Spookley and the Christmas Kittens
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 A poor sequel that came out 15 years too late.
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Spookley and the Christmas Kittens, is an animated, comedy adventure Christmas film, created by Kidtoon Films and was released on December 6, 2019, it is the sequel to the 2004 Halloween animated film, Spookley the Square Pumpkin, and is the second installment of the Spookley the Square Pumpkin series.
Synopsis
Spookley the Square Pumpkin and his holiday hill farm friends are celebrating the first Christmas snowflake of the season, when an unusual green cat, named Mistletoe crashes the party. Unable to remember who he is, or where he came from, Mistletoe sets off into the woods, after a mysterious owl who stole his collar.
Why It Doesn't Deserve Christmas Kittens
- While it’s clever for the sequel of a Halloween movie, to be a Christmas movie, the sequel has some glaring problems: a poorly structured plot, unintentionally unlikable characters, namely, Santa Claus, characters that appear with little to no explanation, important plot points being forgotten, and terrible songs.
- Speaking of the sequel's problems, all the characters from Spookley the Square Pumpkin return, except for two: Boris and Stella, the two bat siblings, are mysteriously missing from the movie, and are not mentioned ONCE. This is very poor because while characters missing from sequels do happen, their whereabouts are often explained, so the movie should've explained where the bats went, but they don't.
- Santa is also an unintentionally jerkish scumbag, throughout the movie, because what kickstarted the plot, was that, Santa finds a stray green kitten, and promises him that he'll find him a home, but instead of dropping him at the next house, he just takes the kitten back to the north pole with him. Only to wait a year and name him, he names him Mistletoe and ends up giving him to the farmer.
- Lack of consistency: The movie revolves around Mistletoe's amnesia, but it's completely forgotten during the second act, and then remembered again, at the very end of the film. That is not how you write a story.
- The movie has a completely unnecessary subplot, Jack throws a Christmas talent show for the pumpkins and it does nothing to progress the main plot. It just feels like it's there to pad out the runtime.
- The songs in the movie are all terrible, and do nothing to progress the plot.
- The scene where a raccoon tricks Mistletoe, who is trying to get his collar back, is stupid.
- Speaking of the scene, the raccoon's sack is revealed to be full of kittens, they also name themselves, after the first things Mistletoe said to them, which are Scrat, Scram, and Shoo.
- Speaking of the kittens, their knowledge makes no sense, because they seem to know what trees are, and how the world works. This is nonsensical because they're a month or two old, they are completely new to the world. They should know, of a newborn baby.
- It is also established that Shoo is mute, however, it's completely forgotten, as at the end of the movie, he sings in a rather creepy voice.
- There are also instances of uncanny valley, especially with the kittens, and the farmer's children, they look rather frightening.
- Bad ending: The farmer gets the kittens on Christmas Day, and Mistletoe regains his memory and it's revealed that Santa waited an entire year, to fulfill his promise, but it just paints Santa to look like a scumbag, because if the intention was to re-home Mistletoe, why did Santa name him, in the first place?
- Bad plot twist: At the end of the movie, it's revealed that the owl at the beginning of the movie, and the raccoon that tricked Mistletoe, were a disguised Santa this whole time.
Redeeming Qualities
- The toms redeem themselves in the sequel, as they're nicer to Spookley than in the first movie.
- Bobo is still likable, despite acting like a brat, at the beginning of the movie.
Reception
Much like its predecessor, the movie got good reviews, despite it being being panned, by YouTube critics.
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