What Makes A Holiday Movie Worth Rewatching

Five movies in one run sounds like a terrible idea until you’re hanging out with friends who will actually argue about what makes a holiday film work. We’re back on Couch Critics with Nathan, Lexi, and Katy, and we jump from Netflix comfort-watch territory to 90s chaos to Pixar weirdness without stopping to catch our breath. It’s a fast, honest holiday movie review session where “I’d watch it every year” collides with “please never make me sit through that again.”

We start with The Princess Switch, which is basically a modern Princess and the Pauper style swap with Vanessa Hudgens doing double duty. Lexi defends the fun and familiarity, Nathan is not buying it, and we all end up asking the same question: when does a cozy Christmas rom-com trope become just recycled storytelling? Then we hit Jingle All the Way, the Arnold Schwarzenegger classic that’s cheesy, quotable, and somehow still nails the frantic parent energy that shows up every December.

From there we switch gears with Hoppers, a newer Pixar-style movie with environmental themes, inventive ideas, and a few moments creepy enough that we debate whether it’s actually safe for younger kids. The Snowman brings the opposite vibe, a quiet animated short with no dialogue that’s sweet, simple, and polarizing. Finally, we go all-in on The Holiday, including the big split: Jack Black and Kate Winslet feel real, while the Cameron Diaz and Jude Law romance sparks some serious side-eye.

We wrap by rating every movie twice, once as a film and once as a Christmas movie, then tease what we’re watching next. Subscribe, share the episode with your favorite holiday-movie person, and leave a review if you like the show. Which of these five gets your yearly rewatch?

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Transcript

Welcome Back And Holiday Setup

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Couch critics, turn the holidays up, get the Goco Holiday Movies up from the naughty list to the nice one, two couch critics. Christmas, I'm wrapping films for you.

SPEAKER_02 0:12

Hello, everyone, and welcome to a brand new episode of the Couch Critics. I'm your host, Nathan. On today's episode, I have two special guests. I don't know if you can hear the door creaking in the background. I guess we have a third special guest. It's my daughter. She decided to come into the room. But I also have my good friend Alexis. Hi, Alexis. Or Lexi. And then I also have my good friend who hasn't been on the show in forever. Katie. Hi, Katie. How are you?

SPEAKER_03 0:39

Hi, you meant to say who has a newborn baby.

SPEAKER_02 0:41

No, I meant to say who hasn't been on the show in forever.

SPEAKER_03 0:44

I see. And who's and whose birthday's today? I earned 25. Looking alive.

SPEAKER_02 0:49

What what? Yeah, 25. That's a funny joke. Anyway, how's everybody doing?

SPEAKER_03 0:55

Great. I think the movie that we're that I'm excited to review today is probably 25 years old by now.

SPEAKER_02 1:00

Yeah, and it's the last movie we're talking about. So this my daughter wants to say hi.

SPEAKER_03 1:05

Okay, she's greetings, you beautiful soul.

SPEAKER_02 1:07

Yes, that is my daughter Anna.

SPEAKER_03 1:09

And she is tell us a secret about your dad. What's something embarrassing?

SPEAKER_02 1:13

What's something embarrassing about me that that you want to tell people about Anna?

SPEAKER_03 1:17

Um does he have stinky feet? Yes.

SPEAKER_02 1:20

I do not get out of here. You're fired.

SPEAKER_03 1:23

No, I'm not.

The Princess Switch Quick Debate

SPEAKER_02 1:24

I love you though. Anyway, so on today's episode, we're talking about five movies because it's been a while since we've recorded. Obviously, if you uh follow us on social media, you know that uh my family suffered a loss, and so we've been dealing with that, and then also just life in general is getting crazy. So yeah, just didn't have any time to record. So we're here, and we're talking about five. Bye bye, Anna. Love you. Five kind of five movies. I'm gonna say them real quick Princess Switch, Jingle All the Way, Hoppers, The Snowman, and the Holiday. So let's dive right in, shall we? The Princess Switch stars Vanessa Hudgens, right, from high school musical, and she plays two versions of herself. One's British, one's not. It's kind of like the princess and the pauper, except there's love interests involved, and it was stupid. I don't like it. That's my short but sweet review right there of that movie. Lexi, what did you think of the Princess Switch?

SPEAKER_01 2:21

Of course, we never are going to agree because I actually like it, and it could be because I grew up with Vanessa Huggins, so she does no wrong in Lexi's eyes. High school musical is one of my favorite movies. I'm sorry, I'm from that group of kids, that group of generation. So I actually like this movie.

SPEAKER_02 2:36

You love her so much you say her last name wrong. Yep. What did you like about it? What did you like about it?

SPEAKER_01 2:41

You don't understand, but okay. I like so it kind of reminds me of the parent trap in a way, and that's probably why I like it. If that makes sense, it kind of just reminds me of another movie that I enjoy watching because one was British and one wasn't, yeah. And the whole Switch room, you know, yeah, it's the same storyline that we've seen in multiple movies. Maybe that's why I didn't like it. Because I'm like, I've seen this before, and it's it was it's dumb.

SPEAKER_02 3:06

And Katie, have you ever seen the princess switch? Katie, have you ever seen the princess switch?

SPEAKER_03 3:11

No, and hearing you describe it, I don't know. Y'all are so split. I'm like questioning if I want to see it or not. No, I do like Vanessa Hudgens as well. I I was like a little bit that music, like you said, the high school musical era, but I don't know that she would be enough to draw me in, like just her being the movie would be enough to draw me in.

SPEAKER_02 3:27

And the crazy thing about this movie is apparently there's like two more. And I don't, I don't just reading the synopsis of the other two. I'm like, how how did they justify continuing? Like, because this is like a to me, it's like a one and done movie, and they found a way to make a second and third one.

SPEAKER_01 3:44

We gotta watch the weddings, we gotta do it.

Jingle All The Way And Nostalgia

SPEAKER_02 3:47

I'm good, I don't need to watch it. So that's my short but sweet, because there's five movies. People, we're gonna go through five movies, so these are not gonna be in-depth reviews, okay? So if you're expecting in-depth, I'm sorry. So that is the princess switch. Um, and I I say we rerate all of them at the very end of the episode, if we can remember all five. I support it. So jingle all the way, the Arnold Schwarzenegger holiday classic. I'm sorry, it's one of those movies, it's not like crazy bad, but it's it is like borderline, it's so bad, it's good kind of movies, and it just it makes you feel like you're in the holiday spirit just by watching it because it's Arnold Schwarzenegger, then bad, the late, great Phil Hartman, and Jake Lloyd, who uh god love him. Obviously, he went through some mental stuff because of Star Wars and everything, but he is such a bad child hacker, but it's like one of those endearing things, you know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_03 4:37

So is that such a thing that'd be so bad and endearing?

SPEAKER_02 4:41

That's exactly what this movie is. It's like it's like nostalgia, and it and the biggest thing for me is that Phil Hartman's in it, and he was great, and I I thoroughly enjoy this movie.

SPEAKER_03 4:51

I think you're I think to say that it's nostalgia is enough to carry a movie would be interesting. I don't know if Alexis, if it's nostalgia for her, I don't know how old she is, but to me, it would only hold weight of it being a good movie if you watched it and you were born in the 2000s. Like I don't want to just have a movie rely on the nostalgia as it's the positive.

SPEAKER_02 5:07

Well, and but the other part, it's like one of those moments where you're like they have those funny, those funny moments you just remember every time you watch it. Like the scene where he's in the the factory with all the Santa Clauses and he you know fights all these Santa Clauses, and one of them is like I think a famous wrestler in the movie, and the other one's like mini me, the guy who plays Minnie Me. So, like there's all these classic moments like, no, no, those are my cookies, or no, uh, turtle man, and all this, all those classic lines. It's just a quotable movie, it's funny, and I love it. I don't care how bad it is.

SPEAKER_03 5:39

I I love the like, I guess maybe it is the hair. I've never I haven't watched it since seeing a parent. Just the idea of someone happy is just to me. Like, I I loved the concept of the movie, and yeah, you're right, it is cheesy, but it's so I think what it's just endearing to watch what a parent will go through, and they just want to swallow their kid and make him happy. And it wasn't really about the toy, it was about doing what he could to care for his son.

SPEAKER_01 6:03

Lexi, what you think? So we know how I feel about Christmas movies. I love Jingle All the Way, I watch it every year.

SPEAKER_02 6:10

She owns it on DVD, folks.

SPEAKER_01 6:13

Oh, yeah. VHS, this is VHS. This is how far back I go to. Wow, yeah. I love Jingle All the Way, I watch it every year. Is it kidding? Yes, is do I love it for all the reasons that I hate Christmas story?

Hoppers Premise And Creepy Moments

SPEAKER_02 6:26

Yes, but see, I don't understand that why you hate a Christmas story, but it don't have sendbag in it. Touche. So those are our thoughts on uh Jingle All the Way. So that's movie number two. Movie numero trace is a movie that's in theaters. I think it's still in theaters. I saw it a while back. Hoppers, the newest Pixar movie, and my short review is I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I was going to. It's it is a Disney Pixar movie, so you always have to go into those movies, kind of like eh. I hope there's nothing in here that is like check the box and I can't show my kids. But there are things in this movie that I can't show my kids, but it's because it's like borderline creepy. There are some really creepy moments in this movie. Uh Alexi, I know you said you saw it like three times, so I'm assuming that's a good idea.

SPEAKER_03 7:12

Wait, can Lexi or you tell me the premise? I saw that, like, because you know, movies are coming up. I want to go, we're gonna go see the Mario movie this week. What's the premise?

SPEAKER_02 7:20

Well, basically it's a it's basically an environmentalist movie. This girl uh has this grandma who like brought her up to care about nature and all animals and stuff, and so when she grows up, she becomes like an activist, and then she gets she teams up with these scientists who have found a way to basically make like robot animals that you can put your mind into. You can communicate with animals and stuff, and so she teams up with these animals to save the glades, and that's I'm not gonna say anything more because then it'll dive into spoiler territory, and we don't want to spoil it because I actually did like this movie, and it's it's like one of those movies that had just the right amount of randomness in it that any other movie probably you would have been like, This is totally ridiculous. What the crap is going on? But it just it didn't push it so far that it took you out of the movie, and I really enjoyed it. I thought it was a lot of fun. I don't think I could show my five-year-old and my four-year-old this movie because, like I said, there are some moments, especially towards the end, where it does get a little, I would even say like borderline horror, just how creepy it gets. But again, it doesn't do it so much that it pushes it all the way out of the envelope. But I really enjoyed it. I did think it was a fun movie. I'm glad it didn't do what I was afraid it was gonna do because you know, Disney Pixar likes to do things that I don't like, and it didn't do it. And I really, really liked this movie. And I I laughed out loud and it was great. And Lexi, you saw it three times. So, what are some things that you liked about Holly?

SPEAKER_01 8:48

I enjoyed it for the fact that I did I felt like I didn't see the storyline before. Like the storyline seemed kind of new, they took a fresh approach on the storyline. Um, I thought when we first went to go see it, because I went with one of my theater friends, and like soon as we start seeing like her and the grandma's relationship, it was like, okay, cool, another Disney Someone Die movie, but it actually had like a real storyline to it. Now we went into a whole debate that I cannot say because we don't want to go into spoilers. I had to text it to you later about like we wonder if the government be really doing this for real, for real, with the trees and stuff. You talk of the drift.

SPEAKER_02 9:24

Yeah, I I see what you're saying because there was a moment where I was driving down the road somewhere and I saw a big metal thing that looked like a tree. And I was like, that's that's not a tree, that's a fake tree, that's a metal tree. And then this movie has fake metal trees in it.

SPEAKER_03 9:38

So it's like, oh no, wait, so you're telling is this one of those movies that's like wally where you're like, oh no, you start like it starts laying into real life more than you want?

SPEAKER_02 9:47

Well, it could be, it could be we could be starting conspiracy. Pixar is making us start conspiracy theories.

SPEAKER_01 9:53

Yes, it they did, so yeah, I enjoyed it, I think it was fun. Um, I really love the animals. The uh the sloth looking one was my favorite, the one with that sleepy eyes. I loved him. Sloth fever, yes, he was funny to me.

The Snowman Short And Silence

SPEAKER_02 10:06

Yeah, I thought I thought the voice, the voice actors are really good for all the characters. I thought it was fun. I I it did go a little bit over the top at times, but again, it doesn't didn't go so over the top that it took you out of the movie. So I would highly recommend Hoppers. Don't show it to young kids because again, there are like some really creepy moments, and but other than that, I thought it was great. So good job, Pixar, and it did really well in the box office. And this is showing, even though you could argue that it's borderline fernally a little bit with all the environmentalists and all that stuff, but it is a mostly original movie, and a lot of people are asking for those. And when a movie does well and it's basically original, that's a good thing. So keep on going, Pixar. Make good movies that just tell good stories. That's all I'm saying. So that is our cinema movie. Now we're going back to the Christmas movies with the animated short that has no talking in it, unless you watch the narrated version of the snowman. This movie is just a fun, cute little movie. There's nothing really wrong with it, except you do see the kid's butt for like two seconds. But other than that, this movie's good. Have you ever seen have any of you ever seen the snowman? It's a very short, animated little 20-minute one.

SPEAKER_01 11:12

It feels like it's like 20 minutes.

SPEAKER_02 11:13

Yeah, where the kid flies with the snowman, he goes to the snowman party, Santa's there. Yeah, we do the I hated it. Come on, Katie. You've never seen that.

SPEAKER_03 11:23

I haven't seen the short, but like I know what you're talking about. I've seen the clips.

SPEAKER_02 11:27

Yeah, it's it's classic. You have to watch it, you have to watch it. There's nothing really wrong with it. There's no talking in it. So if you like talking, you won't like it. Maybe I don't know. But it's a good, it's a cute little story, even though it kind of ends depressing at the end. But other than that, it's fun. Lexi, what do you think? I hate it. Okay, it's good to know.

SPEAKER_01 11:43

And Katie has never seen it, so it's because there's no talking in it. It's probably why, because let's be real, it's probably why I didn't like it. Well, you have to watch the narrative.

SPEAKER_03 11:50

It might be nice to watch with a kid, then, right? Like a kid who's just like, I don't know, background, maybe background movie. But yeah, it may not may not hold my attention, but it would be nice to like here, go you go watch this. I showed it to or I'm trying to finish cooking the Christmas dinner.

The Holiday Romance Split Opinions

SPEAKER_02 12:03

I showed it to my students and it held their attention. So must be doing something right. So that is the snowman, short, sweet to the point review of that. I liked it. So let's get to the movie that Katie really cares about. And Katie and I have actually had this conversation before. So her and I's thoughts will not be anything new. I think we may have reviewed this movie before, actually, or maybe not. I don't think we we used to do back in the day, we would pick Christmas movies for each other, and I don't think you've ever picked this movie for me because I'd already seen it. Right. I think I had discussed my thoughts. And this movie is The Holiday, starring Kate Winslet and Jack Black, Jude Law, and Cameron Diaz. This movie is halfway good. Get out. I don't okay. So let me just start here. I love the Jack Black and Kate Winslet storyline. I really I think theirs is the strongest and most compelling part of this movie. The Cameron Diaz and Jude Law crap is stupid. I think it's dumb, and it tries too hard to make you feel uh like all the warm and fuzzies with them, but it's dumb. And Cameron Diaz's acting in this is dumb. I think that's probably what it is. Like her acting in this is not very good, and I just didn't like I just didn't like their part of the movie.

SPEAKER_03 13:11

So that's that's because you just don't understand. You don't understand what it's like to just be two beautiful people in lust, uh, that just like have a one night stand and fall in love after that. It's just not your, you know, it's not your MO.

SPEAKER_02 13:23

I I think I think that's it. I think it's stupid. I think it's stupid that that's you try they try to make you care about two people who just met each other, sleep with each other, and then sleep with each other again, and then oh wait, he has two cute kids. Oh, now I now I now I love their them as a couple. No, I didn't. I didn't love them as a couple.

SPEAKER_03 13:40

Okay, here's first of all, it's the best movie. It's one of one of my I think it's one of my top three movies of all time.

SPEAKER_02 13:46

That's pretty wow. You haven't seen that many movies.

SPEAKER_03 13:48

And it's probably because it's just nostalgia for me. Like, I could probably quote almost every line, and I watch it every Christmas with my best friend. Shout out Lana. Every single Christmas, we watch it together, and we start it at the exact same time. So, like we we've always lived in two different places. She's lived in Switzerland, she's lived in Togo, Africa, she's living in St. Charleston now, and we go one, two, three, go, and we watch the whole thing, and we just quote it and we just stay on the phone for like two hours and a half hours. And here's the thing when you're younger, I found myself being more attracted to the Cameron Diaz Jude Law relationship because I was like, She's drop dead gorgeous, he's a dreamboat. He puts the glass, there's like a moment where he likes puts glasses on, and you're just like, Oh my gosh, and somehow you're so like so so hot. Uh, there's memes all over the internet of like when he like kind of does this turnaround look at the bar and he's got the turtleneck and you just like ladies' swoon. He's he's classic. There, but the older I get, the sweeter Kate and Jack's uh Jack Black's characters have been. Like, I think I've like matured into like, oh wait, that's actually the love that I want. But I think there's different ages and stages that you you know identify more with one. Also, let's just think I always let's go back to the movie though. It does.

SPEAKER_02 14:52

I think I always liked the Jack Black and Kate Winslow part. I don't think I ever watched him be like, oh my gosh, the Cameron Diaz and Jude Lompart. They're so beautiful people.

SPEAKER_03 15:01

I mean, it it does take getting used to. I don't know. Lexi, what are your thoughts on Jack Black in general? Because he's kind of like some people are like over him, you know, like Will Farrell was like really hot and then got annoying.

SPEAKER_01 15:10

Do you like Jack Black as an actor? I like Jack Black. I think he's better in certain roles, and I think when he's in his element, that's his thing. But I like Jack Black, and I don't care if I don't I appreciate that he typically stays in his lane, he knows what he's good at. He stays in his lane. I'm all for it.

SPEAKER_03 15:27

Yeah, now this was definitely not his lane, but I think that's what was kind of cute. Like he is he I think he was adorable at this movie. Uh, it's definitely not Nacho Libre, but this movie is star-studded. I mean, golly, the four main characters are just like all incredible actors. Then you even have like random, like Jim from the office shows up. Um, Catherine Hyde, Catherine Hahn is in it randomly. There's lots of movie references that until I started doing this podcast with you, Nathan, I didn't even pick up on. Like, the holiday is meant for movie watching people. There are so many like references to like older movies that go back. Like, I think people that study movies are like, oh, there's like ode to this and an ode to that, and an ode to this and own to that. It talks about the industry of movies. I love the score, that's my one of my favorite parts. The score that is just like iconic to me. And again, it's it's a rom-com, it's not like a serious movie, but like I think people in the industry probably enjoyed it.

SPEAKER_02 16:17

Well, I and and you talk about nostalgia. I've watched a holiday. So, what did you think of it? What what do you think of it? I think it's the curse of you, Nathan, because I like the movie.

SPEAKER_01 16:26

I think it was you know anyway.

SPEAKER_02 16:28

So, moving on from that. Um, so speaking of nostalgia, though, there's a scene that takes place in a blockbuster video. Yeah, and what's funny about it is you know, Jack Black is holding up these movies and doing the the score for all these movies, trying to get her to guess that and she and he pulls out a copy of The Graduate starring Dustin Hoffman. And who's in the blockbuster? Dustin Hoffman is in the blockbuster video with them. I don't know if you caught that, but Dustin Hoffman makes a cameo in this movie literally right after Jack Black mentions the graduate. And it's because it's because he just happened to be by the set, and so they had him stop by and do a cameo in the movie.

SPEAKER_03 17:04

That's hilarious. You say that I just I don't think you can have that many people as like main role. And this was not like before they got famous, right? It wasn't like, oh, and then they turned like mean girls, right? Mean girls, all four of those girls turned out to not all four, but a lot of the girls in that turned out to go on and be very famous. Like people were already famous, so I feel like they probably already had Hollywood's backing.

SPEAKER_02 17:24

Um, back up and mean girls, all of those girls had already been famous.

SPEAKER_03 17:27

You think so?

SPEAKER_02 17:28

Like Lindsay Lohan, not amazing, parent trap. I don't think Lacey Chambert was in Party of Five. Uh What's her uh the the main the mean girl was already in other stuff.

SPEAKER_03 17:38

Rachel McAdv was nothing though.

SPEAKER_02 17:39

Amanda Seafree she was in other stuff though before mean girls did not lean mean girls did not launch their startup baby. Okay, we're moving on back to the holiday.

SPEAKER_01 17:53

Can I say one thing, Uda? You moved out really quickly because I thought I liked it. Yeah, I think I but I will say I agree. I like the couple that you like more.

SPEAKER_02 18:00

Yeah, the Jack Black and Kate Winslet.

SPEAKER_01 18:03

Yeah, I came with a couple to me was uh a little it was forced. They like they tried to make you like them.

SPEAKER_03 18:09

I think everyone on this call knows that the so the movie ends with all four of them having New Year's Eve together. I think we all know which of those two couples actually lasted three months later. Like they don't last, like we all know. I think you when you're watching, you're like, that's not gonna last. They're long distance, they barely have anything in common. That one doesn't last. That's okay.

SPEAKER_02 18:25

No, it's not okay. Because what about the two children? The children, they need a mother, you're like my Bobby. Yeah, I'm like, they're trying to be cute, and this is not a cute to me. Mr.

SPEAKER_03 18:35

Not Ed.

Ratings Roundup For All Five

SPEAKER_02 18:36

So, well, folks, we've got through five movies, five movies. So let's go ahead for general rating for the princess switch. Katie, you you haven't, I don't think you've seen it, so you can't rate it. Lexi, what would you give the princess switch for general?

SPEAKER_01 18:50

General, a three and a half, okay.

SPEAKER_02 18:52

Christmas movie, a two. Okay, I'm gonna give it a 1.5 for general because I always thought it was stupid. I'll never watch it again. And for a Christmas movie, a 1.5 as well because it didn't make me feel like Christmas. Christmas was mentioned, I guess it was. I don't even remember. It's been so long since I've watched it because we haven't recorded in forever. But yeah, I didn't like it. So Jingle All the Way, okay. I'm gonna give Jingle All the Way a general rating of a 3.5. And for Christmas, it doesn't, it does. It makes me feel like Christmas. So I'm gonna give it a four out of five for Christmas rating. Katie, what would you give Jingle All the Way?

SPEAKER_03 19:23

I mean, it's not like one that I watch every year, like like Lexi does, but I do love I think it's a cute movie. So I'm gonna give it a three. And then for Christmas rating, it's got the heart of Christmas, right? You know, parents going to every end to make their child happy. Um, and also there's Christmas throughout. He's trying to get him the Christmas toy. So I'm gonna give it a four and a half for Christmas and Lexi.

SPEAKER_01 19:43

I'm gonna give him fives, it's one of my favorites. Nice. I enjoyed I enjoyed the movie. I love watching, I love putting it in my VHS, love putting it and watching it. Good times.

SPEAKER_02 19:52

All right, so hopping over to Hoppers. See what I did there, Katie. You didn't see it, so you can't rate it. Lexi, what would you give hoppers for a general rating?

SPEAKER_01 20:00

The general rating is a 4.5. I love this movie. I've done seen it three times.

SPEAKER_02 20:04

I'm gonna give it, I'm gonna give it a 3.5. Yeah, I I did enjoy it. I don't think it's the best Pixar movie ever made, but I did enjoy it. And again, I can't show my kids, so that's why I give it a 3.5. So moving on to the snowman, the animated short that again Katie has never seen, so she doesn't count. I'm gonna give the snowman for a general rating. It's not something I'd probably, you know, be like, hey, let's watch the snowman. I'm probably gonna give it a 2.5 for a general, and then for a Christmas rating, I'll give it a 3.5 because it is very it. I don't think Christmas is really celebrated in it. It's just snow and snowman people. So, Lexi, what would you give the snowman? One for general you uh you really don't like uh kids in shorts. Okay, totally no, and last but certainly least, the holiday, Katie. What would you give the holiday for a general rating?

SPEAKER_03 20:53

Five out of five, six out of five.

SPEAKER_02 20:54

That doesn't that doesn't compute. Are you giving it a six point six out of five for both?

SPEAKER_03 20:59

No, I mean to be fair, it's a rom-com with like centered around the holidays. So I'm gonna give it a five for general and a four for Christmas. I mean, that's pretty five for Christmas. Here's here's why though, because the message is not Christmas, but you've told me many times is it one that I'll watch over and over again? I watch it every Christmas. It's not Christmas unless I watch the holiday with my best friends. Oh, I'm sorry for that.

SPEAKER_02 21:18

All right, Lexi, what would you give the holiday for a general rating?

SPEAKER_01 21:22

General, I'll give it a four. And for Christmas, a three.

Next Week Picks And Sign-Off

SPEAKER_02 21:25

All right, well, let's uh let's just go at it. I'm gonna give the holiday for a general rating a two out of five, and I'm giving it a two because the Jack Black and Kate Winslet part. And for Christmas, I don't feel like Christmas at all. I do feel all the warm and fuzzies with the Jack Black and Kate Winslet part, though. So I'm gonna give that a 2.5 out of five for Christmas because it does give me the warm fuzzies, but only for the Jack Black and Kate Winslet part. So, people, that was our thoughts on five movies. We took on five movies this episode. So next week, I promise we will record just two movies. I promise. I promise. Santa's Apprentice, which I'm gonna be honest, I already watched it and I fell asleep multiple times while watching it. It's a cartoon, so have fun with that. And an anime kind of Tokyo Godfathers. Yeah, I haven't watched it yet. Um, don't I already don't know what I'm gonna think of it. So that's what we're gonna be talking about next week. On the Couch Critics. Where every movie gets its close-up.

SPEAKER_00 22:28

If it's Merryman or Miss, they'll break it down like this. Like this.