"A Christmas Story" remains the holiday classic for the whole family that will most likely transcend to most generations.
The story is of nine-year-old Ralphie's quest to get his parents or Santa to get him a BB gun for Christmas. Unfortunately, his mother, his teacher, and even the department store Santa say the same thing to him about that wish: You'll shoot your eye out, kid! While waiting for Christmas Day to come, Ralphie deals with the neighborhood bully, shocks his mother and father by saying the f-word, sees "electric sex" in the form of a leg lamp, experiences disappointment in the form of Little Orphan Annie's secret message and watches his best friend Flick stick his tongue onto a frozen pole. The aforementioned events are day-to-day events that eventually lead to the zenith known as Christmas Day.
The acting is brilliant. Every character really does the impossible: making the viewer think of the actor as being an actual character. Peter Billingsley is especially delightful as Ralphie.
The visuals (especially those pajamas and the department store) make any person think of Christmas. "A Christmas Story" makes a lot of people think of our consumeristic society today, but its message in the end is of family togetherness. There are no computer-generated visuals that really gloss over this film like there are in later Christmas movies such as "Elf" or "Christmas with the Kranks."
I must admit that in recent years, this movie has been played repeatedly to the extent that everybody is getting sick of it. Instead of watching it on TBS, I say that you should get the DVD or video and play it on Christmas Eve as a tribute to a simpler time.
Of course, I'm obviously biased here, because I really love this movie (I actually own a copy of it.) I would recommend this movie to anybody, no matter what their age or taste in movies.
The story is of nine-year-old Ralphie's quest to get his parents or Santa to get him a BB gun for Christmas. Unfortunately, his mother, his teacher, and even the department store Santa say the same thing to him about that wish: You'll shoot your eye out, kid! While waiting for Christmas Day to come, Ralphie deals with the neighborhood bully, shocks his mother and father by saying the f-word, sees "electric sex" in the form of a leg lamp, experiences disappointment in the form of Little Orphan Annie's secret message and watches his best friend Flick stick his tongue onto a frozen pole. The aforementioned events are day-to-day events that eventually lead to the zenith known as Christmas Day.
The acting is brilliant. Every character really does the impossible: making the viewer think of the actor as being an actual character. Peter Billingsley is especially delightful as Ralphie.
The visuals (especially those pajamas and the department store) make any person think of Christmas. "A Christmas Story" makes a lot of people think of our consumeristic society today, but its message in the end is of family togetherness. There are no computer-generated visuals that really gloss over this film like there are in later Christmas movies such as "Elf" or "Christmas with the Kranks."
I must admit that in recent years, this movie has been played repeatedly to the extent that everybody is getting sick of it. Instead of watching it on TBS, I say that you should get the DVD or video and play it on Christmas Eve as a tribute to a simpler time.
Of course, I'm obviously biased here, because I really love this movie (I actually own a copy of it.) I would recommend this movie to anybody, no matter what their age or taste in movies.
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