Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

SpunkySelfTwitter It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Christmas-Reviewer The program is set in the fictional town of Junctionville, New York around the turn of the 20th century. Santa Claus is offended by an anonymous letter printed in the town's newspaper (and signed "all of us") claiming that he doesn't exist. In response, Santa returns the entire town's letters to them unopened. Upon reading the anonymous letter printed in the newspaper, Father Mouse — a mouse assistant to the human clock maker Joshua Trundle — immediately suspects that his brainy son Albert is its author. Albert confirms his suspicions, repeating the letter verbatim to him.Father Mouse and the Trundle Family devise a plan to appease Santa by building a singing clock tower for him, built with a special recording to play a song to coax him not to bypass Junctionville on Christmas Eve. Unfortunately, Albert enters the clock to explore it without permission, and inadvertently causes it to malfunction in front of the whole town, seriously damaging Trundle's professional reputation. Furthermore, the Mayor, publicly embarrassed at the clock tower's failure, refuses to give the Joshua access to it for repairs.Confessing his mistake, Albert volunteers to repair it himself and Father Mouse tells Joshua of the situation before waiting at his bed with worry on Christmas Eve. Although Albert does not complete his task until about one minute after the midnight deadline, the clock does play its song within earshot of Santa which convinces him to turn around and come to town after all.I just watched this again for the first time in 30 years. Funny thing is I remember most of this cartoon. Its not one of my favorites but its still enjoyable. I will watch it again. The best audience for this film is most likely small children but if you are a good parent you will watch this with them.

Aaron1375 There were those Xmas classics that one watched as a child because I really enjoyed them. Then there were those that I watched mainly because there was nothing else on and it put me in the Xmas mood. I would have to say this one falls in the latter. Not that it is bad, but it just does not really hold up to others such as Frosty, Rudolph and the Grinch in terms of enjoyment, comedy and good animation. This one is a bit off looking and I did not care for the way Santa looked in this one as a kid. Still, I was a kid and presented with an image of Santa and this one looked different so as a kid you can understand why I felt it was not right. The story is a bit different as someone has written Santa a nasty letter, a letter so bad that he has decided he will not be delivering presents this Xmas. Which seems a bit rough punishing all for the letter of one, I mean he could simply give the perpetrator some coal as he sees all and knows all. Well a man tries to show Santa how much he is appreciated in the form of a song coming out of a clock, and some mice must help this endeavor work. Like I said, it is not necessarily bad, just not one of my holiday favorites.

Michael_Elliott 'Twas the Night Before Christmas (1974) ** 1/2 (out of 4) A small town learns that Santa isn't coming because a know-it-all mouse wrote him an insulting letter telling him that he wasn't real. The people of this town must try and find a way for Santa to change his mind while the trouble maker's father teaches him a lesson on why even if you don't believe you shouldn't ruin the fun for everyone else. This is yet another charming short from the Bass-Rankin team who were masters at bringing this Christmas tales to television. This one here certainly isn't one of my favorites but there are enough nice characters to make it worth watching. The animation here is quite crude but I think this works in the film's favor and it certainly helps bring the mice to life. I thought the father-son mice were very good and their story was certainly the most entertaining thing here. The human characters weren't nearly as interesting but we are treated to a couple nice tunes and there's no question that the message is a good one and it gets across very nicely.

butterflyces I would recommend this to anyone, especially to people wanting to teach their small children about having faith. Awesome movie - I grew up watching it with my family. I can sing along and I definitely tear up at a few of the parts. I also wanted to comment about how sad I was when they took out the song "Give your heart a try" (I think that's the one they cut) so I bought it on DVD (the DVD is called Frosty's Winter Wonderland but Twas the Night Before Christmas is on it). I was so thrilled to find it!!! Now that's what I show to my kids.My son really enjoyed it too! (My daughter is 1 - she liked dancing around the room with me to the songs). Definitely an underrated, superb movie about faith, love, and the miracles of Christmas!