We wish you and your loved ones the merriest holiday season! 2024 has seen a little bit of everything at the movies. In the spirit of all this year’s exotic and cinematic thirst quenchers, NCM presents our favorite film-related mocktail recipes – fit for all tastes and ages, and every festive occasion.

Emerald Elixir

Ingredients

1/2 Cup White Grape Juice
1/2 Cup Sparkling Water
1/4 Cup Green Apple Juice
1 Teaspoon Fresh Lime Juice
Crushed Ice
Edible Glitter (optional, for that magical touch)
Green Apple Slice (for garnish)

Steps

Combine the magic: In a shaker, mix the white grape juice, green apple juice, and fresh lime juice over ice. Shake well to chill.
Add some sparkle: Strain the mixture into a glass filled with crushed ice.
Top it off: Pour sparkling water over the mix to give it some fizz.
Enchant with garnish: Dust a pinch of edible glitter on top and garnish with a thin slice of green apple.
Sip and soar: Stir lightly, and enjoy.

Perfect for any time you feel like you're defying gravity.

Inspired by TikTok

Moana’s Magic Lava Pool

Ingredients

4 Ounces Coconut Water
12 Ounces Pineapple Juice
½ Lb. Strawberries Washed and Stemmed
3 Tablespoons Granulated Sugar
1 Tablespoon Water

Blue Food Coloring

Steps

Place strawberries, sugar, and water in a large bowl and use an immersion blender to blend into a smooth strawberry puree. If you don’t have an immersion blender, you can use a regular blender as well. Pour the puree mixture evenly into the bottom of four 6 ounce glasses.
Combine coconut water and pineapple juice and mix thoroughly. Add one drop of blue food coloring and stir until well combined.
Split coconut and pineapple mixture evenly on top of the strawberry puree.
Use a stirring stir or chopstick to swirl mixture into the strawberry puree to give that swirl lava look.
Garnish with fresh strawberries, pineapple, and candy fish (optional).

Tropical holiday time! Break out the sunglasses and grab a cool one, just in time for Moana’s return.

Adapted from PlayPartyPlan

The Beetlejuice
Berry Burlesque

Ingredients

.5 Ounces Lime Juice
.5 Ounces Honey Syrup
1 Ounce Black Currant Puree
4-6 Mint Leaves
Ginger Beer

Steps

Combine and shake all ingredients except ginger beer in a shaker tin with ice.
Strain over fresh ice.
Top with ginger beer.

Before consuming, chant “Beetlejuice Berry” three times. The juice is now truly loose.

Adapted from Town and Country

Dune: Part Two’s Water of Life

Ingredients

2 Ounces Zero Proof Gin
¼ Ounce Blue Curacao Syrup (not to be confused with the alcoholic counterpart)
¼ Ounce Lavender Infused Simple Syrup
Seltzer Water to Top (chilled in advance)
Cucumber, Peeled Thin, to Garnish
Blue Food Coloring

Steps

Combine everything but the seltzer in a bar mixing glass filled with ice.
Stir.
Strain into your glass.
Top with chilled seltzer water.
Add one drop of blue food coloring.
Garnish with a cucumber.

Drink thoroughly and heartily, but with the awareness that you may just see the future of the universe in your mind’s eye.

Adapted from 2GeeksWhoEat

Deadpool & Wolverine’s Popsicle Punch

Ingredients

4 Cups Lemon Lime Soda
4 Cups Lemonade
1 (12 Ounce) Can Seltzer
1 Cup Sliced Strawberries, Plus More for Garnish
2 Mangoes, Cubed, Plus More for Garnish
3 Popsicle Strawberry Fruit Pops
3 Popsicle Mango Fruit Pops

Steps

In a large pitcher, stir together soda, lemonade, seltzer, strawberries, and mangoes.
Pour into glasses and garnish rim with a strawberry and mango slice.
Place a popsicle in as garnish.

Powerful and punchy! Just the the way our ornery superheroes like it.

Adapted from Delish