Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town

One of a number of stop motion holiday specials that annually resurface, there's not a single one of these that's any less than solid. Perfectly fine viewing once every couple years when the yules are tiding. Yep, I know what I just did there.

Santa makes for a creepy young child molester. Fred Astaire talks to inanimate bags of mail for the running time, while Santa learns how to say Ho from seals, which is absolutely hilarious to me, though not in a redeeming way.

You put ooooone fooot in front of the ooootheeeer. And soon you'll be walking out the doooOOOoOooOOOr!

You'd better watch out! You'd better not cry! You'd better not pout! I'm telling you why....ah, nothing says Christmas like making idle threats towards children! Most people know the legend, but I like the spin this puts on the Kris Kringle lore, notably that Santa was a freckle faced ginger!!! The film also features one of the best named characters in film history, the Mayor of Sombertown, Burgermeister Meisterburger!! Ha, I'd vote for that guy on his name alone. Just kidding...I don't vote.

Good wholesome Christmas fun for the whole family

About the significance of enchantment and of not only living but living well and better. Fred Astaire's participation is a nice surprise.

I never saw this as a kid, as I don't think it's a christmas staple here in Argentina, so there's no nostalgia attached to it. It's... not great. It's got some charm I suppose, but yeah, no.

My wife loved this movie and it took her down memory lane. As for me I had never seen this before and I loved making fun of it. So we both had a good time.

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A Santa Claus origin story. Sounds promising. But the adventures aren't interesting and the songs are crap. "One foot in front of the other, that's how you walk across the floor."? Are you serious??? What's next? "Down and up and down and up, that is how you blink"? Next year, when we have an itch for holiday claymation, we'll just stick with Rudolph.