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The Swan Princess Christmas

Play trailer Poster for The Swan Princess Christmas PG 2012 1h 24m Kids & Family Holiday Musical Adventure Fantasy Animation Play Trailer Watchlist
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A kingdom unites to prevent a villain from destroying Christmas.
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The Swan Princess Christmas

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S. Jhoanna Robledo Common Sense Media May 5, 2014
2/5
Animated sequel lacks magic; some mild violence. Go to Full Review
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Tristan S @RT32438714 5 days ago Unmerry Christmas to you swan dummy!!!! See more Nicholas t @nicktalbert2025 Feb 11, 2026 Anime swan princess 🎄 badly See more Monty G @Montyginger Jan 1, 2026 One of my all time favorite holiday movies. It’s fun, magical, emotional and the cat itself is iconic See more Cyrus K @Keyflame626 Dec 10, 2022 OH GOD WHY DOES THIS MOVIE EXIST! See more May 21, 2020 My god! Is that a CGI Christmas Movie? See more Carlotta 4 @RT17636057 Jun 21, 2018 I feel the need to start this off saying that I'm already a bit prejudiced against Christmas specials. Oh, not the MORALS that they want to teach (loving each other and selfless giving is totally fine) but shoving Santa/Jesus down our throats with constant "tis the season and nothing at all can be imperfect during christmas and everyone is SO HAPPY ALL THE TIME THIS TIME OF YEAR" makes my gag reflex start churning. So that being said that I'm already not the target audience for christmas specials: The shift to 3D animation could have been worse than it actually turned out. Now it's not GOOD but it could definitely have been worse. Traditional animation is pretty expensive and these are direct to DVD sequels, so I'm going to actually list that as a plus--the "it could have been so much worse" bonus. I'd say the animation is about on par with if not sliiiiiiightly better than the Barbie movies. Can we stop turning Odette into a swan? I get that's the brand franchise and all, but it really only worked in the first film and has been unnecessarily tacked on in every one since. The "spirit of christmas" defeating Rothbart is dumb. I can't believe that's the climax it makes so little sense and triggers that previously mentioned gag reflex so much. ...frankly that's all I remember about the plot because the rest of it was pretty generic. Well, generic minus the sudden jukebox musical of popular songs at the end, oh THAT was a special form of torment. So in summary: it's a direct to dvd film made to target little girls and parents who will buy anything with the word "christmas" on it. Nothing here for adults, but really--were you expecting this to be a good film? The title is "The Swan Princess Christmas." You knew what you were getting into. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis A kingdom unites to prevent a villain from destroying Christmas.
Director
Richard Rich
Producer
Richard Rich, Jared F. Brown, Seldon Young
Screenwriter
Yuri Lowenthal
Production Co
Crest Animation Productions, Nest Family Entertainment
Rating
PG (Mild Perilous Action)
Genre
Kids & Family, Holiday, Musical, Adventure, Fantasy, Animation
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Nov 6, 2012, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Oct 8, 2013
Runtime
1h 24m
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