It's nice, but also boring if you don't have kids or if you're not watching it at Christmas. It's a matter of atmosphere, you know, so to enjoy a Christmas movie you have to watch it at Christmas! And, it's almost commpulsory to have kids to watch this, little kids, because after a certain age you stop believing in Santa Claus, everything becomes a little darker, magic goes away, and a movie where a little girl asks Santa in the Mall for a million dollar because her father needs it becomes little more than a silly fairytale.
This movie is about a family that had to move away from Los Angeles because of money problems. The father Wayne (Patrick Swayze) is again without work, but his wife is having trouble getting there because the planes are all full around Christmas, so he'll have to buy the Cristmas presents for the kids. They are three: Danny who is a teenager angry becasuse he had to leave behind all his friends, but then at the mall he looks at a pretty blond with a red bikini and starts touring the mall in search for her, until he meets her and decides that all of a sudden this is not a bad place after all, and "who cares about Los Angeles if the pretty blonde with the red bikini is here talking to me" ... then there's his brother Brian who is a little smartypants, and the youngest of the family is six-years-old Mary, the only one with the Christmas spirit, because she believes in Christmas, in Santa Claus, in family, and everything: She's six after all! She's the only one in the whole family with Christmas Spirit, and where the father takes them to the mall, Mary and Brian wander off together while Danny looks for his pretty girl, until they find a bag full of money and start having fun on their own, and the little girl trying on a load of new dresses acts exactly like a six-years-old I know: same faces, same posing..
:-) Of course the money was fake, and now two criminals are after them, but also the police because as soon as shop waiters realises the kids gave them fake money they talk to the police: Inspector Gordon is played by Tim Curry!!! And he's funny. :-) "bloody stupid place for a closet" :lol:
Of course it turns out the old man in the mall is the real Santa Claus who takes an interest in the family. The police arrests Wayne, thinking he's the boss of the operation... and of course the real bad guys are two complete idiots, and Santa keeps helping our kids :-)
So much that at the end he offers Wayne a new job, and they go to sleep exausted, but the next morning when Mom gets home, everything is neat and perfect, with a fireplace and a tree and lots of presents, and everything , even the kitchen is perfect, everything's shiny and perfect, and the turkey is there too! Mary even got a letter from Santa Claus.
I've got to say that this Santa is the best Santa a movie has ever pictured, because he got mom home for Christmas, but also got a new job for dad, an ipod for Brian and an xbox360 for Danny....
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