[HowardC]

It is by far the best live aciton christmas movie of all time. It's A Wonderful Life can suck it because A christmas Story is wya better. I mean look at the morals.... one tells you that you are more important than you think you are, which as we all know is a total lie! The other moral is far more sensible... if you pester people and complain enough you'll eventually get what you want, which of course is totally true! As a bonus sub-moral, we learn that if you fake cry and lie you can keep from getting into trouble, also totally true!

The christmas story, like a charlie brown christmas, strips away all the pretend crap out xmas and gets to the core of the fact that it it going to be pretty terrible and th eonly thing that can save the season is a pure act of kindness or love. Unlike charlie brown, xmas story manages to put some laugh out loud humor in there as well, and avoids the whole jesus preaching aspect as well.

I honestly don't know how anyone could dislike this film.