Once upon a time, Paul Maddens (Martin Freeman), his girlfriend Jennifer Lore (Ashley Jensen), and self-obsessed Gordon Shakespeare (Jason Watkins) used to be struggling actors together. Paul decides to be a school teacher and his girlfriend Jennifer heads off to Hollywood. Gordon joins a rival private school and produces the best nativity play. Paul hates Christmas and is forced to run his school's nativity play with Mr. Poppy as his assistant. When he's confronted by Gordon, he brags that Jennifer is returning with her Hollywood production staff to turn the play into a huge blockbuster. Mr. Poppy starts running around turning it into a media circus.
This is like a light weight School of Rock with a grumpy Freeman lead. The premise is very ridiculous but the movie doesn't care. If one can accept the premise, this is good clean fun. I would just have fewer kids so that they can be real characters instead of being adorable props. I've never seen Marc Wootton in anything. He's ridiculous and grinds me down until I have to laugh at him. Freeman and Jensen rounds out a pretty good comedic cast. The kids are great taking down Freeman and being generally adorable. There is some real fun to be had.
This is like a light weight School of Rock with a grumpy Freeman lead. The premise is very ridiculous but the movie doesn't care. If one can accept the premise, this is good clean fun. I would just have fewer kids so that they can be real characters instead of being adorable props. I've never seen Marc Wootton in anything. He's ridiculous and grinds me down until I have to laugh at him. Freeman and Jensen rounds out a pretty good comedic cast. The kids are great taking down Freeman and being generally adorable. There is some real fun to be had.