It was my first time watching it, and I think it could be a good fit for a Christmas movie if you're tired of the usual picks every year. Of course I'm talking about the first one only, forget about its sequels. This is a nice, self-contained story as is. You have the Lion who obviously represents Christ, you have explicit and wholesome "Merry Christmas" scene, there's a good valuable message for kids and siblings alike about not being cunts to each other as members of their own family, a message about the price and consequence of betrayal, a group of allies helping each other through thick and thin despite their differences, and the movie didn't even cuck out with the typical "if you kill them they win" moment, the final battle is epic, they go all in, and the cunt boss bitch gets demolished as she should along with the evil she represented, although the ending reeked a bit of "it was all in le head" feel, but what can you do. The scene at the start about Germans bombing muh innocent britbong cities is quite heavy-handed, but again it's probably just a sign of the times when the source material was written. It aged slightly worse than LOTR with obvious green screen effects at times, and its sequels are obviously dogwater, but I loved the application of practical effects and using actual animals for certain shots in this one. Probably one of the last watchable Disney movies, too. Overall, decent, my friend even told me they liked it a lot more now than when they had watched it as kids.