Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Brenda The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

huggibear I don't remember ever seeing this as a child and I grew up in that era. In fact, I was 6 years old. Yes, it's only 25 minutes long, but you think it would have came on during the Holidays every year. And back then, we didn't have the number of TV/Cable channels that we do now. It was only the major networks (ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, etc). Still, I'm just now watching this. It's kind of cute for a 70's animation and it has a decent lesson in it, if you brake something, then you must try to find a way to fix it. This is a good one for young children. And who can forget the famous Christmas poem by Clement Moore? I used to know all the words, but I couldn't recite them as well last night when I watched it. Are you new to watching this one as well? See how well you remember the famous poem! Definitely a great CLASSIC for the Holidays!

Michael_Elliott 'Twas the Night Before Christmas (1974) ** 1/2 (out of 4) A small town learns that Santa isn't coming because a know-it-all mouse wrote him an insulting letter telling him that he wasn't real. The people of this town must try and find a way for Santa to change his mind while the trouble maker's father teaches him a lesson on why even if you don't believe you shouldn't ruin the fun for everyone else. This is yet another charming short from the Bass-Rankin team who were masters at bringing this Christmas tales to television. This one here certainly isn't one of my favorites but there are enough nice characters to make it worth watching. The animation here is quite crude but I think this works in the film's favor and it certainly helps bring the mice to life. I thought the father-son mice were very good and their story was certainly the most entertaining thing here. The human characters weren't nearly as interesting but we are treated to a couple nice tunes and there's no question that the message is a good one and it gets across very nicely.

Julia Arsenault (ja_kitty_71) This is another Christmas special from Rankin/Bass that I had grew up with, along Rudolph and Frosty of course; also another favorite too. It is like I said, another thing that I love about Rankin/Bass are the memorable characters (like The Trundles and the little mouse family too), and also the music and songs too. I love to sing the song "Christmas chimes are calling." I also would like to point out, that I have recognize little Albert's voice as Molly Grue's from the film "The Last Unicorn" - Tammy Grimes. There are a lot of excellent casting in many Rankin/Bass specials and films.

lordzedd-3 Rankin and Bass does it again. The music is what makes this special truly special. Rankin and Bass make some of the best musical specials ever in the history of Television and 'Twas The Night Before Chrismtas is no exception. It's fun, it's heartwarming, it's everything you would expect from a holiday special. But it's not perfect, I think I should note some major goofs in the animation. The reindeer mainly, the ears are too round, they look more like reinmice then reindeer and the sleigh bells are too large. I mean these are huge bells. Too big. But other then that it does a great job in entertaining and teaching a message about keeping an open mind to the unknown. 9 STARS to a true classic.