David Tennantas Donald / Roderick PetersonThe story
About Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger!
A nervous new supply teacher arrives at a Coventry primary school and is immediately swept up by its irrepressible teaching assistant and a classroom of children with no interest in being managed. Against his better judgement he finds himself leading them on an unauthorised trip to a national Christmas song contest, with a donkey in tow. The route runs from Coventry through Warwickshire and into Wales, and very little of it goes to plan.
The CineClaus verdict
The sequel does what sequels of this kind do: more plot, more shouting, and rather less of the loose charm that made the first one work. Tennant throws himself at it with no dignity whatsoever, which is most of the fun.
The improvised classroom material still lands, the road-trip half is thinner, and the songs are better than the film around them. Watch it after the first, expect less, and it holds up perfectly well.
The family desk
Can the kids watch?
Our take: fine for all ages. A great deal of shouting, some peril played entirely for laughs, and nothing that needs explaining afterwards.
BBFC advice: Contains mild rude humour.
Content advice & accessibility
- Where the advice comes from
- The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC).
- Our age guidance
- Editorial, separate from the official U certificate, and never looser than it.
