Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas – A Defense (Sort of)

This is a piece I never imagined I'd write. At least, not this way. I've had a desire to write something for this movie since it first came out, but never really got to it. I had held back, reluctant to just bag on this movie for the sake of bagging on it – fun as that may be.

Then this holiday season rolled around and I started compiling a list of seasonal movies leading this to creep back into my brain, and I found myself looking at it from a different direction that hadn’t occurred to me before.

So...here we go.

At the risk of starting in a roundabout way, I don't think I've ever said this before here, but I could never really get into the Sharknado films. I bring this up for one reason, and I swear I’m going somewhere with this – sincerity.

The thing that genuinely takes a bad film and makes it entertaining for me is when it is so genuinely unaware of how bad it is, and is therefore free to just completely go wild.

It's with this in mind that I say – I come not to bury Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas, but to praise it. Perhaps not the praise he would desire, but certainly the praise it has earned.

Buckle up, kids. We're goin' for a ride!