Christmas in New York

Christmas in New York
Congradulations, Mondo, just like the Titanic, you ruined Christmas!
Genre: Holiday Directed By: Orlando Corradi Photography: Color Distributed By: Mondo Entertainment Release Date: 2005 Runtime: 88 minutes Country: United States Language: English

Christmas in New York is an animated Christmas film created by Mondo Entertainment.

Synopsis

A jungle boy of the fifth oracle travels to New York, with his talking dogs Winner and Fox, to find Father Christmas (Santa Claus) and helps many people along the way.

Why It Got Coal This Christmas

1. Viewer Unfriendly: Much like the Marvel Cinematic Universe today, this movie is not friendly for first time viewers of the movie builds off the continuity of 5 Mondo Entertainment shows. Viewers are expected to watch the shows to understand the movie. This is not a good business practice.
2. Much like Mondo Entertainment’s other works, the storyline and other elements make no sense. Details will be explained below.
3. The film’s plot is very noncohesive as it feels more like two movies stuck together as one flowing plot, the plots are: Ari (the jungle boy) and his dog friends travel to New York City to get the white Christmas they longed for while animal control chases the dogs and the dog catcher is now good and Ari has to help the dog catcher and his family have a good Christmas.
4. Fox, who is one of the dogs and the Mondo Entertainment mascot is pointlessly genderbent from male to female for the movie for unknown reasons. They should’ve kept the dog a male like in the show.
5. 80% of the dialogue is just various characters making noises, mainly “ooo, oh” and it gets annoying very fast.
6. The New Yorkers being impressed with Ari walking two dogs on leash makes no sense, it would make better sense if they visited another planet, they act like they have never seen a dog in their lives, let alone, two.
7. All the characters have different voice actors from the show and the actors gave the characters vastly different voices from the shows, this could throw fans of the shows off.
8. The beginning of the movie is poorly executed as it starts with Ari and the animals wanting a white Christmas. To establish this, they are suddenly hot in the jungle, this makes no sense because they’ve been living in the jungle their whole lives. Being suddenly hot should not happen as they are used to jungle’s temperatures.
9. The tree, who is their portal to the world, is unintentionally terrifying because he has a deep voice with reverb that makes him sound demonic instead of a wise old man. Bobsheux calls him “the Demon Tree” due to this.
   • The characters have to enter his roots to teleport and it looks unintentionally inappropriate because it looks they’re traveling through where his genitalia would be.
10. The main characters finally make it to New York City and it’s off putting because all the New Yorkers either have British or Australian or Italian accents. Which is jarring because their accents should be authentic.
11. All the scenes where the characters go to the stores and orphanage, it looks lazy because all the merchandise and objects they have are just stock images of toys and food. To make matters worse, the images of the toys are stock images of Disney toys. It is a miracle Disney did not sue Mondo for using images of their merchandise.
    • It also gets lazier because when they are at odd angles, the images were just artificially skewed in Photoshop and it looks jarring.
12. To make things worse, the animation is provided by SEK Studio (yes, really). To make things even worse, SEK is based in North Korea, a country with harsh laws and kills citizens.
13. The dog catcher looks uncanny because he has large lips and it looks unintentionally scary.
14. Then it’s halfway through the movie and the dog catcher becomes good with no reason at all, making it jarring.
15. After this, it feels like a completely different movie, it’s as if the movie changed staff halfway through and they just write something else.
16. Ari goes to the dog catcher’s house and learns that his daughter is paraplegic and that his family is poor. From there, a fairy appears out of nowhere and grants his wish, is curing the dog catcher’s daughter. It makes no sense.
17. Ari and the dogs then go to the North Pole to save the dog catcher’s Christmas and it feels out of place because the presents and workshop come to life and it’s creepy.

Redeeming Qualities

1. The soup kitchen scene was decent.
2. The orphans at the orphanage are likable.

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