I come with upsetting news. A Chuck E. Cheese Christmas, a new streaming special on Prime Nov. 27 that clocks in at about 45 minutes, is not—I repeat, not—a live-action film with enormous animatronic rodents and waterfowl singing Leiber and Stoller soundalikes about the reason for the season. It is, in fact, just a regular cartoon.

Learning this is quite likely a disappointment—perhaps as disappointing as an order of mozzarella sticks that are nowhere near as gooey as the ones pictured on a plastic-covered menu. That being said, A Chuck E. Cheese Christmas is not entirely without merit, and once one accepts the Original Sin-like misfire the producers made concerning its format, one can still have a reasonably good time watching it if a young person in your life commands you to.

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