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2. Santa Claus: The Movie (known on-screen as simply Santa Claus) is a 1985 British-American Christmas film starring Dudley Moore, John Lithgow, and David Huddleston in.

All I Want for Christmas It’s like House Arrest, but with all of the charm replaced by tinsel. Not based on the Mariah Carey song (but maybe it would have been better if it had been?). Worth one viewing for Leslie Nielsen as “Santa.”9.

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The Santa Clause is a 1994 American film directed by John Pasquin, distributed by Walt Disney.

Christmas with the Kranks Awful people celebrate Christmas too, you know! Based on a novel by John Grisham, the quality of this Tim Allen/Jamie Lee Curtis comedy depends mostly on one’s tolerance for oafish comedy and the manufactured elements of the holiday.

Santa with Muscles Starring Hulk Hogan as a millioniare- bodybuilder- turned- amnesiac- mall- Santa- crime- fighter, Santa with Muscles is a bonkers Christmas adventure that might have been better as a Yahoo Serious vehicle. Maybe. 9. 7. Fred Claus Meet the Parents director David Dobkins throws millions at the screen to bring Santa’s workshop to life, even recruiting the perfect modern actor, Paul Giamatti, to the play the big guy. And then Vince Vaughn shows up to be a cynical asshole and ruin it. Four Christmases. Oh hey, another Vince Vaughn Christmas movie feels more like a chore for the holiday completist than a dose of cheer. Four Christmases is Reese Witherspoon’s Sweet Home Alabama act transplanted to December and loaded with stars (Dwight Yoakam!) and yet, it’s a total bust.

Vince Vaughn may not be cut out for the “nice” list. Santa Claus: The Movie This movie sounds like gold on paper: A Santa Claus mythos story decorated like the Superman franchise. The film has the sheen of the superheroic franchise, but little of the heart. The Family Man Brett Ratner teams up with Nicolas Cage for his own twist on the It’s a Wonderful Life model. Saccharine beyond comprehension and a gingerbread cookie cutter script makes this acceptable, but never required holiday viewing. The Perfect Holiday Dredged from the bottom of the generic romantic comedy gutter, Morris Chestnut plays an aspiring musician working as a mall Santa who falls for Gabrielle Union.

That’s it. There are angels, to ensure the Christmas stamp of approval. Santa’s Slay After 1,0. Santa goes postal. The 2. 00. 5 movie opens with the subversive notion of Kris Kringle murdering Jews and spirals down from there.

Just not as weird as it could have been, oddly enough. I’ll Be Home for Christmas Better appreciated as a relic of the Jonathan Taylor Thomas era than as a holiday treat, Disney’s Christmas road movie offers the right kind of silliness for early December viewing (before the hardcore marathoning begins).

Who doesn’t love the Santa 5. K? 9. 0. Jack Frost A magical harmonica brings rock star Jack Frost (Michael Keaton) back from the dead to inhabit the body of a snowman. Which is creepy as all hell — and a little sweet. The Nativity Story From the director of Twilight comes the greatest, and most repeated, story ever told. Catherine Hardwicke’s version of the Nativity is a little on the ho- hum side, straightforward and glossy, but her Thirteen instincts have her playing up the “teen pregnancy” angle, making the film palatable in the modern age. Santa Claus (1. 95.

A terrible movie that swings back into good graces for going the extra mile. Like a dream induced by old fruitcake, Santa Claus follows the titular character as he battles Lucifer to win back the love of Mexican children. That it became one of the highlights of Mystery Science Theater 3. The Nutcracker (1. George Balanchine’s Nutcracker ballet is a treasured work of holiday culture.

The movie version starring Macaulay Culkin is not. A Christmas Carol (2. Thanks to the magic of motion capture animation, Jim Carrey was able to play Ebenezer Scrooge at every age and all three of the visiting Ghosts. That didn’t really add anything, but it’s fun to say that. The highlight here is the film’s frightening tone.

Director Robert Zemeckis wanted to turn the spirit- filled tale into a certified ghost story. Prancer The sad part about Prancer is that if a little ginger girl really started whining about how she had a flying reindeer in the barn, everyone would brush her off. Super annoying. Prancer aims for the E. T. magic and woefully misses the mark, enough to earn it some nostalgia points. Surviving Christmas The not- as- awful- as- they- say- but- still- kinda- stupid Christmas movie from 2.

Ben Affleck and James Gandolfini are good fun as a wayward Christmas hater and his stand- in father figure. It’s sadistic and ugly, but at least it’s going for something. Santa Claus Conquers the Martians Pure yuletide shlock that’s completely unaware of its ineptitude.

Santa is kidnapped by Martians, meets a flailing robot (clearly made of cardboard boxes), and teaches the Martians how to hold their own Christmas. Great for those eggnog- fueled evenings that blow past 2 a. Angels Sing Harry Connick Jr. ABC Family movies into watchable melodramatic, corny fluff. Angels Sing pairs Connick Jr. Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson for a film that’s basically a warm and fuzzy group sing in movie form (while also including a sing- a- long scene). Friday After Next Craig (Ice Cube) and Day- Day (Mike Epps) returned for a third Friday movie that was almost exactly like the other two Friday movies except it took place during Christmas.

Some criminal activity, some major partying, some wacky antics around the neighborhood. Standard issue and watchable. Jingle All the Way Arnold Schwarzenegger’s holiday entry seemed like a ridiculous farce in 1.

Shopping would never get that crazy!” Wrong. Like a fine wine, time transformed Jingle All the Way into a frightening reflection of modern consumerism complete with the walking, talking Anakin Skywalker action figure. Bush Christmas This Australian film is cut from the Disney cloth — think Swiss Family Robinson or Homeward Bound. Watch The Departed IMDB on this page. It has very little do with Christmas and lots to do with rescuing horses from mean ol’ thieves.

Which, turns out, is pretty fun in the Australian outback. The Holiday A Christmas movie was inevitable for “white people problems” connoisseur Nancy Meyers. The fact that she tapped the holidays to draw out one of Jack Black’s best (and undervalued) performances is the real surprise. Lethal Weapon. Great buddy comedy, pretty good Christmas movie. There isn’t a ton of Christmas cheer in Richard Donner’s whacked out (read: costarring Gary Busey) action flick, but kicking things off with “Jingle Bell Rock” sets the mood just right. Babes in Toyland (1.

A Technicolor update to the 1. Center Stage: Turn It Up Movie Watch Online. Disney musical mold. The late Annette Funicello stars in the Babes remake, that feels more like a testing ground for Mary Poppins or Chitty Chitty Bang Bang then it’s own spectacle.

Ernest Saves Christmas You’re either in or your out when it comes to Jim Varney’s bumbling, yokel funnyman Ernest P. Worrell. He’s dumb, but loving — the perfect Christmas movie character. Here, he saves the day for Santa. Beyond Tomorrow One Christmas Eve, three businessmen decide to see what happens when they throw their wallets out the window.

A nice gal returns it, earning their admiration. They later die, return as ghosts, and help her fall in love and – oh my god this movie is weird. It Happened On 5th Avenue.

The story of a millionaire family who discovers a homeless person living in their Fifth Avenue pad. Unbelievable by today’s standards, where the vagrant would be arrested and hauled away to prison for all eternity. Times change, but that gives makes this movie pleasantly goofy. Reindeer Games John Frankenheimer’s final film is a twisty, turny journey down holiday road, with a manic Ben Affleck in the driver’s seat.

Full of weird angles, snappy language, and sadistic humor, the movie has gone unappreciated since it debuted to horrid reviews in 2. The Santa Clause 2: The Mrs Clause Progressive thinking has never been one of Christmas movies’ strongest suits, so it’s no surprise the sequel to Tim Allen’s Santa Clause involved the ticking- clock search for a Mrs.

Television sitcom star Tim Allen made his big screen debut with this light, family- friendly holiday comedy. Allen stars as Scott Calvin, the divorced dad of Charlie (Eric Lloyd). Scott is distressed to learn that his ex- wife Laura (Wendy Crewson) and Charlie's psychiatrist stepfather Neal (Judge Reinhold) have informed his son that there is no Santa Claus. While a sullen Charlie visits his dad on Christmas Eve, a noise on the roof brings them outside, where Scott startles the intruder, who tumbles from the roof. It turns out that there is a Santa after all, and Scott has just accidentally killed him. Because of a legal technicality known as "the Santa clause," Scott inherits the jolly old elf's job. As the next year passes, Scott rapidly gains weight, grows a white beard and meets the elf Bernard (David Krumholtz) - - who is the one who really runs the North Pole - - while Charlie regains his Christmas spirit.

However, Neal becomes concerned about Scott's sudden change in appearance and insistence that he's Santa, and he forces him to undergo a psychiatric evaluation. Director John Pasquin previously directed Allen in the TV series Home Improvement and would team with him again for Jungle 2 Jungle (1.