This animated movie [the Tomte Machine] had pretty cheesy effects. Most people I asked said two and a half stars. It was funny but had a predicable storyline, stereotypical characters and a recurring problem. It did however give people a good wholesome laugh or two with its whimsical jokes. It wasn’t the best drawing I’ve seen but it wasn’t the worst. Crazy and then and then and then type of story with the bulk of it about how the cat feels and not the Swedish inventor’s invention.

The story takes place in Sweden during Christmas as a troubled inventor named Pettson is forced to carve 100 wooden tomtes (elves that give presents.) To complicate it, his cat Fingus demands a visit from the “real” tomte, which Fingus doubts exists. Pettson is thrust into making a tomte machine that will activate a look-alike of a tomte plus he has to make a hundred of them out of wood. Any way, doesn’t that sound sorta predictable to a point? Of course you’ve gotta love the jokes i.e. sausage language, crazy metallic tomtes that blast smog at people. Overall I rate it (drum roll) C-, it’s all right, not great. So I do recommend watching it once, not twice, once.