An Almost Christmas Story: Trailer, certificate and where to watch
Short Disney animation about a young owl in New York
Year: 2024
Certificate: u
Trapped with a broken wing in a tree that ends up becoming the centrepiece of the Rockefeller Center Christmas display, a young owl struggles to survive life in New York city. When she befriends an equally lost young girl named Luna, the pair team up to try and find a way back to their parents.
This gorgeous Disney Christmas (or almost Christmas) short film has 'holiday favourite' written through it like a stick of festive rock. The story is an uplifting hymn on unlikely friendships; the characters are a mix of the cute, the clever and the chortlesome, and the animation is simply gorgeous.
The polished classic Disney look is put on hold in order to deliver figures that feel like puppets carved roughly from wood, owing more to Eastern European folktales than Bambi and The Little Mermaid. It's simply gorgeous. (21 minutes)
