity?

Sometimes a bit of irreverence is a good thing, as is the case with this movie. Watching Santa get shoved around is pretty fun, since this is one of the few movies that actually adds some character to this oft-glossed over figure. A perfect remedy for X-mas overdose, if not quite up to par for a Christmas Eve party.

4) Home Alone

Marv's tarantula scream alone is enough to send me giggling every time I see this movie. It is, in my humble opinion, the best scream ever in the history of cinema. Not too long, with just the right amount of piercing shrillness.

Filled with sappy crap at the end, this is still a great X-mas flick due to the sheer cultural significance it wields. I'm sure that it might not be on other generations' Top 5s, but it is on mine because I watched this movie with unabashed glee every year growing up. The idea of being able to transform your house into a massive booby-trap for burglars is every little boy's wet dream (at least until we hit puberty).

I'm sure that I'm not the only one who drew up massive plans for home security after this movie came out. My masterpiece was a combination shovel/tack-covered Nerf arrow trap that likely would have done some pretty serious damage to anyone trying to come downstairs.

3) The Santa Clause

Another film which has a rough time (primarily because it kills Santa in the beginning of the movie), this one makes the list primarily due to how it deals with some more mature themes. Having divorced parents is something that a lot of kids have to deal with, myself included, and this movie incorporates a lot of post-modern issues not present in the more old-fashioned flicks.

Also, Tim Allen can be funny when he's not trying too hard.

2) Muppet Christmas Carol

The muppets are great at Christmas. Suprisingly adult, with stuff for tiny folks and big ones alike. That plus casting Michael Caine as Scrooge is pure genius.

1) Elf

This is simply the best Christmas movie ever made. Not only does it have Zooey Deschanel, who has possibly my favorite singing voice in the world, it allows Will Ferrel to be as insane as he wants.

I really don't have anything else to say about it, it is one of the funniest movies that I have ever seen, and it is easily the best Christmas movie ever, in my estimation.

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