A Monster Christmas

{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox television | director = Chad Van De Keere | writer = {{plainlist| *Samantha Shear *Michael Shear }} | starring = {{plainlist| *Isabella Acres *Drake Bell *Emilio Estevez *Ray Liotta }} | company = | released = {{Start date|2012}} | runtime = 43 minutes | country = United States | language = English }}

'''''A Monster Christmas''''' or '''''Abominable Christmas''''' is a 2012 American made-for-television animated children's film.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Crump |first1=William D. |title=Happy Holidays—Animated! A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Cartoons on Television and Film |date=2019 |publisher=McFarland & Co |isbn=9781476672939 |page=3}}</ref> Directed by Chad Van De Keere for Kickstart Productions, it features the voices of Isabella Acres, Drake Bell, Emilio Estevez and Ray Liotta. The film is about two young abominable snow children who escape the capture of an evil scientist and take up residence with a family.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.radiotimes.com/film/cpsy2n/a-monster-christmas|title=A Monster Christmas|magazine=Radio Times|access-date=21 December 2016|archive-date=December 21, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161221235231/http://www.radiotimes.com/film/cpsy2n/a-monster-christmas|url-status=live}}</ref> The film was screened at the 2013 Foyle Film Festival.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.foylefilmfestival.org/content/monster-christmas|title=A Monster Christmas|publisher=Foyle Film Festival|access-date=21 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161222000830/http://www.foylefilmfestival.org/content/monster-christmas|archive-date=22 December 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Cast== The following actors provided their voice for the characters:

*Ariel Winter as Abby Abominable *Isabella Acres as Lilly Winterbottom *Nolan Gould as Adam Abominable *Drake Bell as Matt Winterbottom *Ray Liotta as Abominable Dad *Emilio Estevez as Mr. Winterbottom *Matthew Lillard as Dogcatcher *Jane Lynch as Margaret Knowhow

==Reception== Cleaver Patterson, writing for ''Starburst Magazine'' wrote: "It's quite charming, with its story of a hapless father doing his best to bring up his unruly offspring single-handedly after his wife has died. The characters however appear stereotypically irksome – an overprotective parent, feisty young daughter, know-it-all older brother, as well as bumbling baddies and buffoonish representatives of the law – whilst the storyline offers little opportunity other than to involve everyone in endless misunderstanding-induced chases. The animation – though by no means as bad as the recent Scottish abomination ''Sir Billi'' – is not much above the standard you'd expect from a made-for-television film, which A Monster Christmas was originally intended as."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.starburstmagazine.com/reviews/dvd-and-blu-ray-home-entertainment-reviews/7170-dvd-review-a-monster-christmas|title=DVD review:A Monster Christmas|publisher=Starburst Magazine|access-date=21 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131116042351/http://www.starburstmagazine.com/reviews/dvd-and-blu-ray-home-entertainment-reviews/7170-dvd-review-a-monster-christmas |archive-date=16 November 2013}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * {{IMDb title|2445310|Abominable Christmas}}

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