Santa with Muscles (1996)

Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Good movie but grossly overrated

A lot of fun.

A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

Although the movie is quite silly, it's great fun. Kids should love it. Parents don't have to worry about bad language. The plot is predictable ... well, with a few exceptions. You've got to love the secret that lies beneath the orphanage. Interestingly you'll see two folks from just a couple of years before they appeared on That Seventies Show. People that mention how some scenes don't make sense are totally missing the point - you're supposed to simply laugh at the bizarre plot. So, take a chill pill and just enjoy the antics. The villains are gloriously rotten. Robin Curtis was a surprise to see in a movie like this. All of the low ratings must be from folks that have never learned to laugh.

I thought that this was actually one of HOGANS better movies. It seems like every time HOGAN comes out with a new movie, no matter what kind of movie it is, before people even watch the movie they are all ready to put it down without even giving it a chance. Most of HOGANS movies are not meant to win any awards as much as they are just meant to be good clean family comedy's.This is a movie that i try to watch at least once or twice during the Christmas season. With wrestling and making movies having a lot in common I think if HOGAN wanted to he could be a "better actor" if he wanted to, but I believe he goes into these movies just to have fun and make some kids happy.

The problem with Hulk Hogan as an actor is that, while he's not Brando, he has his moments where he's okay. That said, all he seems to lend his name to is rubbish children's movies. The only serious thing he seems to have done is Rocky III (you be the judge of how serious that is). This is the ultimate example of that children's movie crap. Hogan is a wealthy man who loses his memory and somehow thinks he is Santa. He is taken in by an orphanage, who are trying to stop some villain doing something. Seriously, that's how forgettable this film is. The acting is poor. Hulk manages to lay some cool smackdown, but then again, so does Jean Claude. The children are all that breed of little goof ball's trying to be cute. Ed Begley Jr is just unnecessary. Many people have a real hatred towards Christmas movies. Of course, they can't all be Bad Santa, the Santa Clause, The Nightmare Before Christmas or the all time great, It's A Wonderful Life. But this is just lazy. Considering Hogan's potential for cool, violent films, this just wastes the most awesome wrestler ever. Just like everything else. I can't give it a one, but it's certainly not worth a passing grade. It's just dosh.

Hulk Hogan and movies. We can only hope the two will never be united again as they were in this travesty of cinema. Truly the essence of wrestlecrap was distilled to make this movie. I mean a robotic santa? Whose idea was that? Why was this movie made? Did anyone even go to see it? And what the heck are exploding crystals supposed to be? A kid says she had heard of them before from a book. I think she had confused science fiction with geology there! Was Hulk hogan ever in a none-dreadful movie role? Answers on a post card please. Kill this movie! Burn it! Destroy it! Let no copies live! I am reliably informed that if they ever make a sequel to this film it is the last of the signals that Armageddon has started. And if it isn't it ought to be! Please note that though I labeled my review as containing a spoiler, nothing could spoil a movie this bad, so don't let it worry you.