From: ejanss1@nospam.verizon.net   
      
   Joseph Nebus wrote:   
      
   > 	I think the bigger question: are there any movies which name   
   > Santa Claus in the title which aren't competitors for Worst Movie Of   
   > The Year?   
      
   Actually, the first half of "Santa Claus: the Movie" is fairly cuddly,   
   in a periodic mid-80's Alexander Salkind "Blow the entire budget on the   
   big 007-Soundstage set" sort of way--   
   Until John Lithgow arrives in the second half to stink up the whole   
   thing, and drop the entire level of discussion to a point where it can't   
   be rescued.   
      
   > 	To defeat my own rhetorical point: I would say that 'Santa   
   > Claus Conquers the Martians' and the 1960s Mexican 'Santa Claus' used   
   > to give Mike a Christmas episode are not competitors for this title,   
   > since they do enjoy this weird goofy charm and spill over themselves   
   > with fun.   
      
   But of course, these were the days when theaters were independently   
   owned, and *could* show Christmas kiddie matinees, no matter how cheap,   
   foreign or 60's.   
   As opposed to today, where studios advertise hip-hop midget gangsta   
   elves as if that's meant to be a GOOD thing.   
      
   Derek Janssen (between this and "Alvin", when "Golden Compass" looks   
   like the *sanest* movie this Christmas, we're in TROUBLE.)  -_-   
   ejanss1@verizon.net   
      
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