When you consider the greatest Christmas movies of all time, you're undoubtedly filled with warm memories. But sometimes you simply need a good chuckle and that's not the emotion you're looking for. While traditional Christmas movies provide comfort and romantic Christmas movies provide thrills, hilarious Christmas movies outshine them all.
Nothing beats seeing the Christmas dinner fall apart, the family at odds, the gifts being trashed, and the tree being knocked down, only to have everyone laugh it off and move on. There isn't another catharsis like that.
David E. Talbert wrote and directed the 2020 American Christmas musical fantasy film Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey. Forest Whitaker, Keegan-Michael Key, Hugh Bonneville, Anika Noni Rose, Phylicia Rashad, Lisa Davina Phillip, Ricky Martin, and Madalen Mills feature in Ashley Wallen's choreography. The film got 10 nominations, the most at the 52nd NAACP Image Awards, despite its origins as a theatrical performance. On November 13, 2020, Netflix released the film.
Jeronicus, a toymaker, is shattered after his assistant steals his book of ideas and a unique matador doll. He loses his will to create new toys until years later when his granddaughter visits him. Dash & Lily is an American romantic comedy streaming television series produced by Joe Tracz and based on David Levithan and Rachel Cohn's young adult book Dash & Lily's Book of Dares. On November 10, 2020, Netflix released the eight-episode series. After one season, the show was canceled in October 2021.
Dash & Lily Not Returning for Season 2. By Rebecca Iannucci / October 6 2021, 4:31 PM PDT. Dash and Lily Cancelled. Courtesy of Netflix. Oliver Bokelberg directed Dance Dreams: Hot Chocolate Nutcracker, an American documentary film. The video follows Debbie Allen and her pupils at the Debbie Allen Dance Academy as they prepare for their yearly award-winning Christmas rendition of The Nutcracker, nicknamed Hot Chocolate Nutcracker, and provides a behind-the-scenes look. Shondaland produced it, and it premiered on Netflix on November 27, 2020.
Dance Dreams: Hot Chocolate Nutcracker is an American documentary film directed by Oliver Bokelberg. Martin Wood directs Operation Christmas Drop, a 2020 American Christmas romantic comedy film based on a script by Gregg Rossen and Brian Sawyer. The film stars Kat Graham and Alexander Ludwig and is based on the real-life US Air Force humanitarian effort Operation Christmas Drop.
Netflix will premiere the film on November 5, 2020. Erica works in Washington, DC as a legislative assistant. She's been charged with looking into a US Air Force installation on Guam in order to find a basis to advocate its closure.
Andrew is an Air Force captain who has been sent to tour her around the USAF facility and persuade her to keep it open. The facility has an annual practice of airlifting Christmas supplies to Micronesia's remote islands.
Andrew takes Erica on a tour of the base and different islands, demonstrating to her that the tradition is valuable and that the facility should not be closed. During these circumstances, Erica and Andrew's romance blossoms.
Congressional aide Erica Miller lands at a beachside Air Force base, where she clashes with Capt. Andrew Jantz over his pet project -- Operation: Christmas Drop. Sloane Benson (Emma Roberts) is a young lady living in Chicago who despises the holidays because of her family's disapproval of her being unmarried. Her mother Elaine (Frances Fisher), who just split up with her fiancé, is continually attempting to hook her up with a new partner, much to Sloane's chagrin.
Sloane is now the only single member in the family when her younger brother, York (Jake Manley), gets engaged to his three-month-long girlfriend, Liz (Cynthy Wu). Meanwhile, Jackson (Luke Bracey), a young Australian golfer, is trapped spending the holidays with a lady he has no interest in dating and her family in Evanston, Illinois.
His date grows enraged with him later that night for not purchasing her a Christmas gift, and he departs frustrated. When they are both returning gifts they got after Christmas, they happen to cross paths.
After Sloane tells him about her Aunt Susan (Kristin Chenoweth), who brings a new date to every holiday gathering, which she refers to as a "holidate," Jackson recommends they be each other's to avoid relationships and sympathy from Sloane's family.
Despite her initial reluctance, Jane accepts Jackson's invitation and the two spend New Year's Eve together. Sloane refuses Jackson's offer to meet each other on Valentine's Day, assuming that the two may find true dates by then.
Sloane runs into her ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend while shopping on Valentine's Day, and Jackson, who happens to be passing by, pretends to be her boyfriend, and the two depart together. To prevent any additional difficulty, they both agree to be each other's holidates from now on and to remain platonic.
Fed up with being single on holidays, two strangers agree to be each other's platonic plus-ones all year long, only to catch real feelings along the way. Debbie Allen directed and choreographed the 2020 American Christmas musical film Christmas on the Square (full title Dolly Parton's Christmas on the Square). The narrative follows affluent Regina Fuller (Baranski), who returns to her hometown to evict the locals and sell the property to a mall developer.
It stars Dolly Parton, Christine Baranski, Jenifer Lewis, and Treat Williams. On November 22, 2020, Netflix released the film. Christmas on the Square was named the Outstanding Television Movie at the 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards.
A woman plans to sell a small town with no regard for the people living there, until she receives a miraculous visit. This Christmas is a Christmas comedy film released in 2007 in the United States by Rainforest Films and distributed by Screen Gems. Preston A. Whitmore II wrote, produced, and directed this Christmas drama about the Whitfield family, whose oldest son has returned home for the first time in four years.
The film is titled after the Donny Hathaway song of the same name from 1970, which is sung in the film by Chris Brown. During the Christmas season, the Whitfield family faces several challenges and tribulations.
The Whitfield siblings come home to their mother Shirley after four years to celebrate Christmas with her and pretend to not know the secret surrounding her marital status and a boyfriend. Klaus is a Netflix-distributed 2019 English-language Spanish animated Christmas film created and directed by Sergio Pablos on his directorial debut. Jason Schwartzman, J. K. Simmons, Rashida Jones, Will Sasso, Neda Margrethe Labba, Sergio Pablos, Norm Macdonald (in his last film appearance), and Joan Cusack feature in the conventionally animated picture, which was co-written by Zach Lewis and Jim Mahoney and co-directed by Carlos Martinez Lopez.
The tale centers on a postman stationed in an island settlement in the Far North who meets a reclusive toymaker, serving as an alternative origin story for Santa Claus independent of the historical perspective on Saint Nicholas of Myra and employing a fictitious 19th-century setting (Klaus).
Klaus was released on November 8, 2019, to acclaim for its animation, plot, and voice talents. It received seven Annie Awards, including Best Animated Feature, as well as the 73rd British Academy Film Awards for Best Animated Film.
The film was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature at the 92nd Academy Awards, making it the first Netflix animated film to be nominated, as well as the first animated film from a streaming service, alongside I Lost My Body, but it lost to Toy Story 4.
After proving himself to be the worst student at the academy, a postman is sent to a frozen town in the North where he discovers a reclusive toymaker named Klaus. Mike Rohl directed The Princess Switch, a 2018 American Christmas romantic comedy film based on a script by Robin Bernheim and Megan Metzger. Vanessa Hudgens, Sam Palladio, and Nick Sagar feature in the film.
The idea for the film stems from Mark Twain's 1881 book The Prince and the Pauper, in which two individuals who seem similar collide and trade places. Netflix released it on November 16th, 2018. The Princess Switch: Switched Again, which debuted on November 19, 2020, was the sequel.
One week before Christmas, a duchess switches places with an ordinary woman from Chicago, who looks exactly like her, and they each fall in love with each other's beaus. Monika Mitchell directed and Cara J. Russell wrote The Knight Before Christmas, a 2019 Christmas comedy film. On November 21, 2019, it was released. Between April and May 2019, filming took place in Orillia and Bracebridge, Ontario, Canada, with Charleville Castle in Tullamore, Ireland, providing the backdrop for the Norwich castle sequences.
A medieval knight is transported to the present day, where he falls for a high school science teacher who's lost her belief in love. Sean Anders directed Daddy's Home, a 2015 American comedy film written by Anders, Brian Burns, and John Morris. When their biological father (Mark Wahlberg) reappears, a mild-mannered stepfather (Will Ferrell) competes for the attention of his wife's (Linda Cardellini) children.
Principal filming started on November 17, 2014, in New Orleans, Louisiana, for Ferrell and Wahlberg's second collaboration after the 2010 film The Other Guys. The film was released by Paramount Pictures on December 25, 2015, and it made $242 million worldwide, making it Ferrell's highest-grossing live-action picture.
Radio executive Brad Taggart attempts to be a good father to his stepchildren but his problems increase multifold when their biological parent, Dusty Mayron, suddenly comes back into their lives. Clay Kaytis directs The Christmas Chronicles, a 2018 American Christmas comedy film based on a script by Matt Lieberman. Kurt Russell, Judah Lewis, Darby Camp, Lamorne Morris, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, and Oliver Hudson are among the cast members.
The Christmas Chronicles film series begins with this film. 1492 Pictures and Wonder Worldwide produced the film, which premiered on Netflix on November 22, 2018. The narrative revolves around two youngsters, Kate and Teddy, who see Santa Claus in their neighborhood and climb aboard his sleigh with his reindeer. Unfortunately, the sleigh malfunctions and crashes, and the gifts are lost.
As Christmas Eve approaches, the children and Santa must work together to rescue the day by properly delivering all of the gifts. Critics gave The Christmas Chronicles mixed reviews. On November 25, 2020, The Christmas Chronicles 2 was published, with much of the original cast returning.
To capture Santa Claus on camera, siblings Kate and Teddy devise a plan on the eve of Christmas. However, when things go awry, they are forced to team up with Saint Nick and save the holiday in time. Debbie Allen directed and choreographed the 2020 American Christmas musical film Christmas on the Square (full title Dolly Parton's Christmas on the Square). The narrative follows affluent Regina Fuller (Baranski), who returns to her hometown to evict the locals and sell the property to a mall developer.
It stars Dolly Parton, Christine Baranski, Jenifer Lewis, and Treat Williams. On November 22, 2020, Netflix released the film. Christmas on the Square was named the Outstanding Television Movie at the 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards.
A woman plans to sell a small town with no regard for the people living there, until she receives a miraculous visit. This Christmas is a Christmas comedy film released in 2007 in the United States by Rainforest Films and distributed by Screen Gems. Preston A. Whitmore II wrote, produced, and directed this Christmas drama about the Whitfield family, whose oldest son has returned home for the first time in four years.
The film is titled after the Donny Hathaway song of the same name from 1970, which is sung in the film by Chris Brown. During the Christmas season, the Whitfield family faces several challenges and tribulations.
The Whitfield siblings come home to their mother Shirley after four years to celebrate Christmas with her and pretend to not know the secret surrounding her marital status and a boyfriend.