Media Matters

 Animated Christmas movie. This is a charming Santa origin story that teaches the moral: One small act of selflessness sparks another. Note: It has slightly older humor and a couple of slightly scary moments.

This animated movie is full of color, music, and fun, while also delving into themes of belonging, gifts, family, community, service, pressure to be perfect, miracles, and love. It’s the type of movie you could watch multiple times at different stages of life and get something different out of it each time. Suitable for all ages. Note: one of the characters has the gift of seeing the future, and it is portrayed in a dramatic fashion with sand, glowing green eyes, etc. I would discuss with children that his gift is a real gift of the Spirit: the gift of prophecy and revelation. But obviously the real gift looks much different.