X-Men: The Animated Series (TV Series) Have Yourself a Morlock Little X-Mas (1995) User Reviews

"Please Wolvie... For Me..."(dialog)

[A_Different_Drummer · 9/10 · 2 May 2014]

Gosh golly Miss Molly, the IMDb rating for this episode is tiny bit harsh, no doubt because the Xers are not breaking furniture or saving the universe in this one. I have already opined in a review of the entire series that, irregardless of the decade in which it was made, this was (and is) a spectacular version of the X-Men saga, with great stories, animation and voices. In this episode, however, the production team behind the series decided to aim for a more Dickens-like approach, a X-Mas story somewhere between ITS A WONDERFUL LIFE and THE TWILIGHT ZONE, by way of Inside Stan Lee. Did they succeed? Harsh IMDb rating aside, I think they did. They wanted to remind viewers about an event that comes "but once a year," and in my view the story -- about what it's like to have X-Mas if you are a green boy mutant living in poverty in the sewers, living on stolen food -- pretty much nails it. A good night to all ... and to all a good night..

Beautiful

[derelict_98 · 9/10 · 2 June 2024]

The lighter tone of this episode must be what caused such a low rating in most users. There are practically no major action scenes and no antagonists appear. The atmosphere is light, expressed even in occasional moments of humor in the X-Mansion I started watching with low expectations based on the IMDB rating, but I saw a beautiful Christmas tale that reminds us that heroism (and super heroism) also manifests itself in peaceful acts of empathy and solidarity.

The curiosity is that the shopping and skating scene near Rockefeller Center is reminiscent of a similar scene in the comics in the Claremont-Byrne era of X-Men in the 80s.