My childhood...what have you monsters done to it!?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHJNBZ2rrMM

They haven't done a thing to it.

I must say, that looks pretty bad.

Meh I didn't really like the first one to begin with

Never even watched the first one. Don't think I ever will.

Good lord, over twelve thousand dislikes!

Hey, look, amidst the myriad of "This svcks!" responses, an actual (semi)detailed impressions post!

With a growing Ralphie, it looks like they're trying to mix in some "mature" teenager humor about six and "growing up". Yet they're also going for all-ages visual humor and gags like the original. That means you're getting half your comedic value in each, so the movie's probably going to end up confused about which audience it really wants to please, and will please none.

Most of the gags we see in the trailer are the exact same gags from the original. I mean, literally the same. [censored]hole Santa, leg lamp, little kid cussing, even an aunt joke that's an exact mirror of the first movie's with a different costume. Why make a sequel at all if you're just copying the original? It's not like the original had any explosions or special effects that need updating (a.k.a. milking).

If your sequel is so bad you have to clearly label it "official" so no one thinks it's a dumb knockoff, maybe you shouldn't have made the sequel.

Me neither, but it certainly never needed a sequel.

Wow I haven't seen so many dislikes on youtube video ever.

You must not frequent Justin Bieber music videos.

At first my reaction to this was:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztVMib1T4T4

Then I realized the truth and my reaction was this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU_iWAQcBBg&feature=related

Never have. Never will.

I haven't watched the first one; not even sure if I've heard about this movie. I watched the trailer, and it looks like a christmas movie that tries too hard to stay "classic", while throwing in some teenager humour and stuff like that.

Apart from that, I'm pretty sure the only reason the video have so many dislikes is because it's ruining everyone's childhood memories from the first film.

And thus was a very sad Christmas tis year....

Oh god... what have they done...?

just lovely
hollywood milking it like its a fine cow

Being Jewish, albeit of the "move Hanukkah to fit our schedule" variety, this is a film genre I've never had much to do with. Unless it involved singing skeletons. But despite this, and despite finding the first movie rather pointless, this new film looks awful.

Clearly the people behind the film realize this. A Christmas Story is one of the most popular Christmas movies in the US, the fact that it's sequel is a direct-to-DVD release is very telling.

Unfortunately this is true of nearly every comedy sequel. There are exceptions, but far too few.

For that second video I think http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jJ9sQTX4EE is a more appropriate reaction.

/spit

I didn't care for the first one and I really don't care for this one as well.

....I think that film is so horrible a video made by a child in their mom's garage could do better.

Guys should be more fearful if they show this for 24 hours on christmas.

As my second favorite Christmas movie(behind Die Hard) I must say I am very saddened by this. Horrible idea, down right horrible.

if a movie is direct to dvd does that mean that theaters reject it?

Just pretend it never happened. You're beloved childhood memories are ok, because they didn't remake the movie. They just half-assed a sequel.

You know it's gonna happen..