The 5 best Disney Christmas Movies to watch! Updated December 2020.
I love watching Disney movies any time of year, but during the holidays is when I get to bust out the Disney Christmas movies! There are some good ones, but I wanted to share some of my absolute favorites. If you’re looking for even more Disney Christmas movies you can find a whole calendar of them available on Disney+! I highly recommend you watch them if you’re looking for some good Christmas movies this season!
The Muppet Christmas Carol
This is one of my favorite Christmas stories, and who better to tell it than the Muppets? (I’m a big Muppet fan). It’s got some great songs in it, and I love having Gonzo and Rizzo narrating for us. This is my #1.
Beauty and the Beast: the Enchanted Christmas
Beauty and the Beast is my favorite Disney movie, so I love that there’s something for Christmas time. It’s got an awesome voice cast, more great songs, and is actually one of the few animated sequels that isn’t awful. Plus, Belle’s holiday dress is so pretty.
Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas
This one is actually a collection of holiday shorts featuring Mickey and friends. There’s one with Donald and his nephews wishing every day could be Christmas, Goofy convincing his son Max that Santa is real, and a re-telling of the Gift of the Magi with Mickey and Minnie. There’s also a sequel, Mickey’s Twice Once a Christmas, but I don’t enjoy that one nearly as much.
The Santa Clause
This one was really popular when I was a kid, and while it spawned a couple of sequels they will never be as good as the original. Tim Allen involuntarily becoming Santa? Hilarious.
Noelle
This is one of the newest Disney Christmas movies, having made its debut on Disney+ last year. It’s so cute! I love Anna Kendrick and she’s got a very “Elf” vibe going on in this film, similar to Will Ferrell in that movie.
Other blog posts of interest:
Christmas movies on Disney+
Muppets Christmas movies
Disney Christmas playlist
100 binge-worthy things on Disney+
Adding Disney to your home for the holidays
What are your favorite Disney Christmas movies?
My favourite Christmas movie is a Czech version of Cinderella, that has been shown on Christmas Eve in Norway for 20 years! It’s really old, and horribly dubbed into Norwegian, but it’s such a classic! 🙂
Aww that is really awesome! I love Cinderella and am always interested in other versions!
The Christmas Beauty & the Beast was my favorite growing up!
It’s such a cute one!
My son loves Once Upon a Christmas but I will definitely be looking into getting him the Muppet Christmas Carol!
I hope he loves it as much as I do!
Only watched #5 so far this year! I am so behind on my Christmas movie watch list!!
I was on vacation for the first half of December so I feel so far behind on Christmas stuff! The only Christmas movies I’ve watched were in my hotel room – luckily I’ve gotten to see Elf and Muppets Christmas!
I love the Muppets Christmas Carol! And I never heard of the Beauty and the Beast one. I have to see that.
We should try to watch it next weekend!
Thanks for the suggestions 🙂 Great choices!
Hope you are enjoying some Christmas movies!
I love the Muppet version of the Christmas Carol, which surprises me because I am not a huge fan of Muppet inspired works. I love love love the Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas! I actually just watched it this past weekend. I saw it was on Netflix, and was thrilled to find that out!
The Santa Clause is my absolute favorite though. But that is mainly because I have always had the biggest crush on Tim Allen. 🙂
Netflix is how I found Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas! Most of the others I have on DVD 🙂 (or VHS!)
The Muppet version of the Christmas Carol is my favorite version of the story!!! I don’t know why, but I love it! I also love the Santa Claus. Great list here!
I agree, I love it too! The Muppets just do such a good job of telling the story.
I love the Muppets The Christmas Carol the best! I have been a huge Muppets fan since I was a little girl.
Same here! The Muppets were my favorite growing up and I’m so glad they’ve made a comeback recently.
I seriously watched the Beauty & The Beast Christmas movie a billion times as a kid! It still brings back so many great memories!
Aww I know! I haven’t watched it this year and after writing this post I had to get it from the library to watch again before Christmas!
Muppet Christmas Carol is one of Nick’s family’s favorite Christmas movies, and I just saw it for the first time last year. I love it now!
I’m glad you got the chance to see it, it’s great!
My oldest is just getting old enough to watch these. This is a great reminder of the great Disney Christmas movies! I almost forgot about The Santa Clause.
Yes, there are so many good ones!
I used to have the Beuty & the Beast one on VHS 🙁 Too bad I can’t watch that anymore. Lucklily for us The Santa Clause is on Netflix, I may watch that tonight….
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Thanks for sharing, I will definitely check it out!
We seem to watch A Night Before Christmas during Halloween, but it a great movie. I almost forgot about Beauty and the Beast!
I usually watch it on Thanksgiving since it is right between Halloween and Christmas, haha!
Our toddler LOVES Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas…and Twice Upon a Christmas. And who doesn’t love The Santa Clause?!? It’s one of my very favorites. 🙂
Aww yeah I think Twice Upon a Christmas is great for kids! Especially if they enjoy Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and all of those. Santa Clause is definitely one of the best Christmas movies!
From this list, my favorite is Beauty and the Beast. My husband loves The Santa Clause. As for as Christmas movies in general, I have a soft spot for White Christmas, and I love the Polar Express. But if I’m honest, I love all Christmas movies…..except The Christmas Story…..not a fan! lol!
My brother LOVES A Christmas Story and insists we put the channel on that plays it for like 24 hours every Christmas. I can’t stand it haha!
I’m glad to hear I’m not the only one! I’m usually in the minority on this one! lol!