Comedy.
I thought this movie did a great job of paying homage to the original and making callbacks without just remaking the original again like some sequels do. They nicely worked in the original characters and gave them a moment. If you're familiar with Jean Shepherd's book that inspired A Christmas Story, Ralphie was actually sitting in Flicks bar reminiscing of his youth with Flick. So bringing the bar into this movie was another nice nod.
They clearly wanted this to be a wholesome, heartfelt movie seeing as there was no dirty jokes. Maybe that's why I didn't laugh, it was just too PG. But the laughs were the only thing it was missing for me.
I loved the ending though. The essentially turned Ralphie into Jean Shepherd and made a move I thought strange in the beginning of the movie pay off in the best possible way. The ending raised this movie from a 4 to a 6 for me. If it would have made me laugh throughout, it probably would have been a 9.
I thought this movie did a great job of paying homage to the original and making callbacks without just remaking the original again like some sequels do. They nicely worked in the original characters and gave them a moment. If you're familiar with Jean Shepherd's book that inspired A Christmas Story, Ralphie was actually sitting in Flicks bar reminiscing of his youth with Flick. So bringing the bar into this movie was another nice nod.
They clearly wanted this to be a wholesome, heartfelt movie seeing as there was no dirty jokes. Maybe that's why I didn't laugh, it was just too PG. But the laughs were the only thing it was missing for me.
I loved the ending though. The essentially turned Ralphie into Jean Shepherd and made a move I thought strange in the beginning of the movie pay off in the best possible way. The ending raised this movie from a 4 to a 6 for me. If it would have made me laugh throughout, it probably would have been a 9.