THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – WHY THE BEARS DANCE ON CHRISTMAS EVE (1977)

 

The want to keep Santa from delivering toys on Christmas Eve. A shy bear cub must thwart the plans of the evil Snerps and save Santa.

“Why the Bears Dance on Christmas Eve” is a delightful, animated tale a young bear called Bashful who after playing with his friends on Christmas Eve crosses the mountain to get home but falls down a crevasse and lands in the lair of the Snerps, evil imps who cause all the trouble in the world.

Bashful overhears their evil plan to sabotage Santa Claus to prevent him from delivering toys and ruin Christmas but he also discovers their Achilles heel, they laugh uncontrollably when they see bears dance,

So, when he returns home, he leads the rest of the bears to where the Snerps lived and danced them into hysterics and drive them back underground and thwart their plans,

So having saved Santa they pledged to dance every Christmas Eve to make sure their evil never threatens Christmas again.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS IS MAGIC (1953)

 

On Christmas Eve, war widow Julie (Frances Rafferty) and her son, Sonny (Harvey Grant) are shopping when they meet a war veteran with amnesia John Doe (Robert Hutton).

There is an immediate magical connection between then, though he was a stranger who had just got off a train, but as he had nowhere to go, she took pity on him and invited him home, much to the annoyance of her would be boyfriend Brad (David Alpert) who walks out angrily.

So will the connection between Julie and John last beyond the holidays or will it be a Christmas anecdote for the future.  

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE BEARS WHO SAVED CHRISTMAS (1994)

 

“The Bears Who Saved Christmas” is a delightful, animated tale about siblings Suzie and Tom (Haven Hartman and Adam Hendershott) who are heading to their Grandparents for Christmas with their parents (Pam Dawber and Brad Garrett) when their car gets stuck in the snow so they take shelter in an abandoned cabin.

When the children are asleep their Teddy Bears Christopher & Holly (Charlie Adler and Mary Kay Bergman) magically come to life and attempt to save Christmas for the children.

They decide to get a Christmas tree from the forest with the help of Flashy Flashlight, Charlie Compass and Mrs. Bucktooth (Henry Gibson, Jonathan Winters and B.J. Ward) but they must avoid a hibernating bear, Black Bart (Brad Garrett) along the way.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – COMEDY & CHRISTMAS CHAOS (2025)

 

After chasing her comedy dreams in Reno and failing badly she returns to her hometown of Laurels with 

So broke, bruised and disillusioned she’s back in Laurels living with her quirky and eccentric parents.

As she looks for work, self-confidence and the right direction for her talents, and trying to avoid romantic entanglements, a mysterious bearded stranger keeps intervening.

But in the end its love, laughter, and a little magic, that show her exactly where she supposed to be.

 

Starring Lindsey Keene, Trevor Watters, Wendy Martin, Rob Lauzon and Kelly Fitzpatrick

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS (1995)

 

“The Twelve Days of Christmas” is a delightful, animated tale about Grandpa Billy who tells his granddaughter a beautiful Christmas love story on Christmas Eve.

The story is about how, when he was a young man, he courted Grandma Elizabeth, and how in order to prove his everlasting love to Elizabeth, her father sets the young Billy a different task each day which he had to accomplish, these tasks have to be accomplished during the twelve days of Christmas. 

Characters voiced by Melissa Sindon, Jimmy Hibbert and David Holt,

The Twelve days of Christmas is performed by Bing Chrosby

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – COMMUNITY THEATER CHRISTMAS (2019)

 

Lacey (Elizabeth Mae Alan) is the manager of The Little Stage Theatre in Fort Scott, Kansas and as a community theatre they have to compete for a much-needed state grant that is needed to keep the doors of the theatre open.

The dysfunctional group race to get their first, original Christmas play by Lloyd Schumer (Carl Garcia), “Christmas, what does it mean”, up and running while everything around them falls apart.

Also starring IsaBeall Quella, Adrienne Rose White, Stacy Snyder, Veronica Wylie, Michael Tari, Marissa Pistone, Ashley Gianni, Jay Phoenix, Adam Weber, Beau Brians and Sid Noelle.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS (1993)

 

“The Twelve Days of Christmas” is a charming, animated tale which explains the lengthy and confusing Christmas carol of the same name and the story is narrated by a partridge, (Marcia Savella).

It concerns Sir Carolboomer (Larry Kenney) a brave, but self-important night and his love for the melancholy Princess Silverbell (Donna Vivino).

So, he steals what he believes is her Christmas list in order to win her heart but in reality, they are crossword puzzle answers to the King (Earl Hammond)

He enlists his squire Hollyberry (Phil Hartman) to locate and deliver each of the items to the Princess, but she’s not interested all she wants is someone to make her laugh, but he has to obey his master so continues day after day, until after twelve days of gifts, the Princess falls in love, but not with the Knight because she gives her heart Hollyberry.

 

Other characters voiced by James Carter Cathcart, John Crenshaw, Merwin Goldsmith and Frank Simms