A Christmas Story 2 (2012)

Directed by

Brian Levant

Genre

comedy film, Christmas film

Country

United States, Canada

Runtime

1h 25m

Rated

PG

Rating

5.1 of 10 from 72 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Fifteen-year-old Ralphie wants a 1939 Mercury Eight convertible for Christmas. He crashes the car before he even owns it and has to raise money for repairs with his friends.

nostalgicwhimsicallightheartedgoofysentimentalslow-pacedmildpredictable

What happens

A Christmas Story 2 is a 2012 American Christmas comedy film directed by Brian Levant and starring Daniel Stern and Braeden Lemasters. The film is a direct sequel to the 1983 film A Christmas Story and ignores the events of the 1994 film My Summer Story. The film, set six years after the original, follows fifteen-year-old Ralphie as he wishes for a 1939 Mercury Eight convertible for Christmas, but crashes the car before he even owns it. Now, Ralphie and his friends, Flick and Schwartz, must find a way to raise enough money to fix the car before Christmas. Although billed as an "official sequel" in the trailer, the film is not directly based on any of Jean Shepherd's writings nor is he involved due to his death in 1999. Instead, it has an original script by Nat Mauldin, who also narrates in place of the late Shepherd (the subplot of Ralphie and his friends finding jobs and getting fired was originally by Shepherd and had previously been included in Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss). The film was released straight to DVD by Warner Home Video on October 30, 2012, to mostly negative reviews. A second direct sequel, which takes place 33 years after the events of the original film with most of its original cast returning, titled A Christmas Story Christmas, was released on November 17, 2022, on HBO Max and received generally better critical reception. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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