Here's a children's movie from New Zealand about a little girl who is approached by monsters from her storybook who ask her for help regaining their voices which have been stolen by a witch. This one is sort of like The Wizard of Oz if it had been made by the costume department from Dr Who circa 1974 and the music department of Kickboxer 3 (i.e. A bloke with a Casio keyboard). It intentionally utilised New Zealand's picturesque landscape to accentuate its fantasy world, so you could ask the question would Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy have happened without this film? Well, yes it probably would have but I don't think that's really the point. Its complete nonsense of course but, as you should have gathered from the above, its charming and likeable nonsense. It should really be on telly every year.
Review of The Monster's Christmas
