Bad Santa Review

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WSD's Review of Bad Santa

23rd Nov 2004

Overall Rating

4 stars
  • Value for money
    4 stars
Good Points

Sick, twisted, wrong, Billy Bob Thornton


Bad Points

A bit of a cheesy ending


General Comments

Bad Santa is the best Christmas film I have ever seen in my life. Every year I tend to get a bit bored and tired of Christmas season being about 3 months long and having it all shoved down my throat, and I'm sure many people will sympathise. Enough cheese is enough.

So, it really is about time somebody made 1) a Christmas film for adults and 2) a Christmas film that is so wrong on so many levels.

The basic idea is that Billy Bob Thornton is a an alcoholic safecracker who works with a dwarf as a Santa and elf team. Every year they go to a new city, get a job in the local mall, and then on Christmas Eve break into the safe and rob the place blind. Billy's character then spends the next 10 1/2 months drinking the proceeds in Miami, chasing women and generally causing mayhem.

He goes with his partner to Phoenix where he meets a woman who has a Santa fetish and a young boy who thinks he's the real Santa Claus who has some social problems and lives in a very big, expensive house with his very senile grandmother.

To say much more would be to give too much away, but needless to say the film features Santa enjoying the company of large women -- loudly, and in public, vomiting, soiling himself, getting chased by police, and generally misbehaving.

The ending itself is far too cheesy, considering the nature of the main character, but the car chase and the immediate result of the car chase at the end are hilarious and worth the price of the ticket alone.

If you don't mind a bit of very black humour and a rather rude portrayal of the holiday icon of St. Nick, then go see Bad Santa. Just please don't take the kids....

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