Not as embarrassing and uncomfortable as The Grinch.

Sweet christ the CG in this movie was embarassing.

Hot 'n' brown,
Now drink it down!

FUCK! I was looking for this to submit years ago but could never find a decent copy on youtube.

You'd have to reach for Lucas and Spielberg to find another director on Robert Zemeckis' level for creating brilliant shit in the 80s, followed by crap in the 90s, followed by utterly losing their mind by the 00s.

My brother, who was five when this came out, saw it in the theater and hated it.

I can see why.

This sequence is wonderful because the children absolutely refuse to go along with this bullshit. None of them try to join in or sing along, they just sit there uncomfortably and wait for the crazy men to leave.

It's a pretty apt metaphor for how actual children react to seeing this film.

My dad loves this movie because he has the worst train fetish I've ever heard of within reality or fiction, and my mom loves it because of this scene.

that was abysmal.

So yeah, I gotta do the hot chocolate dance like twice a trip, then there's your 'breakfast dance' and your 'general beverage dance'.

Guy I know got sprayed in the face by one of those hot chocolate pressure cannons, second degree burns, we're not kidding when we say that shit is hot.

At last, my fantasy of a Tom Hanks/train conductor Realdoll! How terrifyingly specific of my boner!

this fucking sucks

My opinion of hot chocolate has gone from favorable to unfavorable. Good work, movie!

Also, too much CG crotch in my face starting at 0:15.

Really glad I never saw this film.

Zemeckis' career is now defined by his obession with technological movie making toys over making a decent film - seriously if you thought this was awful you definitely don't want to watch Zemeckis' A Christmas Carol.

What sealed the deal for me with this film was when Hanks' conductor loomed over the protaganist and told him in what was no doubt not intended to be a low, menacing tone "I think you should get on board." Yes, not creepy at all.

wtf was that in aid of

good god that was awful.

I watched this movie one time because I thought it might be good, after all Back To The Future was always good. This movie is fucking garbage, it will ruin your kid's Christmas.

Most of the kids: We're not in this scene.

I GOT IT! I GOT IT!

I DON'T GOT IT!!

Every Christmas I watch this and Bad Santa. It's my tradition.

God damn it, why won't Tom Hanks shut up?!

Stars for evil.

If you really want to experience true horror, however, seek you out clips of the elves, especially the Aerosmith elves.

I still wake up screaming, sometimes.

Dead faces. Limbs that fold like cloth tubes filled with sand.

I think the terrible flat lighting surprised me more than the shoddy animation. Taiwan's animated news reports blow this out of the water and cost a lot less too.

I dunno--if you ignore the dead eyes and Hank's keening it's pretty impressively shot and choreographed.

It pisses me off that so much time, money, and effort went into this pile of crap that could of been used to make 10 decent films.

I'm glad Zemeckis lost his mocap studio after the torrential failure of Mars Needs Moms which to this very day I had no unearthly idea why my father went to go see that steaming pile,) but part of me wants to wonder what the trainwreck of his planned Yellow Submarine remake would have been like.

No amount of stars could break the awkwardness of this movie.

If wikipedia can be trusted, Roger Ebert gave this movie 4/4

I find the witchcraft-infused tablecloths less odd than the ability of these men to tap-dance on carpet while serving choco-ejaculate.

Bizzity, bizzity bump.