For reasons that are long and complicated, my family already has it's Christmas tree up.

Long Story short, my sister is having issues with depression and anxiety. 

While we were putting the tree together, my sister switched on Disney+ and started their new, original Christmas movie.

Titled "Noelle", it stars Anna Kendrick and Bill Hader, with Shirley MacLaine and Julie "Does anyone know how to fly a plane" Hagerty as "Mrs. Claus" 

Spoilers (but then again, unless you live in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand or the Netherlands, you can't watch it till next year anyway...)

It's a straight up paint by numbers affair.

Name a trope related to a Christmas movie involving Santa Claus and it basically hit's every branch on the way down.

Elf/ Christmas related puns in place of normal words? It's about as bad as My Little Pony. 

Santa needs replacement? Check. 

The replacement isn't up for the job? Check

Santa is missing? Check

Santa is stuck in a city in the American Sunbelt? Check.

Someone tries to change the Status Quo at the North Pole? Check

Throw in a dash of Elf's fish out of water.

And this was all within the first hour.

Kendrick plays the title character, Noelle Kringle, and Hader plays her older brother Nick Kringle. When their father Chris dies (Which thankfully happens off screen to not traumatize the kids...), Nick is thrust into the job.

He sucks at it. The stress is on the verge of breaking him. So Noelle suggests he get away for a weekend. When he doesn't come back, their cousin Gabe Kringle takes over the role of Santa and tries to turn the North Pole in Amazon Prime... So, it's off the most Christmasy city in the world to save Christmas... 

Phoenix, Arizona...

I'm going to leave it off there, but... I'm gonna be honest. It's basically a mix of "Elf" with "The Santa Clause" and "Earnest Saves Christmas"