these are the signs of the big, bright, imaginative Musical Monsters Of Turkey Hollow that might have been, rather than the modernized version presented here, with its instant-time-capsule jokes about veganism, hashtags, and Honey Boo Boo
overall, this is smart, solid whole-family entertainment, modest in its ambitions yet far above the run of made-for-TV holiday yuck you will be offered in the weeks ahead
