Mst3k: 8/10

Immensely goofy, but not over-the-top enough to fulfill its premise.

One of the most ridiculous premises for a movie ever. This movie should not be watched in any other form besides MST3K.

I'm really surprised to not see Ed Wood's name not attached to this garbage. I wish I would have seen the MST3K version because at least I would have had a laugh. This really is one of the worst movies every made. From horrible costumes, bad set and even worse acting, I would have liked to have been a fly on the wall when they were showing this movie to the studio exec that green lighted this. This is even a bad movie for children.

I lol'd. :D

Truly a terrible film in every single sense of the word. Only the MST3K of it can actually make the film endurable because it is just THAT terrible.

Should be seen just for the Martians' space gear.

Easily one of the best movies ever to be riffed on MST3K. Even without Joel and the bots, its just silly and kind of fun. Is it a good movie? No, not by a long shot. But it is ridiculous and watchable; I'd recommend it to anyone who is a fan of old B-movies.

I watched this thinking it was one of those films that's so terrible it's good... *SPOILER ALERT:* It wasn't.

This is one of those movies that need to be watched if you like low budget camp classics. The script is bad and the budget is beyond low. This would fall under the category of being so bad it is entertaining.

Seeing SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS on the big screen is a rare treat indeed; this level of ineptitude really does gain from the added depth and detail. Chintzy sets and costumes, immensely laughable special effects, painful comic relief, a Martian oracle on the verge of a nervous breakdown, a creepy, drunk Santa Claus, and an appearance by future bad-movie starlet Pia Zadora all add up to a uniquely awful movie experience. To be fair, Vincent Beck embraces his campy villain role with glee.

10 points for Dropo

I'll be honest, despite all of it's terribleness, I sort of love this movie. It's just so goofy and lighthearted that I find it hard to hate.

Fell asleep in the middle of it. Probably a good idea.

At the very least, this is better than Christmas with the Kranks.

Horrible and hilarious.

Who knew the word 'conquer' had such a loose definition?

The only thing that irked me about the film was Santa himself, he's the usually jolly persona but he has this air of superiority about him like he looks down on everyone because he is the all-mighty and all powerful Santa and he knows you revere him and he exploits it by laughing inappropriately and making slightly sinister remarks. After I noticed this aspect of his personality, I started to dislike him more and more until he started to frighten me a bit.

I watched the MST 3000 version and even they could'nt do much to make this film enjoyable.

A bad comedy is never so bad it's good. It's just very bad. That's exactly how bad this is.

Somewhat charming.

Attempting to watch this is like trying to listen to fingernails scraping on a chalkboard continuously for two hours. It's not even funny-bad, it's just excruciating

Voldar is a king.

Must be seen to be believed!

God it was bad, and not one of those "so bad it's funny" types of bad, either.

Everyone should see it. It's part of general culture. Apart from that, it's an awfully made, weakly acted, capitalist propaganda piece of children's science fiction.

It's soooooooooo bad, it's bad.

It wasn't even bad enough to be funny, it just hurt to watch/. Watched the end in fast forward, pretty much got the gist of it from there.

The title is very deceiving. Santa does the exact opposite of conquering the martian race. Besides that this was a load of total nonsense.

So crappy, so much fun. Pia Zadora is about 8 in this. 2 points for the film itself, 50 for being so bad it's almost good!

So bad its good.

"Hooray for Santy Claus!" I hated this New York-shot holiday "classic" when I was dragged to see it at some late '60s kiddie matinee, and I don't like it much now either. Maybe the creepiest Christmas movie this side of _Silent Night, Deadly Night_, it's easy to laugh at but leaves you feeling pretty weird all the same.

After 5 minutes, my friends and I watched it in Fast Forward through on demand - Made it a lot more entertaining but still not bad enough to be entertaining; no matter how intoxicated you are.

Yep, it's THEE greatest and cheesiest film of them all! There's some extra scenes cut from the MST3K airing, and it's all gold baby! [Cinematic Titanic: I have to question the motives behind this. There's some great riffs, don't get me wrong, but most everything else sounded like Tier 2 material with some pauses where the best MST3k jokes fit in.]

One of the worst movies of all time. You have to be as drunk as possible to even be able to sit throught it.