Anime 39931 Santa Company Christmas No Himitsu

Is there really no review for this film? As I have seen it, I will write something, but calling it a review would be an overstatement. Plain and simple, this is a film with hardly any substance, no artistic message to speak of, a simple collection of clichés tied together in a tedious way. The animation is bland, automatised, simple linework and fields of flat colour between. If I felt particularly intellectual, I could probably find a connection between Japan's corporate feudalism and the soulless blandness of this film, but a few hours after finishing the film I hardly remember it, it is just that ... bland. So put this on a line of TVs being sold at a Christmas sale at some supermarket, as it is merely a symptom of the consumerism that defines most of what Christmas is to the wider public - I see no other use for it. Seriously, the original was bad enough at a duration under half an hour, this has basically the same plot and style and twice the duration - it is horribly padded for time.

TLDR: save yourself the 65 minutes you'd waste by watching this film, and have a nice day!