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Shortly after the film's release in November 2014, Kirk Cameron responded to the film's almost universally negative reviews by pleading with his fans on his Facebook page. His post read: "Help me storm the gates of Rotten Tomatoes. All of you who love 'Saving Christmas'--go rate it at Rotten Tomatoes right now and send the message to all the critics that WE decide what movies we want our families to see. If 2,000 of you (out of almost 2 million on this page) take a minute to rate 'Saving Christmas', it will give the film a huge boost and more will see it as a result! Thank you for all your help and support in putting the joy of Christ back in Christmas!". The following day, Cameron took to Facebook again to claim that the film's rating had rose to 94% thanks to his plea to fans and supporters. However, the call to manipulate votes angered some film fans who took to Rotten Tomatoes to leave negative reviews (Saving Christmas's current rating is 0%). Cameron later blamed the negative reaction on "haters, pagans and atheists" and also claimed there was "an atheist conspiracy" to ruin the film that was allegedly hatched on Reddit.

VeggieTales (1993) creator Phil Vischer was asked to submit an opening segment to this film, but declined.

The explanation of why the wise men gave frankincense and myrrh is not supported by historians nor religious scholars. The most common explanation is that they were valuable at that time and place.

Was the first Christmas-themed film to win the Razzie Award for Worst Picture, though it wasn't the first holiday movie to be nominated.

Most of Kirk's explanations regarding the origins of various traditional Christmas being originally Christ-centered are historically incorrect. Most of the Christmas traditions were borrowed from other religions and other regions as a way to easily bridge the gap during the first missionary reaches to lands who followed various Winter worship rites.