Many consider it to be the greatest Christmas movie of all-time but I found “A Christmas Story” to be loud and annoying. I do not get why the film is so widely celebrated and why it continues to have such a significant impact.

Set in the 1940s, “A Christmas Story” follows a young boy by the name of Ralphie (Peter Billingsley), who has sights set on one gift in particular for Christmas. More than anything, Ralphie wants a Red Ryder BB gun and he will try his best to convince someone to get it for him. He tries his parents, his teacher and of course, Santa Claus but they all want to warn him of the dangers.

The Ralphie character is very bland. The whole film, he just hounds people for a BB gun and I can see where filmmakers got the inspiration for the kid in “Jingle All The Way” that wants the action figure. I struggled to empathise with Ralphie because he is so dull. The other characters in the movie are really boring as well. It’s pretty sad when the most interesting child is the one that gets his tongue stuck on a pole. Ralphie’s parents are irritating as well.

It might be viewed as a holiday classic by some people but I thought this was an awful movie. It is not funny with the only vaguely amusing scene being the one involving some Chinese restaurant workers. The movie focuses on some very strange elements as we are forced to spend a lot of time on a subplot involving a lamp shaped like a woman’s leg. The popularity of “A Christmas Story” is almost frightening considering how bizarre and poor it is. I do not care how alone I am on this one, “A Christmas Story” is a really bad movie.