Christmas….Again!?

Christmas...Again?! is a holiday Disney Channel Original Movie, starring Scarlett Estevez. It's directed by Andy Fickman, produced by Betsy Sullenger, and written by Doan La. It premiered on December 3, 2021 on the Disney Channel.

Plot
Rowena "Ro", a high-spirited 11-year-old is hoping to add more spunk to her Christmas celebrations when her parents' divorce is going anything but smoothly. Hoping to get things back to the way they were before her father's new girlfriend and her son entered the scene, she makes a wish to a mall Santa. However, her Christmas wish goes awry as she finds herself living the same day over and over again. Stuck in this endless loop, she must learn to love her new blended family and learn the true meaning of Christmas.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The film is a ripoff of the famous Christmas movie, It’s A Wonderful Life, and a foreign film with the same title and premise, except the main character is a depressed man, not a child.
 * 2) The movie is very boring and hard to sit through.
 * 3) The protagonist, Rowena is so unlikable that she’s so bratty she gives Caillou a run for his money. She is also very ungrateful and very rude to her family.
 * 4) *Rowena’s cousin is just as bad as her, if not worse, he wouldn’t let her change the channel so he could watch a Christmas movie but he was very selfish about it and hid the remote instead of telling her it was his turn.
 * 5) Unnecessary toilet humor such as Rowena’s grandmother, farting and presumably soiling herself.
 * 6) Making Santa Claus a genie and a black man was kind of stupid and Santa was kind of racist too.
 * 7) Rowena wished Christmas was the way it used to be but instead gets stuck in a time loop.
 * 8) The time loop is a very overdone premise. However, Rowena can avoid her possibly incontinent grandmother.
 * 9) The movie is kind of cheaply done.

Good Qualities

 * 1) Some of the characters were likable such as Rowena’s father and his girlfriend and her grandparents.
 * 2) Rowena does eventually learn to accept change.