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The best Christmas movie about Santa being a sorcerer from Florida that I've honestly ever seen.
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
02/23/23
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Fee fi fo fun for the whole family if your family does not like good movies
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Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars
01/16/23
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Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny is easily a contender for the title of worst Christmas movie ever made. Produced on a shoestring budget by the struggling Pirates World amusement park, it tells the tale of how Santa gets stuck on a beach in Florida, so he tells a bunch of kids the story of Thumbelina. Obviously, that makes no sense, but if anything, it makes this movie sound less crazy than it is.
In the first act, Santa sings an awful song about how he's burning up and has no-one to save him, before telepathically summoning all the nearby children to come help him. They enlist various farm animals and a guy in a gorilla suit to pull his sleigh out of the sand (while Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn watch from their raft!?) but none of it works. So since they're all stuck there anyway, Santa proceeds to tell them about Thumbelina, which takes the form of a separate movie, complete with its own opening and ending credits.
This would make for a welcome change of pace, except that the Thumbelina section is only marginally better than stranded Santa. The acting and sets are on the level of a high school play. The frog, bug, and mole costumes are well below the level of a high school play. The whole thing feels like a giant acid trip, and a slow tedious one at that. The true measure of the filmmakers' incompetence is how the movie frequently cuts to the squawk box providing the narration, because, it wants to remind us that this is all happening at a walk-through exhibit at Pirates World?
We're not so much watching a movie about Thumbelina as we are a filmed segment about tourists looking at dioramas of Thumbelina's story, as narrated by a mole with a weird accent, which is all being narrated to kids on a batch by Santa Claus, for reasons that are never fully explained. This is by far the most pointless, awkward framing device I've seen, all to pad the runtime enough for this to count as a real movie. Eventually the movie does get back to Santa, the Ice Cream Bunny shows up, and the day is saved, without much actually happening. It's all glacially slow and rather pointless, and makes no sense whatsoever
The entire production reeks of cheapness, desperation, and a profound lack of talent or competence. There is no logic, no real story, no production values to speak of, and no reason for this mess to exist, aside from reminding kids that Pirates World existed. The original songs are among the worst music ever put on film, the sound quality is terrible throughout, and the photography does nothing to hid the sweat pouring down Santa's costume. I never thought that in a million years I'd witness a Christmas movie worse than Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, but this is it. Fans of hilariously bad movies will want to check out the RiffTrax version, but skip the original.
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Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars
03/31/23
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Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny gives you not one, but TWO fantastically terrible movies for the price of one. A drunken, homeless old fisherman (AKA Santa) is stranded on a Florida beach, and only a group of children (two of whom are inexplicably Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn) along with their friend the Ice Cream Bunny can help him. Oh, and "Jack and the Beanstalk" happens. The entire story of "Jack and the Beanstalk". Just...right in the middle of the movie. For no reason. It's an odd Lynchian nightmare and an instant holiday classic.
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Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
02/24/23
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Absolutely 115% fully concur & otherwise agree. I'd never in my life heard of this, & that was definitely a Good Thing. If it weren't for being fodder for rifftrax this piece of dreck would have far less than zero redeeming merit whatsoever. Thank God for rifftrax!
Seriously, folks, I am NOT KIDDING. This thing makes Ed Wood look good, & yes, I am Totally Dead Serious. If you haven't seen it, count your blessings. To call this ... THING ... horrid is to be exceedingly kind to it. If it were possible to give this garbage less than .5 of a star I would. Preferably a negative. It really is just that rotten.
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Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars
02/03/23
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Take my word for it...skip this strange awful Christmas movie. It is a bizarre and badly produced, with stilted acting and horrible costumes. The Santa portions and the eventual arrival of the "Ice Cream Bunny" serve as wraparounds for a poorly made version of Thumbelina...and apparently home movie footage of the producers daughter at a theme park. It is weird. No explanation is given for the Ice Cream Bunny and why he is called that. He has no ice cream. It is a terribly weird movie, and badly made. It isn't too much fun to sit through without a group.
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Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars
02/17/23
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