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A Very Barry Christmas

By Tracy Moore, Common Sense Media Reviewer

age 4+

Offbeat Santa mix-up has goofy humor, lots of teamwork.

Movie NR 2008 45 minutes
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A VERY BARRY CHRISTMAS is a fun, cheerful holiday flick that makes the most of its set-up, a kind of trading-places adventure for Santa and an Australian do-gooder. There are funny sequences with drill tests for Santa that show just how much would go into such an ambitious annual gift drop.

Kids will enjoy the talking crocodile and kangaroo, the fun Claymation, the accents, and the mayhem, and parents will find a gag or two in the Australian humor amusing.

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