The Night B4 Christmas



The Night B4 Christmas is a Hip-Hop oriented Christmas special that aired Christmas 2003. The special was so poorly received, that it rarely even airs on television. However, it has been uploaded to YouTube.

Plot
An African-American elf named Elvin is fired from his job - which is making toys at the North Pole in Santa's Workshop - and decides to make it big in the music business and become a rapper.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) Poor animation and character designs. For example, Elvin has no neck.
 * 2) The movie plays the Furry Confusion trope by making two dogs (they are one of the main characters) in the movie walk on their hind legs, while a pack of guard dogs move around on all fours.
 * 3) Somewhat dark for a kids film, the villain threats the heroes that he'll squish them in bicycle tights.
 * 4) Santa does not look like anything like the Santa we know, while he has a beard, he does not have a mustache, which is odd.
 * 5) It pulls the Xtremely Kool Letterz trope by simply putting "B4" in the movie name which is very kitsch.
 * 6) The movie feels the need to take intermissions every now and again, which not only shows laziness with how they reuse animation, but also serves no purpose other than to fill out the runtime.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) The voice acting is passable.
 * 2) There are some good funny moments here and there.
 * 3) The story about a rapping elf that's saving Christmas while stopping an evil business man was an interesting idea.
 * 4) The special is entirely spoken in rhyme, something thats not often seen in media. (you try and write an entire 2 hour movie script entirely in rhyme, and have it make sense.)
 * 5) Some songs can be good.