Welcome back to Jolly Friday! Today we will be reviewing ABC Family’s Baby Daddy and Melissa and Joey Christmas Specials, and NBC’s Elf: Buddy’s Musical Christmas. Let’s get into these shows!
Although these specials premiered last week, I just had time to watch them and I felt they were appropriate for this edition of Jolly Fridays.
Baby Daddy Christmas Special
For this episode Emma has a pageant at her daycare and Ben’s mother wants everyone involved. She embarrasses Ben by making him wear an angel costume. Then his mother wants them to be the grand finale to the pageant, to which he disagrees again. (His mom won’t take no for an answer.) Ben feels like his Christmas is ruined because he has a lot to do and his dinner will be ruined (since Riley will be cooking and he said right in front of her that she can’t make anything right.) Ben upsets everyone by not helping out with the tree, Christmas dinner, and working on Christmas. After everyone gets upset, Ben wishes Christmas to never exist, and it actually happens. (No decorations and he also doesn’t have a daughter anymore.) Ben is confused and looks everywhere for his daughter. So, it turns out that Ben without Christmas has ruined everyone’s life. Ben tries to get everyone to believe in Christmas, but his friends think he’s crazy. Once he realizes what the true meaning of Christmas is, everything goes back to normal. Ben ends up doing the pageant and makes sure to enjoy the holiday with his daughter.
This show was okay. I liked the message, but it isn’t my cup of tea.
Melissa and Joey Christmas Special
In this episode, Melissa tells the story of her great great-grandmother to show the significance of the silver star she has, and she hopes it will be enough for it to go on top of the Christmas tree. Her grandmother is poor and on Christmas Eve she wants to impress this rich guy, Alistair, so that he will propose to her. (This will also save her home.) However, she doesn’t love him. So Josiah (Joe) tries to stop this because he actually loves her. Alistair does propose and they will get married that night. Mel has mixed feelings about the marriage. It turns out Josiah made the star and asks her to remember him when he is gone. After her father's sight is restored, he tells her to forget the money and only marry the one person that you love. Mel tells Josiah that she loves him and kisses him. Alistair sees it and decides to fight him to the death. In a twist it turns out, Josiah is Alistair’s brother. (This doesn’t make sense...) So, Mel and Josiah get married and they end up rich anyway.
This show was a lot better than Baby Daddy. It had some funny moments and I enjoyed it.
Elf: Buddy’s Musical Christmas
Elf is a Christmas movie that must be watched every year. I mean, I absolutely love it and can’t start the season without this movie. Most of us know the story of Buddy the elf who came to NYC to find his father. This NBC special has a little spin on the story, as they created a musical. Jim Parsons does a very good job of voicing (animated) Buddy, however I could not compare it to Will Ferrell’s performance of him in the original movie. The animation style was cute and clay-like, that we have seen in Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. (Classic!) I do feel that some of it was a little goofy, because some of the animals were cross-eyed, but I still liked it a lot. This special was very enjoyable and I would recommend everyone who loves this movie to watch it!
~Katrina
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