48 Christmas wishes - 2017

 The children are rather cute and nice, and I think this would be a funny, nice movie for children to watch with their family. Only thing is, there’s not only fun but also the serious point of a father being dead, a child who doesn’t remember him and a daughter that has not accepted his demise, with the mother that tries her hardest to move on and give the family a happy life without him.

There’s a single mom (her husband died) with a very agreeable son and a teenage daughter she does not know how to relate to .

At the North Pole, all the Elves - who look like children but are not human, they’re elves - work hard to read all the wishes and build all the toys. Santa thinks things are changing: “are they getting what they actually need? Happiness levels are way down. Getting what you want doesn’t make you happy if you don’t have what you need”.

There are three elves in the mail room, Sammy and Cam who love their job, and frustrated Mindy who wanted to be a builder. When Cam wants to play, Mindy accidentally burns an entire bag of letters, they lost the withes from the city of Minnedoza, 48 wishes, so Mindy and Cam go out to the human world to get the wishes directly from the source. They are totally unprepared, but they meet Blake who gets the true story out of them and then offers to help them.

He gives them clothes, takes them home where Mindy tidies his room, then takes them to his school where they work hard to collect all the children’s wishes.

They finally think they got them all, but they never thought of asking Blake’s mom. She wants her family to have a happy Christmas, but that can’t be built. 

Blake wore the Santa costume to help them get a wish and was reminded of his father who died six years ago so he doesn’t remember him.

Still, that brings the family together and fulfils Laura’s wish.

From this moment on it becomes touching, with Laura finding the last letters that her husband wrote to them all, that’s not fun, it brings tears. 

Santa praises his three elves because only them could have fulfilled Laura’s wish, and asks them to take part in his new initiative, to infiltrate elves among the humans to learn their wishes and maybe fulfil them all year long.

The end credits show a gag reel. The children were really rather cute :)

Laura - Madeline Leon

Blake - Liam MacDonald

Emma - Elizabeth Ellsworth

Mindy - Clara Kushnir

Cam - Ethan Yang

Sammy - Maya Franzoi

Santa - Paul Dick

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