It won two 2009 Jussi Awards, in addition to one nomination, including Best Film. However, if you're looking for something odd, quirky, eye-opening or original, look somewhere else. as The Flight Before Christmas, and Niko & the Way to the Stars in other English-speaking countries) is a 2008 Danish-Finnish-German-Irish CGI-animated Christmas movie.
If you're looking for something to watch with your kids around Xmas, I can recommend this.
Perhaps with all this it is a bit bland, but still likable. It's exciting at times, but not too scary for young children. Flight Before Christmas is a magical drive-through festive experience with dazzling. There's family friendly humor and family values, there are no odd quirks, cussing or violence.
The Flight Before Christmas (2008) Full Movie Free cartoons online, Watchcartoononline, Toonova, English dub anime. Watch The Flight Before Christmas (2008) Cartoon Online Full Movie on KimCartoon in high quality. Niko is a reindeer with big dreams to be a member of Santa's Flying Forces reindeer troupe. At a standard issue family entertainment level this film performs competently. The characters' lines were full of clumsy Anglicisms.īecause of this, I have a feeling that native English viewers will enjoy this film more than Finnish viewers. Considering the country of origin, I was expecting a bit better Finnish translation though. I wondered about this, but a friend explained to me the film is actually primarily intended for the international, mainly American market, and was written and lip-synced accordingly. It's written, produced and animated in Finland - yet the Finnish version of the film feels like an American animation film that has been translated and dubbed into Finnish. From a Finn's standpoint this film felt a bit odd. After his disobedient visit outside the valley and a consequent incident with the wolves which forces the reindeer to move on, Niko decides to run away and look for his father further north where Santa resides. The reindeer aren't allowed to go outside the valley because of the wolves who stalk there. Niko is supervised and taken care of by a flying squirrel named Julius who believes Niko will be able to fly someday, just like his father. Niko's father is gone, and his mother tells him dad is a member of Santa's Flying Reindeer Squad. Niko and the Way to the Stars is an animated story of a young reindeer boy Niko, taking place somewhere in Lapland.