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, and Loles León.

Plot

The plot tracks the developments in the García Loyola family as Christmas looms in, including the kids breaking a Nativity scene figurine and the eldest sibling breaking up with her boyfriend.

Cast

Production

The film is a Bowfinger International Pictures, Atresmedia Cine and Padre no hay más que uno 3 AIE production, with the association of Sony Pictures International Productions and the participation of Atresmedia and Prime Video. Filming began in the Madrid's

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in December 2021.

replaced Antonio Resines (originally cast as the family's grandfather) owing to the latter's December 2021 hospitalization from COVID-19.

Release

Distributed by Sony Pictures Entertainment Iberia, the film was theatrically released in Spain on 14 July 2022. It grossed €745,000 (over 108,000 admissions) in its opening day, making the best debut for a Spanish film in the domestic market since 2015, and becoming the highest-grossing Spanish release in 2022 already after its first (4-day) weekend in theatres.

Reception

Fausto Fernández of '' Fotogramas'' rated the film 3 out of 5 stars assessing it to be "a comedy with a lot of angel", while pointing out that it was short in cameos. Carlos Marañón of '' Cinemanía'' rated the film 2 out of 5 stars, deeming the third installment of the saga to be "flat, with some steep, colorful tacks, such as the small tribute to ''

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''". Raquel Hernández Luján of ''

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'' scored 50 out of 100 points ("so-so"), criticising the "blatant

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, the lack of substance in the story and the genre clichés", while drawing out the 2-year-old addition to the ensemble cast (featuring in some of the most endearing moments) as the best thing about the film. Javier Ocaña of ''

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'' wrote that the "insignificant" film features "a monotonous rhythm, modest performances, little or no humor in the situations and no comic tempo in the dialogues, in the replies and counter-replies", being "simply as indolent as any Spanish production for children of the 1970s and 1980s".

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