You'll Shoot Your eye out!!

The 1983 classic tale of a kid and his hopes for the perfect Christmas gift. Not every child in the world wants a Red Ryder BB gun for that special end of the year holiday, but the drive that young Ralphie has is the same as all of us when we were his age. Think back, to when you saw that commercial or that ad in the paper and you became fixated on that present; wanting to open that and that specifically for Christmas. Along side of his goal of opening that long thin gift in the shape of his dreams are his everyday struggles; from an annoying puffed out brother, to the bully that once in a lifetime every kid had to deal with. With a range of films from "Porky's" to "Deathdream" and then back to this holiday classic; Bob Clark doesn't miss a step or in my mind have a talent more in one type of movie than the other. Bottom line, he is a good director no matter what script he is trying to bring to life. Winning 2 Genie Awards, both best Screenplay and best Achievement in direction for this movie, I couldn't imagine being alive without having this to put on around Christmas time. Such a good movie that in New York there is a station that plays 24 hours of this movie, back to back! Never seeming to be outdated as far as family antics, bad fake Santa Clauses at department stores, and beating up bullys to a bloody pulp in the snow. Thanks for giving us all something to watch during the holiday season.

Ralphie: Oooh fuuudge!
Ralphie as Adult: [narrating] Only I didn't say "Fudge." I said THE word, the big one, the queen-mother of dirty words, the "F-dash-dash-dash" word!
Mr. Parker: [stunned] *What* did you say?
Ralphie: Uh, um...
Mr. Parker: That's... what I thought you said. Get in the car. Go on!
Ralphie as Adult: [narrating] It was all over - I was dead. What would it be? The guillotine? Hanging? The chair? The rack? The Chinese water torture? Hmmph. Mere child's play compared to what surely awaited me.

7/10