We are now living in an age where nostalgia rules and where anything and everything that could be rebooted is getting rebooted. Well now then yet another character from the eighties is getting a new lease on life except this time it's with a christmas movie which for some really strange reason is being released right in the middle of November and so then join me as I review the film that was almost cancelled for good with the film in question being called simply just "Urkel Saves Santa: The Movie!" enjoy.
The plot of the film is when Steve Urkel almost ruins christmas for good he decides to save christmas before it's far to late. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad as it was a really fun plot but at the same time it's also a plot that doesn't really make alot of sense with alot of things not happening organically but because the plot demands that they happen which just makes the writing in this film seem really lazy in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this film is this films producer and Sonic The Hedgehog star Jaleel White as Steve Urkel , Urkelbot and Stefan Urkelle and Joel Kim Booster as Clerk Gary. Also starring in this film is Nicole Byer as Sheryl , Tiana Camacho as Robin and Child , Arturo Castro as Dudley and Robin's Dad , Zehra Fazal as Suli , Miltra Jouhari as Clerk Leslie , Wayne Knight as Mr. Hodges , Thomas Lennon as V.D.I , Larry Owens as Santa , Jay Pharoah as Jay-Z , Dana Snyder as Mr. Kalan and Bus Dispatch , Brian Totchi as Mr. Kochiyama , Janet Varney as Old Lady Buechler , Amber and Woman , Kym Whitley as Mrs. Paxson , Micheal Lyon Wooley as Dream Santa and Plastic Reindeer , Ray Wood Jr.s as Department Store Santa and Old Man Buechler , Miki Yamashita as Mrs. Kochiyama and Neighbor and Dallas Dupree Young as Jordan.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. With alot of the cast of this film tuning in some really good performances the issue is tho is that while this is a rather solid cast the films script doesn't give them much to work with interms of what their characters as such this films cast can't turn that good of a performance as this films just won't allow for them to do it.
Doing the animation for this film is the legends and he greats that are currently over at Snipple Animation Studios and Stoopid Buddy Stoodios. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about thew actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad with this film mixing animation styles really well and in a way that makes sense with the films animation really being helped by the fact that we have a couple of experienced animation studios who know what there doing working on this very film.
This film is of course very loosely based of off Family Matters with that show of course being the show that introduced the world to Steve Urkel. After only seeing the first episode of Family Matters I have to wonder why the makers of this film didn't lean more into the family aspect of this film as this is a christmas which means that having the theme of family and what it means to be a family and to have a family even if it's just a makeshift one would have made perfect sense and yet the film doesn't take full advantage of where it's title character came from as this film feels like a really bad episode of Family Matters and not at all like a good episode of the show which is a shame as there is potential for this film to be a great christmas classic of a film.
For those of you that are wondering this film was very nearly cancelled for good as it was due to air on HBO Max and Cartoon Network last year. With the film originally going the title "Did I Do That to the Holidays? A Steve Urkel Story" and yet with a bunch of other projects the film was pulled from both HBO Max and Cartoon Network and yet for some reason the filmmakers found a way to release the film direct to DVD which is the best way to release this movie as Family Matters as a franchise really doesn't have that many fans to really justify the film being released on either HBO Max and Cartoon Network and at least this way the film still gets to see the light of day.
This film oddly features songs that are co-written by this films writer and a writer for King Of The Hill Wyatt Cenac and Jean Grae. I will admit that for a direct to DVD film this films aren't that bad with this film featuring songs that are alot of the times better then the songs that are in Wish with the song "I Love Christmas" being the best sing in the whole entire film just due to how fun this song with the song also not being that badly sung either but oddly enough this films songs suffer the opposite problem that the songs from Wish suffer from as the songs in this film were to long and far to frequent with thee film having a song every couple of minuets.
Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and twenty six minuets and fifty four seconds. Which was a bit on the long side for this film as when you get right down to it this film really doesn't have alot of story that large amount of running time with this film featuring alot of scenes that are filler scenes as they add nothing to the overall plot of the film with them just being there to pad out the films running time and really nothing more that with the alot of the films songs also feeling like filler scenes as well with this film also really feeling like that it's on repeat mode quite alot of the time as well but I will admit that this film really does some really good pacing to it tho.
So now then as this is a comedy that means that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well the in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured /presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad With this film having some genuinely really funny moments in it all of which come from the Steve Urkel and seeing just what a destructible force of nature that he is and while this film does also feature some bad jokes as well those jokes are in the minority with the film really having more good jokes in it then it does good jokes in this very film in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall this film was alot better then what it really had any right to be and while it most likely won't cause Family Matters to earn any new fans what it will do is give a nice Christmas themed that both kids and adults can really enjoy in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that means that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 6.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boy and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Sound Effects fandom wiki page , the official Family Matter fandom wiki page and google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from these very episodes that I used in this very review being Google Images simply just due to the fact that alot of the images that are on Google Images are all really fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.