Nativity 3: Dude, Where's My Donkey?! (2014)

Sorry, this movie sucks

Absolutely brilliant

It's complicated... I really like the directing, acting and writing but, there are issues with the way it's shot that I just can't deny. As much as I love the storytelling and the fantastic performance but, there are also certain scenes that didn't need to exist.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

The first Nativity is a reasonable merry film, the sequel Danger in the Manger! was disappointing, I knew that the critics were less than positive about this third instalment, but I was still willing to give it a chance when the festive period came around, directed by Debbie Isitt (Confetti). Basically Mr. Desmond Poppy (Marc Wootton) is excited to tell his pupils at St. Bernadette's Catholic school in Coventry they are going to enter a flash mob competition and win the chance to dance on top of the Empire State Building. But headteacher Mrs. Bevan, also his aunt, has been replaced by new headteacher Mrs. Keen (Celia Imrie), she knows he is not a qualified teacher, and she wants everything in order as she is expecting a visit from an inspector. Starting at the school is new teacher Mr. Jeremy Shepherd (Martin Clunes), who will soon be marrying his fiancée Sophie O'Donnell (Catherine Tate), he is not happy with the idea of Mr. Poppy using Archie the Donkey in their new nativity play. Then things go chaotic when Mr. Shepherd is kicked in the head by the donkey, he loses his memory and all knowledge about Christmas, so Mr. Poppy, Mr. Shepherd's daughter Lauren (Lauren Hobbs) and the other children work together to try to help him remember everything. The children perform their routine in the middle of London, along with many other flash mob groups, including that of old rival Gordon Shakespeare (Jason Watkins), his group win the competition, but Mr. Poppy and Mr. Shepherd manage to swindle their way onto the plane to the Big Apple, posing as the winning school. There Mr. Shepherd is reunited with Sophie, but he cannot show any love he may or may or not have for her, she does not realise it is because he cannot remember her, Mr. Poppy and the children do everything they can to help him prove he is still the man she loves, while also causing chaos in the hotel. The only problem is, the competition judge Bradley Finch (Adam Garcia), an ex-boyfriend of Sophie, is trying to woo her, when he realises Mr. Shepherd has memory loss, he uses this to his advantage. Eventually Mr. Shepherd tells Sophie he has lost his memory, she realises he is telling the truth, but this only increases her doubts in marrying him, which really upsets Lauren. It looks like Sophie has been convinced into marrying Finch, but then Christmas magic occurs, Mr. Shepherd blows some glitter from his hand, and suddenly he remembers being kicked in the head by the donkey, and all his memories return. In the end, Mr. Shepherd manages to stop the wedding of Sophie and Finch, he and she rekindle their love and get married, and Mr. Poppy and the children finally get to perform their dance on top of the Empire State Building, with Archie the Donkey. Also starring Ralf Little as Sophie's Brother, Coronation Street's Susie Blake as Sophie's Mum, Emmerdale's Duncan Preston as Sophie's Dad, Stewart Wright as Uncle Henry (Hotel Manager) and David Hunter as Mr. Parker. Clunes, following in the footsteps of Martin Freeman and David Tennant, is alright being hapless, Wootton has become creepy as opposed to a loveable idiot, at least the children are still cute and talented, it has plenty of song and dance numbers, some good some naff, but it is a predictable and silly story full of dismal jokes, and it is too long and too childish, as a family film it is one to avoid, an awful seasonal comedy. Pretty poor!

Nativity 3 very much scrapes the bottom of the yuletide barrel. Martin Clunes is the new teacher Jeremy Shepherd who along with his daughter Lauren is looking forward to getting married to his fiancée Sophie (Catherine Tate) in New York but he is also wary of her ex boyfriend, a famous singer who plans to do an impromptu flash mob for Sophie.Mr Shepherd has to deal with Mr Poppy (Marc Wootton) the man-child classroom assistant who has recently been sacked by the new temporary head teacher in advance of the school inspection.Mr Shepherd loses his memory after being kicked in the head by a donkey. Mr Poppy plans to take the school kids to New York by winning a flash mob contest in London and also hopes to get Me Shepherd's memory back so he can marry Sophie.I think only the very young would like this dull film. School kids randomly start to sing and dance for no reason. The story is thin and grossly stupid. Mr Poppy should be locked up to protect the children and when the story moves to New York he inexplicably starts to behave like an adult.

Spoilers.This film was brilliant. I took all my 34 kids to see it, not one of them showed a dislike in the film. The show stopper was when the donkey started to dance. Hahaha,funny. I recommend this film to all families. Hoping for a 4th Nativity.

This film is the haunting tale of a man who receives a traumatic brain injury and develops severe amnesia, losing his entire identity and becoming a hollow man, with nothing but a name to himself. Watch as a formerly intelligent, articulate man is reduced to babbling and bumbling around, becoming a grotesque parody of the jester figure; coerced into parading around in funny outfits, much to the amusement of his tormentors, unable to recognise what, exactly, is so funny as he struggles to remember the name of his own daughter or how to connect with his family and the woman he loves. With his mental faculties reduced, his ability to relate to his fellow man diminished, and his sense of self completely erased, the man is kidnapped by a learning disabled teaching assistant and must rely on the assistance of a group of neglected, displaced children to teach him about his own past and, perhaps, the true meaning of Christmas. But hey, there are some pretty nifty fart jokes.