Boring. Completely boring. Lucky for me, viewing this film did not cost me anything because if I spent ANY money on this train wreck, I would be real hot right now. My apologies go out to my roommate who enjoyed this movie – I didn’t care for it.

The premise of the movie is just absurd. Santa Claus was always a great person – even as a little child. So he becomes a Saint and now his family is sorta frozen in time forever. Weird. But, you see, Santa’s older brother is jealous of his family’s love for Santa. Fast forward to the future and apparently some efficiency expert is looking to shut down Santa’s factory. Absolutely no connection to the premise that Santa is immortal and exists to serve children for eternity. Awkward. And it goes on like this with the rest of the movie – new premises popping up all over the place.

What the hell does an efficiency expert have to do with the North Pole? That is one of the dumbest plots for a Christmas movie that I’ve ever heard! That’s worse than Santa with Muscles!

That said, I could see the appeal to casual Christmas movie fans or just movie fans. Vince Vaughn does his part pretty well as does Paul Giamotti. How great of an actor is Paul Giamotti? Other than those two, though, I really didn’t find much to like about this movie. I found it to be bland and really written for either small children who are excited to see Santa on screen or people who just want to watch something that takes up a few hours of their lives.

Actually, the scene with the “other” siblings is hilarious. George Clinton, one of the Baldwin brothers, Frank Stallone – pretty funny stuff right there!

And I know that sounds somewhat rough for a review, but as a big fan of Christmas and a big Christmas movie buff – I just couldn’t stomach this one. My suggestion is to not go out of your way to see this movie either now or later. You’ll get a better showing out of The Santa Clause or Bad Santa or It’s a Wonderful Life, etc.