Tuesday 23 December 2014

My Favourite Christmas Movie - The Hogfather

As you all may have cleverly deduced, it's almost Christmas.
My sister Sharon and I had this tradition where we would watch The Muppets Christmas Carol every year on Christmas Eve to get into the holiday spirit and all that.
Since we are now both a bit older (ie teenagers rather than tiny humans) we decided to find a new Christmas movie to watch every year.
On our search for a more 'sophisticated' movie, we came across The Hogfather.
The Hogfather is based on a book of the same name by our favourite author Terry Pratchett.
It's a TV movie from 2006, so, the special effects are a bit well, basic, but once you get past that it's a hilarious movie.
Basically, The Hogfather (Discworld's version of Santa) has gone missing, and Death must take his place while Susan, (Death's granddaughter) attempts to get to the bottom of the mystery.
You wouldn't think Death would make a good Santa, but Terry Pratchett's Death does. He really cares about humans and tries very hard to get into the 'spirit of Hogswatch'. However, since he is basically a large animated skeleton, it's rather amusing to watch him trying to play Santa.
There are lots of funny moments (and a few adorable ones involving puppies) but my favourite one involves a snowman and (I won't go into more details because SPOILERS).
I will do another more in-depth review of this movie at a later date, but I thought I'd just do a quick post about how cool this movie is.
You can watch it on Youtube by the way https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaOHaBaKq-8
Anyway, I'd better get back to creating our Christmas gingerbread creation (all will be revealed in a later post).

Merry Christmas!!!

1 comment:

  1. We usually watch either Elf with Will Ferrell or A Christmas Story, a movie from the 80's which is extremely amusing. This year we've been lucky and watched both, along with me seeing about 3-4 Christmas episodes of Doctor Who.

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