Just because a movie is set during Christmas doesnāt mean itās a good Christmas movie. Some movies simply use Christmas as a sort of emotional backdrop for their naughty deeds. Meanwhile, other movies use the holiday as a narrative device meant to highlight a characterās road to redemption and triumph with a feeling of togetherness familiar to all. Itās easy to tell whatās a Christmas movie. Itās not so easy to tell which ones are naughty and which ones are nice.
A movie overflowing with cursing like Friday After Next is actually a nicer Christmas movie than the family-centric Home Alone because the former uses the feeling of Christmas goodness to overcome its vulgar obstacles while the latter is entirely about an innocent kid surviving a life-or-death situation. One filmās core is a quest to engineer a Christmas miracle to save characters from homelessness, and the other film is just a home invasion comedy thriller set during Christmas.
All of this and more will be explained once you dive into our examples of some of the best naughty and nice Christmas movies.
