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Period: 3
February 11, 2016
Karly Greenwell
Period: 3
February 11, 2016
of his belief in Santa. This along with all of the other chaos Max is
engulfed in sends him rapidly racing to enter his cousin- free room to
hide. In the private room Max shreds the handwritten letter to Santa to
pieces and throws this out the bedroom window along with his belief in
St. Nick.
When Max throws the contents of the letter outside his window is
creates a mysterious and massive storm. Thus, knocking out all of the
power within miles around then leaving his cousins to stay longer that
planned.
The beginning of the movie had a strong build up with the storm
and everything else but after this point in the movie, everything begins
to go downhill. The scenes seem to rush from scenario to scenario.
Instead of giving each scene the appropriate time to be affective to
capture interest and suspense from the audience, it instead cuts the
scenes shorter leaving the scenes with lack of suspense.
The film was very predictable. The times when scary and
suspenseful moments were about, it was easy to see what was about
to happen. For example, detecting the pop up scenes were easy as well
as knowing who was next to go. This eliminated the surprise and
suspense from the movie.
The scary parts seemed to be overpowered by the funny parts.
Also the parts that were intended to leave viewers scared were the
same scenes leafing the audience laughing who wouldnt laugh at
gingerbread men shooting staple guns? To me, that isnt necessarily
frightening.
The movie overall was a bit disappointing. The ending leaves
many in pure confusion and disappointment. Expectations werent met
and more laughter occurred opposed to screams of fear. Although the
movie had a good message, it just didnt meet my expectations for a
scary movie.