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Newsflash, online users, the voices used for toys when Toy Story originally came out often didn't use the actor who played the characters. And the voice chips stank on ice. If you watch the movie **WITHOUT** the expectation of Tim Allen's voice, that Chris Evans is who Allen was "impersonating" to voice the toy, it works.

This was not a GREAT MOTION PICTURE. It was, however, fun, schlocky, and pulled at my emotions.

I'm not the target audience for this movie. I enjoyed this movie immensely on its own. The apparent logic used in a lot of the situations was on par with child-targeting story lines from the 80s and 90s.

If you're looking for feel-good fluff, get your snacks and soda, kick back on the sofa, and enjoy the show.

I love holiday films. I also love good fairy tales (and I don't mean "good" to mean "cleaned up and sanitized for our protection"). So, when a good fairy tale and holiday film get together and give birth to a wonderful film, I'm very happy. The film isn't "pleasant," but it has a lot of heart-warming sequences. It's not "fun," but it does help to anchor the fact that all situations have more than one side to be told. It has some humour (at least, in the English dubbed version), and the voice acting was very good. The scenery was beautiful. As somebody else said, it's not good for children under 10 to watch, unless a parent or older friend/relative are watching it too, who can answer what or why things happened.

I watched the film, cried a lot, smiled a good deal, and sighed with contentment at the end. Definitely a film to watch with a cup of cocoa and a disinclination to go out, afterwards.