Director: David Carson, Herbert Wise
Stars: Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Scott Cohen, John Larroquette, Daniel Lapaine, Ann-Margaret, Ed O'Neil, Dianne West
Okay, so this isn't a Christmas movie. Not at all. In fact, it's technically a mini-series. But it IS a fairy tale. And it IS about 7 hours long, and what other day of the year do you have all that time to watch such a long movie? My sister and I spent a few Christmases this way.
How to describe this one without taking forever????? That is the question....
Prince Wendell (Lapaine) is forced by his step-mother the Evil Queen (West) to switch places with a golden retriever! He does escape from her, however, and accidentally falls through a travelling mirror into New York, a completely foreign and unknown Kingdom. The Queen sends 3 trolls and a half-wolf named Wolf (Cohen) after the dog. The dog runs into Virginia Lewis (Williams-Paisley), and that's how she and her father Tony (Larroquette) come into the story, taking the dog in and discovering he is not at all what he seems.
When they all get back into the other 9 Kingdoms, the mission is to get Wendell the dog back to his castle for his coronation, and somehow to turn him back into a human. But, naturally, there's much more to the story than that! Wolf's growing feelings for Virginia, Virginia's desperate search for the magic mirror to get them home, Tony's uncanny ability to get into lots of trouble make this quite an adventure!
It's really cheesy, so I'm not making any guarantees. But, personally, I love it!
Sucking elf! I'll tell you what other day of the year you'd watch this, a rainy day in June! : )
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