First of all, Vanessa Williams plays a raging bitch, a genre of acting she's perfected.
She uses the exact same line I use after the club when Taco Bell gives me a hard-shell taco instead of a soft-shell burrito with my number six value meal.
She's perfected the art of the single raised eyebrow/side eye/up-and-down/bitchface combo. SKILL.
There's also amazing original music.
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Like "The Heart of Christmas". I'm not even going to pretend this song hasn't made it to every holiday mix I've made since 2000, almost solely so I can recreate this scene.
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And then there's the oh-so-brilliant, 80s-inspired "Heartquake"... which I may or may not know the choreography to... okay, I do.
And yes, that's Chilli.
Scary Spice also makes a cameo.
Her niece is clearly my spirit animal.
Kathy Griffin (pre-"dental work") is the Ghost of Christmas Past...

...and has a lot of fabulous costume changes.
Ebony is from Paterson, New Jersey.
KG also makes this joke.
I take it back. The Ghost of Christmas Present is my spirit animal.
There's a Brian McKnight cameo!

Shade gets thrown at Céline Dion when Ebony dreams she hears news of her death on television and finds her corpse.
And Bette Midler!
Producers were clearly giving a nod to gay audiences by casting Vanessa Williams and lesbian audiences by putting her in these shoes.
THE HAIR AND WARDROBE.





Of course, it all ends very happily, BUT the movie wouldn't be complete without one final serenade.
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Cut to me being like:
Since it's Christmas and all, what better day to kick back, drink a barrel of wine, and enjoy this cinematic masterpiece (hint hint, it's on Lifetime at 2 PM EST)? But even if it's not Christmas, believe me when I say that it, like Hocus Pocus, can be enjoyed year-round, regardless of whether or not it's technically seasonally appropriate.