That Christmas marks the second animated feature from British producer Locksmith Animation, which last made Ron’s Gone Wrong, distributed by Disney in 2021. Set to release December 4 on Netflix, here’s the newly-launched trailer for That Christmas:
I saw the film a while back and happy to report that it’s a quite charming work that effectively conveys the warm, fuzzy feelings of Christmastime. As evidenced by the trailer, the film doesn’t tonally look or feel like a big-budget cg feature made by a U.S. studio. Its Englishness sparks from iconic British screenwriter Richard Curtis (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, Love Actually), who originally created That Christmas as a children’s book series and adapted the screenplay himself with Peter Souter.
These unHollywood qualities are what attracted director Simon Otto to the project. “It’s not a classic Hollywood animated film plot where you have a single hero going on a journey,” he said in the film’s press notes. …