Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

SmugKitZine Tied for the best movie I have ever seen

Myron Clemons A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

Calum Hutton It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

dhainline1 I have a soft spot in my heart for the original "A Christmas Story" from 1983. Little Ralphie wants a Red Rider BB gun for Christmas and we can all relate to wanting something so bad we can taste it! This time, Ralphie Parker is a teen boy played by Braeden Lemasters who wants a car instead of a BB gun. They want all of us to think everything is the same as the first movie. How wrong the writers of this are! No one but no one can play Ralphie like Peter Billingsley did in the first movie. Braeden tries but he seems so immature for his age and the fantasies he has about his school crush Drucilla Gootrad (Tiera Skovbye) cross into stalker territory. While Daniel Stern was excellent in "Home Alone" he can't live up to Darren McGavin's portrayal as the Old Man who was stern but at the same time a kind father. Let's all forget this movie exists and everyone will remember "A Christmas Story" one hundred years from now while forgetting the sequel even exists!

scottshogs One of my favorite (and certainly my favorite Christmas movie) movies is A Christmas Story. I watched this "squeal" expecting a Trolls 2 (of which there is no Trolls 1). However, while the movie does not deliver on that Jean Shepherd voice over or short stories beauty...it is actually not a terrible film. It honors Shepherds characters, but does NOT convey his short story presentation. The movie is good by our low modern standards, but OH how we miss great minds like Shepherd's. While a cat can be entertained by transformers 14 "things blow up and this movie has no point other and the writers have the IQs of a 3 year old" (working title), we are so missing minds like Shepards'.

Matthew Luke Brady This movie actually broke the record of getting so much dislikes on YouTube for the first teaser video, that's how bad this film is.The film follows five years later with Ralphie, Randy, mom and the Old Man. When 15 year-old Ralphie accidentally wrecks his dream car before even getting it off the lot, he and his friends Flick and Schwartz band together to raise the money to fix it by Christmas Eve - before the car dealer tells the Old Man. They all get their (first!) jobs, but run into trouble at every turn.To be honest I didn't know they was a squeal to A Christmas Story, so I checked it out online and watch the full movie and it's by far the worst squeal and Christmas movie ever made. I was just like everybody else when news first broke out about this movie release and a lot of people and even me where really mad about this. 16,457 Dislikes and only 941 likes Doug Walker (Nostalgic Critic) Did a review of this movie and by the review is pretty funny so if you haven't checked it out yet, please do, so anywhere he did a review of this movie and he got every single thing that bothered me about the film right and it's so good to see him destroy this movie.Everything about this movie sucks. The acting is god awful, the writing feels lazy and unfinished and there didn't really need a squeal to A Christmas Story. The first film was fine on it's own.

zardoz-13 You've got to give producer & director Brian Levant a lot of credit for trying to live up to the legacy of Bob Clark's charming holiday classic "A Christmas Story" (1983) with his mediocre, made-for-television sequel "A Christmas Story 2" with nobody reprising any roles from the original. Mind you, Levant and "Open Season" scenarist Nat Mauldin try so hard to be funny that they aren't half as funny as the original. They do rely on Jean Shepherd's short stories. They imitate Clark's masterpiece with narration that adds only a modicum of humor to the second-rate shenanigans. Everything looks like the original in that the original itself resembled the color of a "Saturday Evening Post" magazine. Nevertheless, "A Christmas Story 2" is at best only tolerable and shares little that distinguished its predecessor.Basically, for the sake of continuity, Ralphie, Flick, and Schwartz are now teenagers, attend junior high school, and still have a way of getting themselves into trouble. Ambitious Ralphie (Braeden Lemasters of "Easy A") sets his eyes on a 1939 Mercury automobile in this period recreation rather than a Red Ryder Carbine Action 200-shot Range Model air rifle. He does his best to let his parents know what he wants for Christmas, but seems to have little success. Furthermore, he has also discovered the opposite sex, but the girl of his dreams has a jock of a boyfriend. Meantime, Ralphie's ill-fated father (Daniel Stern of "Home Alone") is still contends with his furnace off-screen. Anyway, Ralphie wrecks the Mercury when he backs it into a light pole. Miraculously, he doesn't get a scratch on it until a plastic reindeer atop the light pole falls through the roof. The car dealer charges Ralphie the sum of $85 for repairs to the torn convertible roof. Naturally, Ralphie's father refuses to foot the bill for any repairs so our hapless heroes land jobs at Higbee's Department Store. Their first day on the job turns into a disaster. Instead of making money, they wind up owing money. The scenes of Ralphie and his pals making a mess of everything look straight out of an old "I Love Lucy" episode. In the gift wrapping department, they accidentally wrap up an infant. Later, after he has disowned his friends and grovels for employment at Higbee's without Flick and Schwartz, Ralphie stoops to wearing a reindeer outfit. Eventually, he settles with the car dealer, buys dinner for several less-than-fortunate people, and gets his father another leg lamp. Indeed, like the air rifle, Ralphie does realize his dream and gets the Mercury.Levant and Mauldin recycle some memorable gags from the original. The Old Man continues to tangle with the furnace until he replaces it with an oil-burning furnace. Flick, who got his tongue stuck to a flag pole in the original, gets his tongue stuck in a suction tube at work. Cheapskate that Ralphie's father is, the Old Man refuses to pay for a high-priced turkey and prefers to suffer in the freezing cold fishing through a hole in the ice for fish. Of course, he never catches anything for his trouble. Levant and company try but they cannot deliver no matter how meticulous they try. The period recreated settings look immaculate. The problem is "A Christmas Story 2" qualifies as more of a caricature than a comedy. Mind you, you won't cause yourself harm by watching it once, but you might not want to display it on your shelves along with your other DVDs.