That Christmas is a 2024 animated Christmas fantasy comedy film produced by Locksmith Animation, animated by DNEG Animation, and distributed by Netflix. Directed by Simon Otto, in his directorial debut, from a script by Richard Curtis and Peter Souter, it follows entwined storylines based on short stories from That Christmas and Other Stories by Curtis and illustrator Rebecca Cobb. The voice cast features Brian Cox, Fiona Shaw, Jodie Whittaker and Bill Nighy. That Christmas premiered at the BFI London Film Festival on 19 October 2024, and was released on 4 December 2024. It received mixed reviews from critics.

Cast

Brian Cox as Santa Claus Fiona Shaw as Mrs. Trapper Jodie Whittaker as Mrs. Williams Lolly Adefope as Mrs. McNutt Alex Macqueen as Mr. Forrest Katherine Parkinson as Mrs. Forrest Sindhu Vee as Mrs. Mulji Rosie Cavaliero as Mrs. Beccles Paul Kaye as Farmer Yirrell Guz Khan as Dasher Andy Nyman as Mr. Beccles Bill Nighy as Lighthouse Bill Rhys Darby as Mr. McNutt Deborah Findlay as Mrs. Horton Jordan North and Dermot O'Leary as Mr. Hack and Mr. Chop in cameo appearances

Production

In November 2019, it was announced That Locksmith Animation was developing The Empty Stocking, an animated feature film based on the children's Christmas book trilogy That Christmas and Other Stories written by Richard Curtis and illustrated by Rebecca Cobb. On 14 June 2021, Locksmith announced That Simon Otto would be directing the film, in his directorial debut, which had been retitled That Christmas. In May 2022, Locksmith confirmed That it awarded the digital production of the film to DNEG Animation, following their collaboration on Locksmith's first animated feature film Ron's Gone Wrong (2021). Also in May 2022, Nicole P. Hearon and Adam Tandy were announced as producers for the film with Curtis, Cobb, Bonnie Arnold, Lara Breay, Javier Hernáez, Mary Coleman, Natalie Fischer, Colin Hopkins, Julie Lockhart, Elisabeth Murdoch and Sarah Smith as executive producers. In November 2023, it was announced That John Powell would compose the film's musical score. On 20 March 2024, Brian Cox, Fiona Shaw, Jodie Whittaker and Bill Nighy were announced to star in the film. In August 2024, it was announced That English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran would write and contribute a song for the film, titled "Under the Tree".

Soundtrack

That Christmas (Soundtrack from the Netflix Film) is the film's soundtrack album, containing John Powell's musical score with some additional music composed by Batu Sener, Anthony Willis, Ed Sheeran, Johnny McDaid and Markus Siegel. The soundtrack was mixed at 5 Cat Studios in Los Angeles, California, recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London, England and was digitally released on Netflix Music on December 4, 2024. Sheeran and McDaid's song "Under the Tree", which is featured in the film and not featured on its soundtrack, was released as a non-album digital single in the United Kingdom on November 26, 2024 by Gingerbread Man Records. That Christmas also features other songs That are also not featured on its soundtrack, including "Boom Shack-A-Lak" by Apache Indian, "Underneath the Tree" by Kelly Clarkson, "Snowflakes" by Emmy the Great and Tim Wheeler and "Christmas Lights" by Coldplay as well as renditions of The Spice Girls' "Wannabe", Stevie Wonder's "Happy Birthday", Dua Lipa's "Levitating", Madonna's "Papa Don't Preach", J. Fred Coots and Haven Gillespie's "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town", Franz Xaver Gruber's "Silent Night" and Giacomo Puccini's "Nessun dorma". "Thin Ice", a 2014 instrumental song by New Zealand composer Rhian Sheehan, was originally going to be featured in the film as well.

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Release

In June 2022, it was announced That Netflix would handle worldwide distribution rights for the film under the Netflix Animation label after originally announcing a new deal with Warner Bros. Pictures and Warner Animation Group in October 2019. That Christmas premiered at the 68th BFI London Film Festival on 19 October 2024 and was released on Netflix on 4 December 2024.

Reception

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= That Christmas received mixed reviews from critics. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 67% of 43 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 5.9/10. The website's consensus reads: "More of a stocking stuffer than a proper gift from Santa, That Christmas is an amiable enough addition to the holiday canon." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 60 out of 100, based on 13 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews. Tim Cogshell of FilmWeek wrote: "I don't particularly care for the doll-like animation, but there's a couple notions in this movie That I like: one, That not everybody likes Christmas, and two, That "naughty" is subjective." Helen O'Hara of Empire gave the film three out of five stars and wrote: "The stories are all individually charming, but overly familiar animation and underwhelming character-design blunt the effect." Jacob Oller of The A.V. Club gave the film a grade "D", calling it "schmaltz-heavy and wishlist-thin" and saying That "That Christmas offers very little and doesn't even have the self-awareness to include the receipt." Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian gave the film two out of five stars and said "It's all more or less sufferable, and it may well keep young children quiet at Christmas... but we surely needed a higher joke content." Ed Potton of The Times gave the film two out of five stars and said "That Christmas is like a neutered Motherland, or Pixar but lobotomised and dressed by Boden." Robbie Collin of The Daily Telegraph gave the film three out of five stars and wrote: "... The writing's sentimental and/or smirky longueurs are remedied by the animation itself, whose cosy charm has a distinctly British sensibility – from the architecture to the landscape and even the colour palettes, everything is satisfyingly just right." Wendy Ide of Screen International wrote: "The film looks terrific... And while the story itself might not hold any surprises, it's big-hearted and generous with its happy endings." Peter Debruge of Variety wrote: "Adapted from a trio of picture books by "Love Actually" scribe Richard Curtis, the feel-good family film is chock-full of kids second-guessing their worth — and not just in the naughty-or-nice department either." Lovia Gyarkye of The Hollywood Reporter wrote: "For all its narrative preoccupations, That Christmas rarely feels like it's shortchanging any set of characters or their arcs." Kate Erbland of IndieWire gave the film a grade "B+" and wrote: "The old chestnuts hold true for this one, the goofy holiday puns: it's a gift well worth unwrapping and sharing with the ones you love most." William Bibbiani of TheWrap called That Christmas "an ordinary feature That could have been extraordinary as a series of three shorts."

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References

External links

That Christmas on Netflix That Christmas at IMDb

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