The Christmas Brigade

The Christmas Brigade is a 1997 Christmas CGI-animated film, the sequel to 1995's The Christmas Light. Like its predecessor, it was also only released on VHS.

Plot
The Christmas Brigade - consisting of Santa, the newly-reformed Burton the elf, Jennifer, and Isaac the elf, sets out to stop the evil Dr. D and bring the magic of Christmas to every single day of the year.

Why It Doesn't Have the Christmas Magic

 * 1) The movie has all the problems of the previous film, including the cheap CGI animation, terrible voice acting, etc.
 * 2) *In fact, the CGI animation is even worse here, as the characters move very stiff, and the frame rate is awful and choppy compared to the original film, which was a lot more fluid and smoother than this.
 * 3) *It's unbelievable that a 1997 CGI-animated movie like this has cheap animation, considering that mh:greatestmovies:Hercules, mh:greatestmovies:Princess Mononoke, mh:greatestmovies:Anastasia, mh:greatestmovies:Perfect Blue and mh:greatestmovies:The End of Evangelion which all came out the same year as this film and has animation thirty times better than this.
 * 4) Like the movie's predecessor, the VHS was very infamous for being recorded in Extended Play (EP) mode AND encoded with Macrovision copy protection, resulting in overall horrid video quality.
 * 5) Most of the movie is filler to pad out the runtime.
 * 6) * There's a song sung by beetles that doesn't contribute anything to the plot.
 * 7) * The film's title song is sung four times through the entire film.
 * 8) * Jennifer and Amy sang Christmas songs for over five minutes.
 * 9) * At one point, the characters recap the events of the previous film for fifteen minutes.
 * 10) Burton is extremely annoying with his terrible jokes.
 * 11) Isaac's "inventions" are just excuses for the characters to use as little animation as possible (i.e. the characters teleporting and passing directly through walls).
 * 12) The movie's main story is dealt with abruptly and anticlimactically.
 * 13) A lot of the new characters are just slightly modified models of the characters from the previous film.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) The movie can be considered a "so bad its good" movie.
 * 2) "Merry Christmas to all, and to all a Good Night!"

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