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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Chris Wiegand

A Town Called Christmas review – merry mission to restore festive spirit

A set like a paper pop-up … Florence Poskitt, Terence Rae and Eve Tucker in A Town Called Christmas.
A set like a paper pop-up … Florence Poskitt, Terence Rae and Eve Tucker in A Town Called Christmas. Photograph: Lian Furness-Priestley

‘Welcome to the happiest place on earth, kid,” snarls Tiny Tim, the caretaker who doesn’t care. Clementine has arrived in a fabled town called Christmas but instead of candy cane lanes she finds crumbled gingerbread, a malfunctioning robot and a shortfall of snow and joy. It was once Christmas every day here but now it’s perennial January. Even the trees are blue.

Thankfully, the newcomer is as zesty as she sounds. With a plan akin to the cheer-spreading finale of Elf, Clementine sets about generating enough festive spirit to restore the town’s glory.

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