This time around from the first to the the second film this one had chemistry between the two leads. Tennant hit this and left it with a great feel good film. The storyline was lovely it created a feel good feeling where you could see the talent had fun filming it.

Marc Wootton returns as the childlike incompetent teacher's assistant Mr Poppy and irritates the hell out of everyone including this viewer.David Tennant in a dual role is the new teacher Mr Donald Peterson who is tormented by Mr Poppy and ends up taking the schoolkids over the mountains of Wales to enter the National 'Song for Christmas' Competition, mainly because Mr Shakespeare from the posh rival school switched the road signs.However Mr Shakespeare meets his match in Mr Roderick Peterson, a celebrated musical director, also a cheat and Donald's twin brother who conspires to do whatever it takes to succeed.The film gives the impression that it had a semi finished script with some ad libbing from the kids. You get a bit of riffing of The X Factor audition stage. The infantile plot runs out of steam long before the finish line but then you end up with a lot of singing and dancing from the kids. All very forgettable and I doubt even the kids would enjoy it much.

I probably don't quite fit the bill for this film: single 30-year-old male, yet I really enjoyed this movie. I started off thinking "this is a bit poor" but I gave it a chance and in the end, I was pleasantly surprised. The original music I thought was well-written. It's a little bit cliché in places but if you go in not expecting much then you will be pleasantly surprised. The child actors are for the most part brilliant and the dynamic between Wooton and Tennant never loses its original appeal. On paper, the film should get a 5/10 if you were to take the constituent parts and break them all down, plot, script, budget, etc., but I think the film actually surpasses that with what they managed to get out of it. It's even uplifting and pretty entertaining throughout. You won't be thinking "God I want this to end." The humour is very much along the lines of a Richard Curtis film but for kids. It's not laugh-out-loud, but it's entertaining. It's not at all patronising. It's suitable for ages 5 and above, and of course adults :-) I give this film an 8/10.

Having never seen the first movie, I had no idea what to expect. I had no I tension of seeing this, because the the trailer looked awful, but my daughter is in charge so I had no choice.And while it's not the best film going, and it's about fifteen minutes too long, it was diverting and mildly amusing at times.Tennent plays the new teacher, who carries around a half heart picture of his twin, and whose wife is heavily pregnant. When he arrives at the school, his class are already preparing for the song for Christmas competition, which Mr Poppy is eager to do....So the film is basically a mix of road trip, and the X factor, with a lot of cute kids singing pretty awful songs, but hey,it's a Christmas movie, so it's heart is in the right place.If you can get past the fact that a lot of the characters would get into trouble by the police for kidnapping, baby snatching, leaving kids behind and not giving it a second thought and several other crimes, it's quite endearing stuff.Tennent is good in his role, but he's playing second fiddle to the guy who plays Mr Poppy. And believe me, he's the marmite of acting, you either love him or hate him, and thankfully, I tolerated the idiot, because he had a heart of gold really.So all in all, it's predictable stuff, almost verging on pantomime in some instants, the ending is what you would expect, child birth in a stable in full view of children did surprise me though.But the fact that I enjoyed it more than I thought I would surprised me the most.A pleasant, totally inoffensive family movie, and those are rare....