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"The Berenstain Bears' Christmas Tree" is another television Christmas special that runs for (under) half an hour and this one was released back in 1979, so it will soon have its 40th anniversary. The director is Mordicai Gerstein (not Berstein) and he worked on several other Berenstein Bear films too. The Berensteins were a married couple who wrote children's books about the characters you see in here. This film we got here is not only the first, but probably also the most known from the series. Easter for example has its own film too. Anyway, this one here is about Father Bear who wants to get his family the perfect Christmas tree, a subject I have come across on other occasions too. The problem is just that cutting the tree will make all the animals living inside it homeless. A difficult choice right? I liked the solution in here though. This made up for some of the animation I guess as I really wasn't too big on the visual side here, especially the character design of the bears that I found pretty underwhelming and it is somewhat of a negative deal breaker as the bears are visible in it permanently from start to finish. So overall some good some bad in here, it's not a bad film, but also not on a level where I want to watch any of the many sequels. A thumbs-up as a whole. See it during the holidays. Final side-note: The actor voicing Papa Bear reminded me a bit of Pinto Colvig's Goofy. Really that's all now.