Help For The Holidays

Summer Glau already looks like an elf so this gets points for casting right off the bat, and her pixie energy helps make the familiar "mythical being in the real world which is strange and confusing to them," plotline more digestible. It's an uphill battle considering the predicable, nausea inducing obligatory romance and the all too familiar parental neglect motifs, so good thing Summer can hold it together to make it good holiday viewing (and per usual, impossible to take the rest of the year). Nausea factor moderate. Christmas factor high. MSG Approved.