Ah, the Christmas movie. That old chestnut. That cozy perennial pastime where — let’s just pick one scene from “Red One” — Dwayne Johnson, playing Santa’s body guard, faces off with a witch-possessed mercenary (Nick Kroll) and ice-sword-wielding CGI snowmen on the sandy beaches of Aruba. Can’t you just taste the eggnog?

In this day and age, it seems like every story has been told but shout out to writer Chris Morgan and producers of the film, Hiram Garcia, Dwayne Johnson, Dany Garci, Jake Kasdan and Melvin Mar for the innovative creation of this new world,