This is my favorite Christmas Story, so to have Disney make a movie of it was exciting to me!!! Prior to the release of the film, there was a One Day Behind the Scenes Tour for this movie that I took my family too and we saw a sneak peek.. we already KNEW we were going to love it. We could n't wait to see the movie and it was AWESOME! I don't recommend this to younger children, there is some dark parts (where the screen goes black!) and some scary parts too for them too. My youngest is 9 and he was ok. The storyline was great, the graphics were great.. Jim Carey was great..I can't wait to buy this on video!