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      The Year Without a Santa Claus

      2006 1 hr. 36 min. Kids & Family Holiday Comedy Fantasy List
      Reviews 57% 2,500+ Ratings Audience Score Two elves try to save Christmas after disgruntled Saint Nick (John Goodman) decides to take the year off. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member WARNING! This is NOT the Rankin/Bass stop motion classic. This is a live-action remake. And it is truly terrible. So bad, it was shown only once on television for its premiere, never to be seen again. All but one of the songs are missing, Jingle and Jangle are garbage, the story is too long drawn out, and the subplots are ridiculous. Achingly bad, this movie deserves a lump of coal for Christmas. Do yourself a favour and just watch the far superior original. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/09/23 Full Review Audience Member Every copy of this stinking pile of moose crap should be destroyed and the writers flogged within an inch of their lives for taking a lovely animated children's special and turning it into garbage. Yes, it's really that bad. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/09/23 Full Review Audience Member Total kitsch, bad CGI, some bad makeup, but I still enjoy it and so does my daughter. I have the Rankin-Bass version as well and this is just fun to add to the collection. My daughter loves it and this adaptation is basically your made for TV low budget live version. Did I say a lot of negative things about it? Yep. The classics will always be classics but we can't be so stuck on them that we shun everything new. I'd never heard of it and I only watched it by accident because it came in the Rankin-Bass collection and am glad to have it in the mix (even the originals get annoying if you don't change it up) It's full of heart, full of fun, ridiculous, and sweet. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/29/23 Full Review alec b i loved the snow miser and the heat miser in this! mother nature too. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member The snowmiser and heatmiser were like the only thing I liked about about it. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Audience Member Another adaptation of the book, but is mostly a painful extension of the Rankin and Bass cartoon. This becomes no more apparent than when they decide to just throw in the Heat/Snow Miser songs. In the same sad way that Ron Howard's Grinch used the song from the 60's version. It's a highlight, but it just reminds us how unimaginative and tacky the remake is. We have a needless antagonist that wants to replace Santa with Extreme Santa, and Jangle is obsessed with urban culture and television. Towards the end it picks up, when I forgot the main plot of the film, and it focused on the son and his politician father. Goodman is fine as a cranky Santa, but he's just playing himself. McKean and Fierstein have some fun as the Miser brothers, even though I don't think Fierstein's voice suits the singing sections. The cartoon has more heart, more soul, and doesn't go for forced "humour". Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Emily Ashby Common Sense Media Woeful Santa brings little holiday cheer. Rated: 2/5 Nov 12, 2022 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis Two elves try to save Christmas after disgruntled Saint Nick (John Goodman) decides to take the year off.
      Director
      Ron Underwood
      Executive Producer
      Mark Wolper
      Production Co
      Warner Bros. Television
      Genre
      Kids & Family, Holiday, Comedy, Fantasy
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      May 18, 2016