Antonio Sanint
An Unremarkable Christmas
“An Unremarkable Christmas (2020) follows characters pushed into a…”
2020
1h 23m
Director: Juan Camilo Pinzón
Cast
10 people
Reviews
3 min readA Christmas Comedy That Feels Like a Warm, Slightly Lumpy Sweater
I’ll admit it: I went into An Unremarkable Christmas expecting a forgettable holiday rom-com, the kind that flickers in the background while you wrap presents and half-listen for the laugh track. But what I found was something quieter, messier, and—dare I say—more human than that. This isn’t a film that dazzles with spectacle or reinvents the wheel.
It’s a comedy that feels like it was made by people who understand that the holidays, for most of us, aren’t about grand gestures or picture-perfect moments. They’re about the awkward silences, the forced cheer, and the way family can make you feel both deeply loved and deeply annoyed—often in the same five minutes.
Juan Camilo Pinzón’s film (a Colombian production, per TMDB) doesn’t have the budget or the ambition to be a Love Actually, and thank goodness for that. Instead, it settles into the rhythms of a TV movie with the unpretentious charm of a well-worn holiday sweater: not flashy, but comfortable enough to get you through the season. The plot, as far as I can piece together from the scant details available, seems to revolve around a family navigating the usual Christmas chaos—misplaced gifts, clashing personalities, and the kind of small-scale disasters that feel catastrophic in the moment but become fond memories in hindsight.
(Or, at least, that’s what we tell ourselves.)
Buzz & Rumors
Public reportsThe English title is the joke they were too shy to print
Chichipatos already had a Netflix English name, The Unremarkable Juanquini. Then the Christmas special arrived on December 17, 2020, and the platform sanded the slang off again. The original title is Chichipatos: ¡Qué chimba de Navidad! El Espectador billed it as an 80-minute special. latestnetflix.com's take is that tMDB and IMDb logged a TV movie of about 82 minutes.English metadata went with An Unremarkable Christmas. Polite. Soft. Almost a dare. 
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The wish before they meet.
The special is a prequel. Juanquini, El Ñato, and Captain González spend the novenas of 2019 without knowing one another. They share one Christmas wish, the courage to change their lives. A new figure named El Dañado is the rumor the press kit floated. He might be the one who makes the wish come true. Juan Camilo Pinzón directed. Dago García wrote. Caracol Televisión produced. The same crew had already delivered the series to Netflix on May 15. Spanish Wikipedia later counted two seasons and 15 episodes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSmB-q2Lm8U
Antonio Sanint plays Juan Morales, an accountant who wants to be a magician. He invites his boss home for the Day of the Little Candles. Luis Eduardo Arango plays the boss. Netflix's own logline is the gag. Juan does not know the man is one of Colombia's most-wanted criminals. The official trailer from Netflix Latinoamérica spells the trap in under two minutes of burned buñuelos, botched novenas, and a disappearing act. , ,
A cat, a nun, and a punk named Destroyer.
Roger Moore watched it on release day and clocked the family cat as narrator. He also clocked the budget. Actors and Christmas junk, no money for a chase. He gave it a star and a half. The laughs he listed are sitcom leftovers that did not travel. A college kid crushing on a novice nun. A daughter dating a mohawked punk who introduces himself as Destroyer. Mother-in-law gags. A marshmallow-business son summoned into the family crime.
MEAWW told English readers the special was shot in Bogotá and retitled for export. That part is true. Their Spanish title, Navidad Chichipata, is not the one on the poster. , IMDb later sat at 3.3 from a few hundred votes. Common Sense Media tagged it 13-plus for weed, drink, and a criminal father yelling at his son. ,
By the time the special dropped, Netflix had already promised a second season of Chichipatos for 2021, picking up with the Morales family kidnapped. The Christmas movie is the pause button. Watch the farce. Then wait for the kidnapping.
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