A chance encounter between Chrystal and a mysterious mall Santa (Russell Peters), leads to a remarkable development: Chrystal, wishing for a friend to understand her, discovers she can suddenly communicate with Grumpy, who proves to be just as dyspeptic as her pushed-in little face suggests.
However, mall rats and would-be rockers Donny and Zack (Isaac Haig and Evan Todd) decide they’re going to steal JoJo…if they can evade the watchful eye of mall security guard George (Daniel Roebuck), a friend of Chrystal’s. Marcus, however, has an ace up his sleeve: his rare dog, JoJo (voice talent of Stephen Stanton) is worth over a million dollars, so Marcus will use him as much-needed publicity for the store, before he sells him. Indicative of Marcus’ financial troubles is Grumpy Cat (voice “talent” of Aubrey Plaza), a puss who keeps getting returned to Marcus’ store because she’s too…grumpy.
RELATED | Read more of our Christmas movie reviews Helping out at the mall’s pet store, Chrystal is unaware that the owner, Marcus (David Lewis), is soon to be evicted by mall manager Gil Brockman (Tyler Johnston), for non-payment of rent. Sensitive, lonely 12-year-old Chrystal (Megan Charpentier, the only bright note here) spends most of her off-school time at the mall where her divorced mother (Shauna Johannesen) works. Unfortunately, it doesn’t in-between the on-screen requests for tweets and merchandise orders (see, they’re honest about their greed…that makes it okay), it only asks from us cheap, queasy snorts of contempt…and it can’t even manage to scrounge up those for this complete failure. No, this “holiday” movie’s most egregious outrage is that it relentlessly promotes and upholds skepticism and derision and nothingness for its own sake…which would have been just fine if Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever had actually entertained while it was castigating itself and us. Your purchase helps us pay the bills at this website! Starring that internet “sensation,” Grumpy Cat (a.k.a Tardar Sauce-yes, the goddamn thing is still alive…with almost 3 million Instagram followers), along with Megan Charpentier, Daniel Roebuck, Russell Peters, and that rival to Audrey Hepburn, Aubrey Plaza as the voice of Grumpy Cat, Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever‘s biggest offense isn’t its incredibly stupid knock-off plot, or Plaza’s profoundly unfunny vocal delivery and ad-libs, or the movie’s tone of self-referential self-loathing (which is a phony put-on, anyway), or even the fact that Grumpy herself is so unengaging.Ĭlick to purchase Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever on DVD at. Lionsgate is still hawking DVDs of Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever, a 2014 made-for-TV movie that unfortunately will be shown yet again on Lifetime this season. Hey, who doesn’t like their Lifetime Christmas cat movies with child rape jokes thrown in?! I’m gonna take my time skinning this particular cat….