Each Christmas Eve, the Ghost of Christmas Present selects one dark soul to be reformed by a visit from three spirits. But this season, he picked the wrong Scrooge. Clint Briggs turns the tables on his ghostly host until Present finds himself reexamining his own past, present and future.
This movie contains 34 potentially triggering events.
No, however an uncle refuses to take custody of his niece when his sister dies because he thinks he's too busy and wouldn't be good at looking after her. The girl goes to live with her other uncle and is fine.
Clint could have a trauma disorder from his childhood, and Present shows extreme guilt that could be associated with trauma and/or OCD. But no confirmed mental illnesses.
Yes, but he’s only a simulation of a person, and he doesn’t die. Near the end, he’s seen dancing with the other characters (while still on fire) as if he’s perfectly fine.
Ryan Reynolds falls down the stairs and hits his head against a metal pole. The actual hit is not shown, but you do hear a clang and see the aftermath.
There is a funeral for a child who is implied to have committed suicide, but this takes place in a future that ends up not happening. That said, it still feels very real in the moment and is one of the darker moments of the movie.
No toy destroyed, but a child is told he got a dog for Christmas and it’s his fault it “ran away” when he left a door open. The dog does not actually exist and he goes looking for it alone outside.
This movie is safe! I feel compelled to say that the “v*m*t” emoji is shown briefly twice. Only for a couple seconds tho. Just in case that bothers anyone.
It’s a Christmas Carol, so there’s a big emphasis on dealing with your past trauma. This means past trauma does affect the characters, but none of them are specifically said to have PTSD or shown to suffer from obvious symptoms like flashbacks outside of the spiritual events
There is one scene where Will Ferrell is singing and the backup dancers have lights on there hands. They swirl them around and it makes a lot of flashing lights.
YES, it is, in the very end, when we see not only the actors and extras, but crew members as well, all of whom yell "Merry Christmas!" at the camera. One person jumps in front of the camera, very close to the lens (so close he's blurry), with arms raised and mouth wide open in all his cheerful Christmas excitement, looking straight into the camera.
Actually, it's more like the movie gives a genial nod to people of non-Christian religions towards the end, when we're told that the redeeming department are expanding with entities such as "Ghost of Ramadan Past" and "Ghost of Hannukahs Yet-to-come". :)
There are jokes about a character’s suit being too tight, but they are not jokes about his body so much as jokes about the fact that the suit is clearly not his.
Technically speaking, a ghost character falls in love with a human, which is a very large age gap. However, physically and mentally he is shown to be about the same age as her, and ⚠️SPOILERS⚠️ when he turns back into a human, there is not a large age gap between them.
The credits start during the curtain call reprise of “Christmas Morning Feeling.” Immediately after that, we get to see a scene of a (very impressive) cut song, and a few seconds after that, there’s a short stinger scene. There’s really no point in skipping the credits, because they’re almost entirely filled with scenes.