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Get Santa (2014)

December. 12,2014
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6.3
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PG
| Comedy Family

A father and son must team up to save Christmas when they discover Santa Claus sleeping in their garage, having crashed his sleigh and found himself on the run from the police.

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Odelecol
2014/12/12

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

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StyleSk8r
2014/12/13

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

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Nayan Gough
2014/12/14

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

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Erica Derrick
2014/12/15

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

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Christmas-Reviewer
2014/12/16

BEWARE OF BOGUS REVIEWS. SOME REVIEWERS HAVE ONLY ONE REVIEW. WHEN ITS A POSITIVE REVIEW THAT TELLS ME THEY WERE INVOLVED WITH THE PRODUCTION. IF ITS A NEGATIVE REVIEW THEN THEY MIGHT HAVE A GRUDGE AGAINST THAT PRODUCTION. NOW I HAVE REVIEWED OVER 200 Christmas MOVIES. I HAVE NO AGENDA. I AM FARE ABOUT THESE FILMS. In this film A 9-year-old boy Tom (Kit Connor) finds Santa Claus (Jim Broadbent) in his garden shed after Santa crashes his sleigh. Desperate to return to Lapland in time for Christmas, Santa asks Tom and his dad Steve (Rafe Spall) for help. It's just a few days before Christmas, and his reindeer are found running loose through the streets of London. This film is well made. The acting is fine and the story is family safe and adults will not be bored. If you are looking to something that is not a "Hallmark" Christmas movie then seek this out. It is worth buying.

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A_Different_Drummer
2014/12/17

Before we start our regularly schedule review, lets crate context.In the early days of Hollywood, x-mas movies were an oddity. They were in the process of finding themselves. Films like Miracle on 34th Street 1946 and Its a Wonderful Life 1947 (offically an X-mas tale because the story takes place around X-mas) were the exception, not the rule.Flash forward about 55 years or so and now you find that some countries (like Canada) have actually formed a cottage industry just turning out X-mas movies year after year, good story or bad, entertaining or not, just to feed the "maw" of the system. (Canada has even stooped so low as to remake a B--- version of Miracle on 34th Street 1946 ... apparently spurred on the US' horrific remake of the same film in 1994).So, therein likes the issue. When X-mas movies become commoditized, it becomes a real challenge that break away from the homogeneous sludge that passes for holiday movies these days.(Elf 2003 pulled it off -- wonderful and recommended).This film is not going to win any awards, but it holds the attention and has some really marvellous comedy bits buried here and there. (The "Crazy Jimmy Claus routine is worth the whole movie.) Recommended.

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Nicole of ArchonCinemaReviews.com
2014/12/18

Get Santa is a great new holiday movie with a decidedly British sense of humor about it.Santa Clause is in big trouble! A few days before Christmas while testing out a new sleigh he crashes it! His head is boggled, his reindeer are on the loose in London so he is stranded – which doesn't bode well for the children on Christmas Day.Lucky for him, a kid named Tom discovers Santa sleeping in his family's garage. Santa tries to rescue his reindeer from the impound and ends up fingerprinted and locked up. It's okay though, little Tom decides that he and his dad Steve need to help Get Santa outta London and back to the North Pole! Get Santa is a good family movie because it is a comedy for the adults and the children. Putting Kris Kringle in jail is definitely the humor for the adults. The father son duo out on the town helping Santa and saving Christmas is for the kids.Jim Broadbent is a great Santa for the circumstances of the film. He's jolly and looks the part but there is a twinkle in his eye that suggests Santa is in on the jokes while in prison. The rag tag group of prisoners and parolees that end up helping Mr. Claus are a nice and original change. They are gruff and tough but friendly and you won't find the curmudgeon who learns the meaning of Christmas cliché in Get Santa, thankfully.Christopher Smith's holiday film is a nice addition to the genre. Get Santa is not completely original nor is it extraordinary but it is sweet without being saccharine and appropriate for kids without seeming lazy.Check out our WEBSITE for all the recent releases reviewed in full.

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hounds_star
2014/12/19

This is yet another pretty obvious 'Santa in need of help' storyline with some lazy writing. I think primary school kids will enjoy it, especially the fart and poo scenes but I found it all rather weak with nowhere near enough funny scenes. I also thought the violent episode in the prison gym jarred. It was inappropriate and totally unnecessary - not least the 'jolly' music that was played over this fight. A sack over an unsuspecting prison guard would have sufficed, who could then have been gagged. Maybe they thought it would be funny - but it really wasn't. Sadly, despite some good cast members, not much in this film was.

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