The Tangerine Bear: Home in Time for Christmas!

The Tangerine Bear: Home in Time for Christmas!

Directed by Bert Ring

Produced by Hyperion Pictures, Family Home Entertainment

200061 min6.7 / 10

A heartwarming Christmas-themed animated tale about a misfit teddy bear and his toy friends finding belonging and purpose through friendship and hope.

When Tangie, a teddy bear goes into the Smile-erator on his head, his smile is put on upside down, causing him to end up on the bargain bin on Christmas Eve with other misfit toys, then onto Winkle's Emporium, a discount store. There, Tangie does his level best over the coming year to become a part of some family. He spends his time in Winkle's front window with Jack, a Jack-in-the-box with claustrophobia and Bird, a cuckoo clock bird with agorophobia.

Questions people ask

  • Is The Tangerine Bear: Home in Time for Christmas! easy watching? Yes, very. More comforting than 98% of films.

  • Is The Tangerine Bear: Home in Time for Christmas! violent? No. Less violent than 92% of films.

  • Does The Tangerine Bear: Home in Time for Christmas! end with hope? Yes, very. More hopeful than 92% of films.

  • Is The Tangerine Bear: Home in Time for Christmas! scary? Barely. Less frightening than 84% of films.

  • Is The Tangerine Bear: Home in Time for Christmas! sad? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

49/ 100

Cinnamon Score

How much this film gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.

Familiar shape, done well.

Rarity36

How unlike any other film this one feels

Surprise58

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love55

How much audiences actually like it

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Similar, pushed toward heavier and more intense.

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Similar, pushed toward warmer and easier.

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Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.

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