Doctor Who: The Snowmen (2012)

What a waste of my time!!!

This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

This is How Movies Should Be Made

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

I was really disappointed by Moffat/Smith version of Doctor Who, but I finally found this episode entertaining and not completely senseless as the previous ones. The new companion introduction is almost brilliant, I'm amazed.Now, the bad things. I believe that if you cannot manage decent visual effects you should partially give up on the script, in my opinion this was the case. I always enjoy Sir Ian McKellen, I don't know what actually happened, but if I had the chance to have him in my show I wouldn't just use half of him (his voice). I see there are still some problems in the script, mostly time problems (which is ironic). Some things are rushed, some others tend to be extremely boring, this affects especially the funny side: it's really easy to fall from "funny" to "stupid" and lately it happened a lot.I gave a 7/10 because I see signs of an improvement, the willing to be fresh without destroying the whole show logic, but the episode itself it 's far from excellence.

I disagree with the previous review, sometimes people watch an episode and cant see the bigger picture, i think 'The Snowmen' was the start of a much bigger picture and was totally riddled with clues which will lead us up to the 50th anniversary. It was a story about Clara, Clara is a very important part of the 50th Anniversary special. Her birthday for a start? i will say no more on that one, spoilers.Stephen Moffat is a total genius, i saw the cleverness in this episode as i have with all the ones he has written and will continue to do so.Pay attention to the bigger picture, its not always about the story line?

The Doctor is back! I admit, I did not expect too much out of this Christmas Special, particularly after last year's disappointment. The Moffinator gave us a mish-mash of crowd-pleasers, from the nod to Sherlock (the fangirl in me died in ecstasy), to the blazing chemistry between Eleven and his to-be companion (River Song will be so displeased). What 'The Snowmen' lacked was a strong story (and the antagonists weren't scary at all), which quite evidently took a backseat to Clara's. This one essentially works not as a self-sufficient Christmas Special, but rather as an introduction to what we can expect from the rest of the series, specifically the intriguing connection between Oswin from Asylum of the Daleks and Clara.

I'm going to be honest... very few episodes of Doctor Who have ever made much sense to me. The show didn't make a lick of sense when I was a kid back in the 70s and it's no more intelligible now that I'm middle-aged. What I always enjoyed, though, was the sense of fun, the creativity and the scary monsters, three factors that kept me watching despite often not having a scooby what was going on.This Christmas special does feature the occasional fun moment, but the story is dull, the usually reliable Richard E. Grant puts in a forgettable performance, Ian McKellen is completely wasted, the creatures are weak (the crappy CGI ice woman was extremely disappointing and the titular snowmen did very little to send a chill up the spine), and the episode is even more impossible to follow than usual. Thank heavens for the presence of the rather lovely Jenna-Louise Coleman as Clara, who managed to hold my interest despite me not having the foggiest what was going on.