THE MUNSTERS' SCARY LITTLE CHRISTMAS (1996) ** Falls on its big ole square bolt-secured head right out of the gate: it's in color and none of the cast members has anything on the original tv cast, especially the Tory Spelling look-alike cast as the one who's supposed to be good looking. Wasn't there also some problem because the original Grandpa was available but not selected? With two or three strikes on them a lot of batters cut down on their swing, and this is done nicely. The writers work through their own partially self-inflicted difficulties by focusing on the neighborhood that must be mocked, so you're glad that someone is around to do it. Highlights include the latter day bourgeoisie/yuppie lady stabbing, beating, and drowning Santa Claus, who has been transformed into a fruitcake. The art critic community decorating contest judges are great. The new grandpa's alchemy kit features, repeatedly and front and center, what is clearly a continental pint of yummy golden ale. These guys don't want to make you forget the original Munsters, they just wanna have fun. Can the Munsters help Santa overcome the insurgent elves? Perhaps, but only if they recruit bikers. The closing scene, the most Halloween looking Christmas party filmed to date, is in the letter and spirit of those iconoclastic individualists from the past, and Transylvania.
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