From a simple charming first entry, the Nativity series now seems to rival Saw in that appears annually and is a genuine horror. This third entry is perhaps marginally better overall than the the previous one, but the frantic story makes even less sense, the increasingly sinister Mr Poppy is even more irritating, and the stalwart British TV cast (Catherine Tate, Martin Clunes, Celia Imrie) have so little with which to work that it is painful. One particular musical number (out of a singularly workmanlike bunch) that gathers a number of low-level TV faces as 'the family' is probably the most excruciating thing you will see/hear in the cinema this year. Little children love these films, but not even Christmas can save this one.
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