2020 · animation · family · fantasy
Alien Xmas
Directed by Stephen Chiodo42m2020
A young elf mistakes a tiny alien for a Christmas gift, not knowing her new plaything has plans to destroy Earth's gravity — and steal all the presents.
Our read: Alien Xmas (2020) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive animation · family · fantasy entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle animation / family, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- inventive
- redemptive
- tender
Watching Alien Xmas tonight? Spin for your lens.
Everyone on the couch spins once and gets one craft to watch for. After the credits, compare what you caught.
Your lens for tonight
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Everyone on the couch gets one craft to watch for. Spin the wheel to get yours. Sound on: the narrator reads your mission.
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How Alien Xmas feels to watch.
Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a sweet stop-motion Christmas story of an alien learning generosity.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if holiday creature features or mild alien mischief stories do not appeal.
Eight films that feel like this one.
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Discussion
Make it a movie night.
Pick a mood, get a film the whole couch will enjoy, and give everyone something to watch for.
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