Part A Christmas Story, part Wonder Years, part Princess Bride, 8-Bit Christmas is the best of the pile of new Christmas movies in 2021. It's a Gen X nostalgia dream that is full on accessible for the Millennials and Gen Zs that grew up on video games. From the director of the classic FUBAR, 8-Bit Christmas is a surprising delight.
8-Bit Christmas is the story of an 80s boy's quest to get a Nintendo system for Christmas . Along the way he faces all the hilariously nostalgic challenges of being a tween, bullies, entitled rich kids, parents with rules. And it's all told by the grown up version of the kid in this century to his daughter who wants a new smart phone. It is wonderfully charming and despite how much of a rip off of A Christmas Story it is, the film is just so joyful you can't fault it.
8-Bit Christmas balances its sentimentality with real laugh out loud humour. Sure it may all be quite predictable in the end but it is how it gets there that just is so delightful. Zahn and Raphael are clearly having a great time playing their slightly annoying but purely endearing 80s parents and Fegley is a break out as the oft disappointed every-kid.
8-Bit Christmas just make make my annual holiday rewatch marathon in years to come.
8-Bit Christmas
Starring: Neil Patrick Harris, Winslow Fegley, Steve Zahn, June Diane Raphael, Sophia Reid-Gantzert, Lizzy Doyle, David Cross, Tom Rooney
Director: Michael Dowse
Writer: Kevin Jakubowski
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