The touchstones for this festive musical film are clearly Frozen, Hamilton and The Greatest Showman, so you can immediately tell if this is the film for you. As an ageing toymaker's assistant steals his boss's big idea and becomes a success in a colourful pseudo-Dickensian setting, the film only really hits its rhythm once the focus shifts onto the relationship between the toymaker (wonderfully played by Forest Whitaker) and his estranged grand-daughter who comes to say. The quality of the songs is certainly variable, but overall this is a lively, enjoyable and heart-felt Christmas romp.
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