Director: Christopher Smith
Writer: Christopher Smith
Starring: Jim Broadbent, Rafe Spall, Kit Connor
I feel that there is no mixture of genres, nationalities and
subject matters that look consistently more underwhelming than British
Christmas comedy movies. The nativity movies honestly looked like they were
made by a primary school. After watching the trailer for this movie preceding
Paddington, I was convinced that it was going to be awful. While it didn’t
totally blow me away, it was nowhere near as bad as I thought it was going to
be.
Santa [Jim Broadbent] has been arrested for trying to steal back his reindeer. This means that the father and son generic duo [Rafe Spall, Kit Connor] have to save Christmas and break Santa from prison.
Where the movie succeeds is in how it plays with your expectations. Warwick Davis is only really in the movie because you expect him to be an elf and they can bung him on the posters. Everything that he does in the movie is actually hilarious. On a rather unrelated note, I have finally realised how many references there are to more adult movies there are in children’s films. Before the movie I saw a ‘Silence of the Lambs’ reference in a trailer for ‘The Shaun the Sheep Movie’. This film contains a very well impersonated reference to the ‘Shawshank Redemption’.
The thing I most noted in the movie was how the music was used. The genres were instantly recognisable and added to the jokes that were going on. I would like to use an example of one of these moments now but they make some of the funniest parts of the film so just trust me… it’s funny!
I wished more than anything else this Christmas that this movie would not have stupid looking CGI because it would have worked so much better if it didn’t have it. There were two notably dumb sequences that you could tell were all filmed in an entirely green room. In one they are flying through a massive box kite. It had the production value of Spy Kids 2. Perhaps there should be a theatrical cut with a few more cuts.
The film was pretty well summed up when my sister said ‘it wasn’t really Arthur Christmas’. This statement is entirely true. While the film isn’t nearly as bad as I expected, there was nothing in it that made it more than mediocre. Arthur Christmas has fantastic animation, Home Alone has myriad memorable moments and Elf has Will Ferrell. Get Santa, unfortunately, has nothing.
Get Santa is an unexpectedly funny Christmas film with some outstandingly terrible CGI sequences. It isn’t awful but it doesn’t have the memorability of the Christmas classics.
Get Santa receives a: 5/10
Santa [Jim Broadbent] has been arrested for trying to steal back his reindeer. This means that the father and son generic duo [Rafe Spall, Kit Connor] have to save Christmas and break Santa from prison.
Where the movie succeeds is in how it plays with your expectations. Warwick Davis is only really in the movie because you expect him to be an elf and they can bung him on the posters. Everything that he does in the movie is actually hilarious. On a rather unrelated note, I have finally realised how many references there are to more adult movies there are in children’s films. Before the movie I saw a ‘Silence of the Lambs’ reference in a trailer for ‘The Shaun the Sheep Movie’. This film contains a very well impersonated reference to the ‘Shawshank Redemption’.
The thing I most noted in the movie was how the music was used. The genres were instantly recognisable and added to the jokes that were going on. I would like to use an example of one of these moments now but they make some of the funniest parts of the film so just trust me… it’s funny!
I wished more than anything else this Christmas that this movie would not have stupid looking CGI because it would have worked so much better if it didn’t have it. There were two notably dumb sequences that you could tell were all filmed in an entirely green room. In one they are flying through a massive box kite. It had the production value of Spy Kids 2. Perhaps there should be a theatrical cut with a few more cuts.
The film was pretty well summed up when my sister said ‘it wasn’t really Arthur Christmas’. This statement is entirely true. While the film isn’t nearly as bad as I expected, there was nothing in it that made it more than mediocre. Arthur Christmas has fantastic animation, Home Alone has myriad memorable moments and Elf has Will Ferrell. Get Santa, unfortunately, has nothing.
Get Santa is an unexpectedly funny Christmas film with some outstandingly terrible CGI sequences. It isn’t awful but it doesn’t have the memorability of the Christmas classics.
Get Santa receives a: 5/10
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