15 Interesting Christmas Movie Fan Theories We Wish Were True

From Redditor u/HLHLHL:

It finally made sense to me this Christmas. Hermie's not like the other elves. He doesn't make toys that fast, wants to be a dentist instead, and gets teased by the other elves. Why? Because despite his small stature, Hermie is not an elf. He's human. How do we know this? Elves have pointy ears, and Hermie has round ears. This is why Hermie doesn't have the same attention span or work ethic the other elves have. I'm surprised that with how everyone focuses on Rudolph's physical differences, the other elves don't sing "Hermie The Round Ear Elfling." It's almost like Rudolph secretly had the plot of the movie Elf 40 years before.

From Redditor u/bergj63:

In How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Whoville is located within a snowflake. In Horton Hears a Who, Whoville is located within a speck of dirt. Think about it, when the snowflake melts, Whoville lands on a speck of dirt which Horton finds and saves.

From Redditor u/djmcknig:

The introductions in the song could be taken literally. I think that every fear is represented by a person in Halloween town, as Halloween is a holiday to celebrate our fears. The more universal, the older, and the more terrifying a fear is, the more prominent the person in the town is. The song introduces us to several of the larger fears. Presumably there are other fears in this town as well, less popular, less powerful. Perhaps fear of fish is here, or the fear of evenly-spaced organic holes (it's a real thing, look it up). Perhaps even the fear of unwanted responsibilities. Maybe Lock, Stock, and Barrel are the fear of unwanted children. And of course, being children, they are the most likely to work for Oogie, as children are more ready to accept unnamed fears, having not yet segmented and personified all they are afraid of.

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From Redditor u/bysigningupyouagree8:

Buddy makes etch-a-sketches quicker than a normal human. It only takes Buddy a day to walk roughly 3,000 miles from the North Pole to New York (impossible for a normal human). Buddy manages to decorate an entire department store in one night by himself. Then the snowball fight; only does Buddy craft dozens of snowballs in seconds, but he is also able to move his arm at inhuman speeds to continually launch snow balls at their attackers - this is the only time we see his time manipulation from a human perspective.

Buddy doesn’t have control over his power. But whenever he is hyper focused (making things, going to find his dad, protecting his brother) he slows down time around him. This allows him to perform tasks at superhuman speeds. I believe Buddy somehow absorbed magical power throughout his life at the North Pole. All of the elves have this power, and to a greater degree than Buddy because they live for hundreds of years and have been there for generations. Santa possesses this power to an even greater degree which allows him to deliver presents to children all around the world in just one night.

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From Redditor u/Freakazette:

So, in the beginning of the movie, Papa Elf explains to Buddy that Santa's sleigh used to run purely on Christmas spirit, but there's less of it every year. Fast forward to when Walter tells Buddy to get out of his life. Buddy became depressed, sure he didn't fit in anywhere. This leads us to Buddy standing on a bridge, looking sadly at the water below and muttering to himself that he didn't belong anywhere. That was the exact moment that Santa's sleigh started crashing out of the sky. When Buddy found Santa, Santa explained that the Christmas spiritometer thingie suddenly dropped down to zero. There was no Christmas spirit left in the world - right after Buddy lost his. Buddy was the only human in the world who had any Christmas spirit before the events of the rest of the night unfolded, and once it was gone there was none in the whole world.

From Redditor u/Jthumm:

In The Polar Express, it is shown from the perspective of the audience. When the bell is shaken by the boy and an audible ring is followed, it isn't supposed to signify the kid believes, it's to show the audience believes. The idea of seeing Santa is introduced in this scene, the audience is then prompted to think about his existence, and they're supposed to think he does, since it's a kids movie. No other part of the movie is shown from the perspective of the kid, so why would it change in this scene?