A Christmas Story 2

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Obviously this can't be the same or as good as A Christmas Story. This movie is just a fun continuation, not to be taken too seriously. I like to watch it at Christmastime and just enjoy it for what it is.

After watching this movie it's official: Both my husband and I are movie masochists: Him: Christmas Story 2 is on On Demand Me: You *have to be kidding me* Him: Yes. Direct to DVD and now here. Me: No. This is not happening. They did not make a sequel. Him: They sure did. Me: (masochism now kicking in on my end) *Who is playing the dad* Him: Daniel Stern. Me: He played the villain In the Home Alone Movies. Him: He sure did. (both of us stare at each other. The look of horror in our eyes with a look of Movie Masochistic gleam) Me: Yes. Order it. The parent characters are gutted to the point of disbelief. The hair color of Ralphie is so unrealistic for a person it is beyond comical. They turned him into a bumbling teenage idiot along with his equally idiot friends. If you are waiting for a teenage kid to get his lips stuck on something in bad generated graphics for a "Nod" to to his lips getting stuck to an ice pole? Oh...this movie is for you. You are completely unconvinced Stern and Travis even like each other as Ralphie's parent. He is completely unlikable as the dad. She looks like she has been popping those 19th nervous breakdown little yellow pills as he blames her for his stupidity. She catches fish. He loses. fish. He blames her. She goes out and buys fish to cover for being inept with her money she has been getting out the dryer from his pants. Why? because he won't buy them a Turkey. And we should care about these characters...why? Even when Ralphie gets that *prized car* you still are not fond of this family. *This family* mind you. This is another Parker family. The Bizzaro World Parker family In Bizzaro Holman Indiana if you wish to be nice. They even made Valin Shinyei's Randy Parker into a kid you just don't care if he has to go to the dentist instead of sitting on the cold ice fishing with his father. Every character you loved in the first are now Smug, inept and cartoonish. No evil kids to root against with the green eyes and yellow teeth. One villain who you barely see and...who actually should be reimbursed for Ralphie's mistake. Unlikable characters. Whose change comes way too late for you to even care that Ralphie got his car. The cinematography looks like Norman Rockwell on a bad acid trip. When you get to the point where you know Ralphie bought a new leg lamp for his dad? I applauded cynically to myself and said "Well done writer! You have completely torn apart the original movie right down to this!" If you wish to be horrified by the pure annihilation of a classic movie? First pick up the remake to Casablanca, then watch Christmas Story 2.

What can i say.. a sequel that should never have been.. The acting was horrible. Look, when i know i could do a better job acting you need to find better actors. Daniel Stern...what happened to you? The house was totally different..maybe they moved..into a house with a "clinker" of a furnace? I remember the classic Ralphie had those piercing blue eyes.. Hell even when you see Peter Billingsley, grown up in his cameo in Elf, you are like "I know that guy". Just a horrible movie.. so many bad parts..the worst has to be where it looks like Ralphie is having a * as he plays the cymbals as he thinks about some chicks hair.. pass on this crap-fest at all cost.. a local Christmas play will be more enjoyable..

Jean Shepherd has got to be spinning in his grave. I haven't read his books, but we've watched the original "A Christmas Story" 20 - 30 times. To say it is only a movie or forget about comparisons and just take it as something new and just 4 fun is a symptom of a society that has lost its soul. The richness of the writing of the 1982 original (somebody mentioned there are parts of #2 that are taken from Shepherd's stories, and I think I can guess which--I would bet the visit to the dentist, one of the few funny moments) is not just a hard act to follow, but a national treasure. The original transports us back to another time when the world and especially this country were qualitatively different than it is now. Every detail, the cast, every nuance, the whole aesthetic, gels to remove us from the cynicism and political correctness and every other aspect of Today to a world that some of us can remember, almost remember, or at least, imagine we remember. The would-be sequel fails completely to understand, much less appreciate, the beauty or depth of this magic. The cast is all wrong. Crudeness was a part of that era, but it was configured in a totally different way from the 1-dimensional postmodern context which this one is locked into. The demon White Male stereotype this buys into is devoid of any comprehension whatsoever of the character Darren McGavin so perfectly portrayed. The costumes are still from 5 years earlier, not counting Ralphie's 1980s giant eyeglasses, which didn't yet exist in the years this story is supposedly set in. This one was cranked out by commercial crapsters incapable of escaping a temporal tunnel vision that has no business attempting to recapture any era that has gone by before their own time. The acting is mostly godawful. Seems like the only times it improves a bit are scenes where it appears that they finally got a bit tired of yelling their lines. The meanness of some of the acting or characters in the original was purposeful--it showed a child's perception of them, not actual cruelty. In this one, it's all just crude and stupid. The only reason to see version 2 is as a kind of cultural monitor, to compare and contrast, hopefully to learn the differences between great art and a total failure to grasp what art is.

Ralphie obsesses over what he wants for Christmas, doesn't get it, then gets it after all. He says, "Oh Fudge!", wears an embarrassing animal costume, isn't able to have turkey for Christmas, and eats at the Chop Suey Palace. Mrs. Parker overdresses Randy for the cold weather. The Old Man yells 'It's a clinker!' fights the furnace, and gets a leg lamp. And, of course, Flick gets his tongue stuck to something. You may think I'm talking about A Christmas Story, but sadly this is also the description for the completely unnecessary sequel, A Christmas Story 2. Clearly, there is no attempt made here to capture the magic of the original, only a blatant attempt to cash in on its success by recycling all its funny moments and adding tired family movie formulas. At one point, Ralphie blurts out what I'm sure the entire audience is already thinking, "Oh no! Not again!" It could easily have been the tag line for the movie posters. Despite all this, A Christmas Story 2 is certainly not as bad as it could have been, considering the current family movie genre's obsession with vomit and flatulence. If you're just feeling a bit nostalgic for A Christmas Story, A Summer Story and Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss are far better sequels with fresh material, though they, too, pale in comparison to the original classic.

I watched Mike J's review of it. I only saw clips of it. I know this sounds like cheating but I just didn't have the courage to watch this movie. So I resorted to the cheapest way possible, WATCHING A REVIEW OF IT! So Basically, the parents are more nasty than ever and yet from what I saw they don't file for divorce like in the first movie. I hate all the characters. The language is foul and shouldn't be used in this type of movie. The movie also has some awful gross out humor involving a tongue nearly being sucked out of a man's mouth. The movie's message this time is about being selfish and of course, getting what you want. Even though Ralphie and his friends caused damaged to the store they worked in and behaved inappropriately getting themselves fired. The movie is full of cruel people, cruel messages, cruel everything. I hate the narration more than ever. The movie has too many scenes that will scare young kids. Why would you let you're kids watch something this inappropriate? I hate to say it, but I rather watch the original ten more times while bashing my head against a wall then watch this movie in its full, and I hated the original! No Rating because I kinda cheated.

Let me first qualify my outlook on A Christmas Story(1) by saying I never allowed myself to purchase it, nor do I watch it before Christmas Eve, so I suppose I am a purist when it comes to this classic. The title of this movie caught my eye and aroused my curiosity and in the end I thought it was quite good for a remake without re-boot. It's very difficult to re-capture an original hit, and certainly this re-used a lot of the original gags but I thought it was very well done, had a very good storyline and I enjoyed it quite a bit. Some folks may just need to let go and have some fun with movies, that's what they are for! Relax... it's JUST a movie!

A Christmas Story is one of my all-time favorite movies and this is a great sequel! I highly recommend this to anyone who loved the original and is nostalgic for a happy ending. It must have been very difficult for the actors to follow the steps of their "predecessors"... However, their acting is absolutely brilliant, natural; I was also surprisingly pleased by the actors looking and sounding so much like the actors in the original. I am usually perplexed at the idea of watching sequels made years after the original movie and with different actors, but this time I have had a very pleasant surprise. Way better than I thought it was going to be. Especially for a sequel made thirty years later! Well done! Definitely one of my Christmas favorites! I think a lot of people have been over critical of this movie. Many have even written bad reviews without even seeing it.

A Christmas Story 2 (2012) Who ever thought there be a sequel after 29 years break I only saw first one a few's weeks ago, for the first time The movie is a sequel to the 1983 film A Christmas Story and was released straight to DVD. This movies takes place Five years after first movie, now Ralphie a Teen, This time he tries to get Car for Christmas No were near as good as the first movie, but it dose not make the a bad movie at all, far from it. This movie had some really funny moment, some jokes missed the mark, it had a nice plot. I laughed a number of times, there some really good sweet moment as well. The were really great hints to first movie, Like the thing the the Mum broke in the first movie makes return and she not happy about it! The acting was really good from the whole cast Nice and funny and sweet I really enjoyed this late sequel 7 out of 10