While you’re doing your Christmas shopping don’t forget to stop by the local video store and pick up an essential Holiday themed movie to enjoy watching with your family. There are plenty to choose from, but this year the two that seem to be a popular hit with kids is the polar express directed by Robert Zemeckis and includes the voices of several Hollywood stars like Tom Hanks. The story begins in a small town where a boy decides that he doesn’t believe in Santa or the Christmas holidays anymore, one evening he is woken by a loud sound and finds a huge express train waiting to take him to the North Pole to meet Santa Claus.

Another must see Christmas DVD is the popular Dr. Seuss classic, ‘how the Grinch stole Christmas’. If you’ve never read the book or watched the cartoon, then this is a good remake and an ideal holiday morning movie for the family. On a hill above the town of Whoville lives the Grinch, a sad and lonely person who has a dark side, in fact he is so angry that he decides that the people of Whoville don’t deserve to enjoy Christmas and sets about devising a plan to ruin it for them, which ends with unexpected results.