2013 · animation · comedy · family
Saving Santa
Directed by Aaron Seelman, Leon Joosen1h 23m2013
A lowly stable elf finds that he is the only one who can stop an invasion of the North Pole by using the secret of Santa's Sleigh, a TimeGlobe, to travel back in time to Save Santa - twice.
Our read: Saving Santa (2013) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive animation · comedy · family entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle animation / comedy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
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“You want a simple animated Christmas adventure with elves Santa and time travel fun.”
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