Recess Christmas: Miracle on Third Street

When I found out that Recess one of my favorite T.V. shows was going to have a Christmas video, I thought: It's probably the T.V. Christmas special. But I was wrong. This was a good movie. It really isn't as good as the show, but I liked it though. Disney scores again (something that in the T.V. world with them never happens hardly.)!

Yet another forced animated sequel from Disney.

'Recess Christmas: Miracle On Third Street' is a compilation of four different stories, which as always leads to a disjointed film. While the stories themselves are somewhat entertaining, they add nothing to the preceding film.

The animation is a step down but still satisfactory, just like everything else including the cast. On that note, it is cool to hear two well known voices appear in James Earl Jones (Mister) and Michael McKean (Mr Bream) - not that they add much to the film, admittedly.

Again, if you love the television series then I am sure you'll enjoy this. However, with a few exceptions, these 'Frankenstein's monster' films are usually always a mess and this isn't much different unfortunately. Just stick and have belief in one story, it isn't that hard to do so.

Recess Christmas: Miracle on Third Street is a clips show. Its 65 minutes consist of a small amount of new footage (Miss Grotke, Miss Finster, and Principal Prickly driving home from school in a blizzard) combined with excerpts from "Principal For a Day," "The Great Can Drive," "Weekend at Muriel's," and "Yes, Mikey, Santa, Does Shave." Prospective viewers should know this before renting or purchasing this film.

When I first heard of a Recess Christmas Movie I was really excited because I am a HUGE Recess fan. After I watched it I was a little upset. There was basically no new footage in this movie. The movie contains a little part with Mrs. Finster, Principal Prickly, and Mrs. Grotkey getting stuck in a snowstorm. The rest of the movie is just clips from other Recess episodes. I expected better than this.

I was really hoping for a full new Recess movie - Not this. The only thing I really liked about this movie was the clip form "Weekend at Muriels", which is one of my favorite Recess episodes.

Overall I give this movie 5/10 stars.

This is just a compilation of previous Recess episodes. Sure there is a "story" going on here, but it is just an excuse to recap a bunch of previous Recess episodes and call it a full length "movie."

I would say skip this if you have seen the series already because you are just watching a handful of episodes edited together, with breaks in between involving the teachers stuck in a snowstorm.

Overall though, if you have not seen all the Recess episodes or if you want to put in something that plays in the background during a Christmas party, you can do a lot worst than this. This is just "okay," as a compilation.

5/10.