A Christmas Story 2
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| Directed by | Brian Levant |
| Produced by | Brian Levant Phillip B. Goldfine |
| Written by | Nat Mauldin |
| Based on | Characters created by Jean Shepherd |
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| Narrated by | Nat Mauldin |
| Music by | David Newman |
| Cinematography | Jan Kiesser |
| Edited by | Roger Bondelli |
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Hollywood Media Bridge
Telvan Productions |
| Distributed by | Warner Premiere |
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Running time
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86 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
A Christmas Story 2 (also known in the trailer as A Christmas Story 2: Official Sequel) is a 2012 film directed by Brian Levant and starring Braeden Lemasters. The film is a direct sequel to the 1983 film A Christmas Story, which ignores the events of the 1994 film My Summer Story. It was released straight to DVD on October 30, 2012.
Although billed as an "official sequel" in the trailer, the film is not based on Jean Shepherd's writings, instead relying on an original script by Nat Mauldin.
The film takes place six years after the events of the first film, which took place in 1940. Ralphie is now fifteen years old, and all he wants is a used 1939 Mercury Eight convertible for Christmas. He accidentally causes the car to roll back out of the used car lot and gently tap a light pole, causing a plastic reindeer on the pole to loosen and fall through the convertible top, so he bands together with Flick and Schwartz to raise enough money to pay the dealer back for fixing it before Christmas so that the car dealer won't have Ralphie arrested and presumably thrown in jail (he would have to go to court and be found guilty first and even then jail is probably unlikely). he and his friends get a job and after going through several departments at the Higbees store and in the end getting into a fight with the store Santa and then each other they all get fired. Ralphie does get his job back after begging and demanding so he does raise the money but donates a chunk for a less fortunate family. He winds up still off the hook with the owner of the dealership. In the end he does get the car he wants for Christmas and the girlfriend he wants to go with it.
Initial reception to the film's trailer was predominantly negative, with Slash Film calling it "sad".
FleshEatingZipper panned the movie, writing that the slapstick elements in the film detracted from the movie while praising the attempt to "replicate a 40s-era Midwest". Brian Orndorf of Blu-ray.com wrote, "Shamelessly derivative and plasticized, A Christmas Story 2 will only have you wondering why you're not watching the original picture again."
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