Christmas was on its way, I was prepared to try as many festive films as possible, even the terrible sounding ones, so I saw this one, directed by Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge from Star Trek: The Next Generation, LeVar Burton. Basically eccentric Aunt Millie (Little Voice's Brenda Blethyn) starts telling her ten year old niece Jess Cameron (Jennifer Pisana) a story about another ten year old, to help her get over best friend Bobby (Demetrius Joyette) moving away. So the story begins, ten year old Katie Andrews (Zoe Warner) is trying to become a champion ice skater, the one thing she loves in the world, and she practises in the rink near her house to get ready. She makes a friend with former Olympic skating champion Otto Brewer, but she is shattered when her father Ted (J.D. Nicholsen) loses his job and they have to move to the city. Meanwhile, in the North Pole, a new reindeer is born to parents Blitzen (Leif Bristow) and Delphi (Ellen-Ray Hennessy), and Santa Claus (Christopher Plummer) names it Blizzard. As she grows up, Blizzard (Whoopi Goldberg) finds out she is more special than most other reindeer, possessing all three gifts: flight, invisibility, and empathic navigation - seeing with her heart. With this third gift, Blizzard feels Katie's sadness, so going against the rules given by Archimedes (Kevin Pollak), she flies to find the little girl and investigate. They meet and become friends very quickly, the reindeer wants to her to realise her dream to skate in a championship, and she also teaches her that friends never go anywhere if you remember them. Archimedes finds out about the rule breaks by Blizzard and one or two of her friends, and threatens banishment, but Santa forgives her and Katie, who did win the skating competition, and even though Blizzard flies away out of her life, in the present an older Millie Katie Andrews still feels her. Goldberg is okay as the smart-mouthed reindeer with all the gifts and a big heart, and the skating sequence was alright, but the best is as the critics say just a load of slush and predictable material. It may appeal to the much younger audience, and possibly if all the family gather for the season, but for me, a silly Christmas fantasy adventure. Adequate!