I missed the end of this film! I'm so upset. Now I'll never know if Olive succeeded in saving Christmas. There I was, Christmas Eve, sitting on the couch, flicking channels, waiting for my ride to turn up. A long night of drinking and general carousing awaited. Suddenly I was tuned into Channel 4 and watching a streetwise penguin trying to sell fake designer watches to a talking dog. Well, it happens every day, doesn't it?
So anyway, I could talk about plot, like that matters, and I could go on about how funny it was, or how heart warming, but would you really care? Would you? Let me just say this, I was utterly charmed the gloriously flat CGI characters in a totally unique 3D universe. And despite what some of the other reviewers have said, I found Drew Barrymore's characterisation absolutely perfect.
Barrymore's squeaky little confused voice was the delightful embodiment of this dopey, self-deluding dog. A dog who manages to convince herself that Santa, after a minor Pre-Christmas Reindeer incident, was relying on 'Olive, the Other Reindeer' and NOT the 'all of the other reindeer' he actually refers to.
How could you not love this film?
Just thinking about it now, I feel certain that Olive must have helped Santa save Christmas. If she didn't, where did all those presents come from this morning? I was certainly in no fit state to help out.
So anyway, I could talk about plot, like that matters, and I could go on about how funny it was, or how heart warming, but would you really care? Would you? Let me just say this, I was utterly charmed the gloriously flat CGI characters in a totally unique 3D universe. And despite what some of the other reviewers have said, I found Drew Barrymore's characterisation absolutely perfect.
Barrymore's squeaky little confused voice was the delightful embodiment of this dopey, self-deluding dog. A dog who manages to convince herself that Santa, after a minor Pre-Christmas Reindeer incident, was relying on 'Olive, the Other Reindeer' and NOT the 'all of the other reindeer' he actually refers to.
How could you not love this film?
Just thinking about it now, I feel certain that Olive must have helped Santa save Christmas. If she didn't, where did all those presents come from this morning? I was certainly in no fit state to help out.