Family, Comedy, Adventure, Music  •  2025  •  91 min  •  Older Kids (7+)

31 Minutes: One Hot Christmas (2025)

31 Minutes: One Hot Christmas poster

31 Minutes: One Hot Christmas (2025)


Rating & Dimensions

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: Moderate
LGBTQ: Neutral
Family Values: Mixed

Viewer Rating
7.5

Overview

31 Minutes: One Hot Christmas is a 2025 Chilean puppet animation comedy directed by Pedro Peirano and Álvaro Díaz, based on the TV series 31 Minutos. News anchor Tulio Triviño, voiced by Peirano, travels to the North Pole to collect Christmas gifts, but his gambling derails the plan while his colleagues, including reporter Juan Carlos Bodoque voiced by Díaz, manage studio chaos to save the holiday.


Starring Cast

Pedro Peirano  •   Alvaro Díaz  •   Rodrigo Salinas


Where to watch

Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...
Leans Progressive

Primary

Political: Leans Left
Confidence: Medium

The film's chaotic Christmas narrative critiques exploitative work culture and individualism while promoting collective support and emotional warmth as keys to festive joy. This satirical approach to media absurdity and social issues aligns with progressive values.

Diversity: Moderate
Confidence: Medium

Puppet characters voiced by a Latin American ensemble bring cultural diversity to the production. The story adapts Christmas traditions to a hot Chilean setting, diverging gently from conventional holiday norms without centering social critiques.

Secondary

LGBTQ: Neutral
Confidence: Low

An incidental gag revolves around mistaking a friendship hug between two male puppets for romance, played for laughs in the chaotic holiday narrative. Queer elements remain peripheral and unexamined, neither celebrated nor critiqued.

Family Values: Mixed
Confidence: Medium

The film depicts community efforts to ensure children receive Christmas gifts, with minimal focus on specific family structures or roles, leading to a neutral portrayal of family life. The absence of deeper exploration into marriage, parenting, or gender norms determines the neutral assessment.

Trans: N/A
Confidence: Medium

The film contains no portrayal of transgender characters or themes. Its story unfolds through comedic holiday chaos involving a rabbit reporter's North Pole adventure and studio improvisations, emphasizing friendship and absurdity over identity explorations.

Female Combat: No
Confidence: Medium

Female characters including Patana Tufillo and Bufandina Escarcha appear in the film, but none participate in physical combat scenes against male opponents. The narrative centers on humorous efforts to secure Christmas gifts amid mishaps, without any hand-to-hand fights or martial arts encounters.

Gender Swap: No
Confidence: Medium

The movie retains the established male characters from the original 31 Minutos series, such as Tulio Triviño and Bodoque, portrayed consistently without any gender alterations.

Race Swap: No
Confidence: Low

The film's characters are anthropomorphic puppets from the established Chilean series, lacking canonical human racial depictions in source material, so no race swaps occur.


Viewer Rating Breakdown

7.5

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

IMDB logo
7.3
The Movie Database logo
7.8

Critic Ratings

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N/A
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N/A

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