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Name: How Murray Saved Christmas
Released: 2017-11-14
Cast: Jason Alexander, Sean Hayes, Jerry Stiller, Dennis Haysbert

How Murray Saved Christmas

NR
42m
2017

50%

age 8+

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How Murray Saved Christmas is a hilarious musical special based on the best-selling story. Everyone's happy in Stinky Cigars, the secret town where all the holiday characters live-except Murray Weiner, the grumpy owner of Murray's Holiday Diner. When Santa is knocked out cold by an experimental toy-the Jack-in-the-Boxer-it's up to Murray to save Christmas-which he does, in a weirdly wonderful way.

Director:

Peter Avanzino, Peter Avanzino

Producer:

Lee Supercinski, Claudia Katz, Mike Reiss

Writer:

Mike Reiss

Cast:

Jason Alexander, Sean Hayes, Jerry Stiller, Dennis Haysbert

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

50%

Reviews

Los Angeles Times

Patrick Kevin Day

It's the kind of special that harried parents may want to turn on for their own tired parents to help babysit the kids. They'll enjoy the extended tribute to milkmen.

But at the risk of sounding like a Grinch, while Murray gets the sleigh off the ground, How Murray Saved Christmas doesn't manage to stay airborne.

The very multicultural Murray is one of those rare holiday specials the entire family can enjoy for years to come.

It's way short on charm, labors to be amusing and runs out of gas well before its hour is up.

June 25, 2017

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Rob Owen

it's a clever, funny hour that's written in rhyme with imaginative songs threaded throughout.

June 25, 2017

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Common Sense Media

age 8+

Common Sense Says

Slightly edgy Christmas special makes Santa a grump.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that this animated Christmas special is fairly mild but does include some off-color jokes and depicts Santa as a sweatshop owner who calls kids "brats." Humor gets slightly edgy when it targets mental illness, trading affection for material goods, and "being gay" but "not that way." Expect a few bits of nudity or sexualized content including a parade that shows a woman in a bikini on a float, a high-kicking women with bare legs, and, briefly, Santa's bare behind.