NO.6 Film: Shrek 2 (2004)

Showing: Christmas Eve, 5.45pm, BBC1

Why It’s A Must-See: This one’s all about the glorious voice cast, with Mike Myers starring as the titular bogey-hued ogre, and a show-stealing turn from Eddie Murphy as his jive-talking chum Donkey.

Cameron Diaz, Antonio Banderas, Julie Andrews and John Cleese all bring something valuable to the party, ensuring the franchise totally justified this rollocking sequel before soiling itself with a third instalment in 2007.

Don’t Get Up For A Mince Pie...when Shrek’s buddies send their sublimely silly colossus - Mongo the gingerbread man - to storm the royal ball and prevent a double-crossing princess snog.

NO.7 Film: Corpse Bride (2005)

Showing: Christmas Eve, 6pm, ITV1

Why It’s A Must-See: It could so easily have been hokey as hell, given that an uncharacteristically simpering Tim Burton made it purely as a vehicle for his artfully dishevelled baby momma, Helena Bonham Carter.

Then again, it’s essentially a slicker stop-motion big sister to The Nightmare Before Christmas, and it reunites the golden triumverate of Burton, Depp and Elfman, and...and...well, it was never really at risk of not being genius, was it?

Don’t Get Up For A Mince Pie...during Victor and Emily’s beautifully rotten little piano duet, wherein their frankly illegal romance starts to look as though it might in fact have a (somewhat maggoty) future after all.

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