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      Gotta Catch Santa Claus

      TV-G 2008 1h 6m Kids & Family Holiday Comedy Adventure Animation List
      Reviews 15% Audience Score 100+ Ratings A boy and his friends embark on a quest to prove that jolly old Saint Nick (William Shatner) is real. Read More Read Less

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      Sierra Filucci Common Sense Media Upbeat holiday package without much in the box. Rated: 3/5 Jan 1, 2011 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Audience Member Special movie night with the kids. We tried the Muppet Christmas Carol but Kyle was too scared. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/15/23 Full Review Audience Member Cheaply animated and obnoxious Christmas special. It's painful watching it trying to be so hip and cool, as it's already dated. Hardly going to become a classic. I really feel as those some of these sequences could have been created by youngsters just getting started in animation. The songs aren't memorable and also use bizarre genres to make it feel fresh, when it just ends up awkward. Nobody wants to see Santa dancing to funk. Shatner is underused, and any good vocal work is betrayed by the lifeless faces of the characters. Some big icy monster on a comet with 3 snowmen henchmen makes it interesting for a while, but it gets old fast. The highlight is Santa's ridiculously hot wife, and when talking about a shoddy animated film, that's quite depressing. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review Audience Member The real tragedy of this cheaply animated musical X-Mas cartoon is that they never bothered to give the great William Shatner a tune to croon. Criminal! The rest of the flick is a tad painful for those adult viewers out there, but I’m sure the kiddies and the trekkies in the audience will have some fun. I liked the comet villain LeFreeze and his space snowmen goons. Ridiculous! And there is a wonderful post-credits Shatner sequence that had me chuckling. VF. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/10/23 Full Review Audience Member It's William Shatner playing Santa and that's the only reason I watched it. Too bad Santa isn't really a main character and he doesn't talk a lot. I did like the main kid saying the entire point of telling the story was cuz they shot Santa down with a lazer and no one else does that. The songs were pretty lame but what do you expect right? Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Audience Member It's a cute little X-Mas DVD for kids. Feels more like a TV cartoon special though. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member No so romantic and exciting that i hope...:s Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Movie Info

      Synopsis A boy and his friends embark on a quest to prove that jolly old Saint Nick (William Shatner) is real.
      Director
      Peter Lepeniotis
      Production Co
      Cookie Jar Entertainment, Inc., Gotta Catch Santa Productions
      Rating
      TV-G
      Genre
      Kids & Family, Holiday, Comedy, Adventure, Animation
      Original Language
      English
      Runtime
      1h 6m
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