YMMV / A Christmas Story 2

• Adaptation Displacement: Or Sequel Displacement. Despite the movie's title, it's the third film to follow A Christmas Story, coming after Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss and It Runs in the Family (1994). However, those two films are now non-canon.
• Contested Sequel: While praised for attempts to portray 1940s America, the film as a whole received criticism for its reliance on slapstick humor and for its inferior derivation of the 1983 film.
• Fanon Discontinuity: This sequel gets this treatment from virtually everyone. Can qualify as Canon Discontinuity as well, as in spite of the trailer boasting that it's an "official" sequel, the film is in no way based on any of the works of Jean Shepherd, and it was obviously made without his input or blessing (as Shepherd had passed away thirteen years earlier).
  • The film itself completely ignores the references and events of the 1994 sequel It Runs in the Family (1994).
  • The following sequel, A Christmas Story Christmas, released in 2022, has no connection to the film, cementing the film's Canon Discontinuity status.
• He Really Can Act: Crosses into Took the Bad Film Seriously. Most people, including The Nostalgia Critic, agree that Braeden Leamasters is only fairly decent actor throughout the film, capturing the spirit of what Peter Billingsley did in the original film while infusing his own charm element.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Daniel Stern, who plays the Old Man, was previously the narrator on The Wonder Years, which itself was inspired by A Christmas Story.
• Memetic Molester: Ralphie Parker. It doesn't help that the entire plot of the movie involves him chasing after a girl, leading to events like him sniffing her hair and fiddling with a mall dummy's brassiere.
• Older than You Think: The subplot of Ralphie and his friends finding jobs was originally by Jean Shepherd and had previously been included in the 1988 film Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss.
• Questionable Casting: Among this sequel myriad of flaws, Daniel Stern is just as far off the mark in portraying the Old Man as Charles Grodin was in It Runs in the Family (1994), but where Grodin's performance was to low-key compared to Darren McGavin, Stern is too over-the-top wacky in his hamminess, to the point of coming off as a caricature.
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • David W. Thompson, who plays Flick in the film, went on to play a younger version of the DC Comics Batman character Jonathan Crane (A.K.A. The Scarecrow) in the Fox television series Gotham as well as Ryan in the Fear Street trilogy's first installment, Fear Street Part One: 1994.
  • A pre-Once Upon a Time and Riverdale actress Tiera Skovbye appears as Ralphie's love interest, Drucilla Gootrad.
• Sequelitis: This sequel has been widely panned, even by fans who forgot that it released.
• Tainted by the Preview: Prior to the film's release, the trailer was widely panned.