- Content: “A Christmas-Themed Adventure”
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What You Need To Know:
With a strong moral worldview, IF YOU GIVE A MOUSE A CHRISTMAS COOKIE, is a delightful, wholesome, well-made, slow-paced show that young children will love, but skips the real reason for the season, which is the birth of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The episode features important themes of selflessness for children that teach that the season is more about whom you’re sharing it with, not how nice the decorations look. MOVIEGUIDE® advises slight caution for young children due to characters jumping, climbing, or falling in cartoonish fashion.
Content:
A strong moral worldview where characters work to fix their mistakes, the main character has strong morals and is almost a parent-figure to the supporting characters, teaching them about the world. Mouse is a consistently troublesome character with poor impulse control, but overall good in his intentions towards others – even if he can be selfish in his initial actions. Characters discuss Santa Clause and don’t explore the true meaning of Christmas – which is to celebrate the birth of the savior, Jesus Christ;
No language;
Light cartoon violence as characters fall, climb, or jump from high places, characters falling in cartoonish fashion;
No sex;
No nudity;
No alcohol use;
No smoking or drug use; and,
A character is disobedient and can’t control his impulses. Characters lie about what they’re doing around town to another character who is worried about not finding his friend before the Christmas show. They lie because they don’t want to upset him, but the main character reveals later that the show would have been just as great without the decorations.
More Detail:
It’s Christmas Eve, and Mouse wakes up to the smell of cookies coming from the bedroom. Finding his human friend, Oliver, already out of bed, Mouse jumps and rolls down the hall on a roller skate and ziplines down into the living room and into the Christmas tree. Flying into the kitchen using a ribbon, he finds Oliver baking sugar cookies in different shapes. Confused, Mouse asks why these cookies aren’t round.
Oliver explains that they’re Christmas cookies. Mouse nervously tries one, and then, of course, needs a glass of milk. Oliver explains that the best part about Christmas cookies is leaving them out for Santa. They get to work on making a special cookie just for Santa in the next batch. With a song, Mouse makes snow angels in the flower and skates on the baking sheets with a pat of butter.
As the smell of the cookies wafts through the neighborhood, all the animal neighbor friends are drawn to Oliver’s house for a smell. Oliver invites them in to help decorate the cookies.
Suddenly, realizing he is late, Oliver runs to his room. The animals are confused, and Mouse tells them he must be late for the holiday show’s rehearsal. Pig wishes she could be in a show. Mouse tells the others that Oliver’s performance is a surprise and goes to see if Oliver needs any help.
He asks Oliver again what he will be doing in the show. Oliver reminds him that it is a surprise and he’ll have to wait. Mouse says he can’t wait, but Oliver thinks he should find something to keep him busy. Mouse sneaks into his backpack without Oliver realizing it. When he can’t find Mouse before leaving, he assumes he’s in the kitchen with the others. He says goodbye to the group, but the animals know that Mouse isn’t with them. Cat suspects there’s something funny going on.
At the auditorium, Mouse is discovered, and Oliver walks him outside, repeating that he must just be patient to see his performance. As Mouse sulks off and turns the corner, he finds the other animals. They demand to know what’s going on and decide they also want to know about Oliver’s performance. They try to sneak into the building.
They do eventually get in, but after rehearsal is over, and everyone is gone. They check out the decorations on the stage. As Pig dances on stage, they knock over the beautiful decorations, and the fire sprinklers go off. The show is ruined!
Mouse stays positive and says that if there’s a problem, then there’s a solution. They work together to try to put things together. But will they be able to save the show and see Oliver’s surprise performance?
With a strong moral worldview, IF YOU GIVE A MOUSE A CHRISTMAS COOKIE, is a delightful, wholesome, well-made, slow-paced show that young children will love, but skips the real reason for the season, which is the birth of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The episode features important themes of selflessness for children that teach that the season is more about whom you’re sharing it with, not how nice the decorations look. MOVIEGUIDE® advises slight caution for young children due to characters jumping, climbing, or falling in cartoonish fashion.
