Mickey and Minnie Wish Upon a Christmas

I didn't have high hopes for this short film, but to add a bit of magic or at least warm entertainment to Christmas Eve, but it turned out to be a massive disappointment-for both me and my 6-year-old daughter. She chuckled exactly once during a fleeting moment of physical comedy, and that was the highlight.

The characters are paper-thin and borderline nonsensical, and the so-called "plot" is a frustrating, repetitive mess. For 40 minutes, we're subjected to the same cycle of everything going wrong, with the characters working against each other instead of coming together. It's more exasperating than entertaining.

The use of mobile phones in the storyline was baffling and completely out of place for the target audience. And then there's the setting: an idyllic holiday in the French Alps reduced to a shallow focus on shopping. Apparently, shopping is the ultimate way to spend Christmas Eve-what a tone-deaf message.

To make matters worse, the animation was painfully uninspired. It's the kind of generic, lifeless CGI you'd expect from a low-budget YouTube kids' show, not something from Disney.

Do yourself a favor and avoid it.