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(More customer reviews)I love the Christmas music of Johnny Mathis--it is among the very best ever recorded--so I thought this would be a sure thing. Unfortunately, for Johnny the artist and us the viewers, this video is a mixed bag. Johnny and everyone concerned are lip-synching the whole time. Sometimes this is very obvious, sometimes not. The sets are very pretty and Christmasy, but the background actors, choirs, and the bits of business they are given to do are very stagey. At times I could find myself forgetting this, at others I found it quite intrusive and hard to ignore. Johnny and his singers were at times quite wooden, other times okay--as I said at the beginning, a mixed bag. Had this been prepared for a network television special, it would never have passed muster. As it is, you can tell that Columbia didn't want to put much money, time, or effort into the production other than to make it look quite Christmasy and inviting. Unfortunately for all concerned, the whole thing comes off looking rather cheesy. The transfer to DVD is typical of its type and age: a small-budget televison/video production from 1990. The image is adequately sharp, but not spectacular in detail. All that aside, I still enjoyed it, BUT buyer beware.
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