A man who struggles to keep his family together stumbles upon a genie who might be able to help him right before Christmas.
Naive, not so funny, and utterly formulaic. Well, I guess I don’t have many good things to say about it, so I’ll keep it short. This is how it goes: Issue -> magical solution -> more issues but some solutions -> they lived happily ever after. The remake of the British television film Bernard and the Genie (1991) messes it up with the wishes, as well as its Christmas messages. This messed-up situation translates to an unoriginal film that grasps at straws where nothing is as funny as intended. But I’m going to finish this short review on a positive note, and that is – what I perceive to be – the main message: Even if we had the wish to find happiness, we probably wouldn’t be able to as we wouldn’t be able to recognise it.
We struggle to identify happiness, and no genie, Santa, or deity can help us do so because we need to find it within ourselves and then offer it to the people we want to as well as the rest of the world. Therefore, even if we had wishes, we wouldn’t really know what to wish for, let alone how to handle the consequences of our wishes.
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