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Willie T. Stokes is a washed-up, wise-cracking Department Store Santa who can't help but be more naughty than nice. Underneath his ill-fitting red suit, Willie is actually a safecracker who makes one ...( read more 
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MCT:October 3, 2008this is my fav xmas movie of all time and id say....willie is me in 20 years or less.... so i might as well soak it up while i can... "IM ON FUCKING BREAK!" "gear? you mean my fuck stick?"
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MCT:September 27, 2008
I don't quite remember how the movie was. But I recalled that Bad Santa was dumb, but hillarious at the same time.
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MCT:September 15, 2008
It had some heart,but being a movie centered around a kid a holiday big with kids,it was too trashy for me.I flinched at some of the scenes,felt let down ,and certainly didn't want the kids to view this movie.I expected more and better from this cast.Have to give it to Billy Bob Thornton,he did the role justice as a bummed out criminal with a soft spot.
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MCT:August 10, 2008
One of the all time great Christmas movies. This is simply one of the funniest and foul movies ever made.
Billy Bob is perfect as the drunk "Bad" Santa and Tony Cox shows he's got great comedic timing. Lauren Graham plays against type as the girl with the Santa fetish and the "Kid" Brett Kelly is absolutely perfect.
It was a little weird to see the scenes between John Ritter and Bernie Mac now that they are both gone but they were both extremely funny nonetheless.
If crappy movies can get sequels then why not this one? When Christmas time rolls around, instead of putting on those schmaltzy family flicks put on this film and laugh your ass off. -
MCT:July 26, 2008
This movie gets funnier every time I watch it. Full of memorable scenes and one-liners. John Ritter goes out at the top of his game!
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MCT:July 21, 2008Bill Bob wasnt just born to play the role of "Anti-Santa", he's actually an immortal who has always and will forever be "The Anti Santa". Those who dont have severe alcoholism in their family might not get this, those who do might feel like its too true to watch.
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MCT:July 13, 2008
Actually kind of good. Tony Cox (the 'elf) really needs to be in more movies. He's unforgettable as "the colored elf" in 'The Hebrew Hammer.' Yay, Ajay Naidu (Samir in 'Office Space') is back!
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MCT:June 25, 2008The blackest of black comedies, so black that many will miss the point. Bitingly funny, uncompromising and possibly the best Christmas movie I have ever seen. Billy Bob is brilliant.
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MCT:June 19, 2008
Bad Santa was hillarious, I wish they made more movies like this one. It was one of those Billy Bob Thornton type movies that made me laugh my ass off.
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MCT:June 9, 2008
Hilarious at times but this black comedy probably wont be for everybody. Billy Bob Thorton gives a great performance and the cast is very good. A christmas movie for the grumpy grinches out there who are sick of the eberything is wonderful christmas movies.
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MCT:June 4, 2008
"I'm an eating, drinking, shitting, fucking Santy Claus."
Bad Santa is the furthest thing from your traditional, normal, good-natured family Christmas fare. Despite being a comedy, this is a Christmas movie you will want to keep away from your children. The film did not receive its rating due to one or two uses of the f-word...the whole movie is crude, disturbing, perverted and vulgar; containing about 150 uses of the f-word and its variations, as well as several other profanities and even sex scenes during the film's 95-minute running time. In a sense it's a refreshing alteration of the usual Christmas movie. I was growing tired of the cheesy feel good Christmas movies (like The Santa Claus and its sequels, among many others) made merely for a few extra bucks and with the target audience of children in mind. This can't be stressed enough: Bad Santa is entirely inappropriate for anyone under the age of 15!
Willie (Thornton) is a hard-drinking, heavy smoking, no-hoper sexaholic who is probably the most despicable and disgusting person ever to don the big red Santa suit. Every Christmas, Willie and his midget African-American partner Marcus (Cox) get a job at a typical department store as Santa and his elf. The use of this guise allows them to pull off the perfect crime every year on Christmas Eve: they rob the department store, share the money and live the high life on the proceeds throughout the succeeding year. Then when Christmas comes around again, Willie and Marcus will move to another department store with the same plan in mind. The ruse has proved successful for many years; however this year is a little different. The scam is becoming endangered as Willie's drinking problem is slowly getting the better of him. He is frequently drunk, and is unable to control his urges to fornicate with anything that moves. Trouble also ensues when Willie befriends a young kid (Kelly) who believes that Willie - despite being frequently intoxicated, foul-mouthed and repulsive - is actually the real Santa.
The film sounds straightforward and simple, right? Despite its outer show suggesting a stupid, excruciating film that is nothing but profanity...the film actually has a deeper meaning and (surprisingly) has a unique Christmas flavour. The whole film will not appeal to all tastes with its crude dialogue and dark humour. With Joel and Ethan Coen on-board as executive producers I think it's fair to assume what the outcome will be: a Christmas movie that is drastically different.
Billy Bob Thornton was nominated for a Golden Globe for his outstanding performance. With a well-acted screen persona of being bad tempered and lewd, Thornton is the last guy you'd like to see slipping on Santa's big red suit. Of course the bad nature of his character only heightens Thornton's acting skills. This is the role that the man was born to play! Tony Cox is really hilarious at times as well. Who would expect an African-American midget to be a criminal? In the cast there's also Brett Kelly, Lauren Graham and Bernie Mac. They are all pretty standard for the genre. Kelly has the typical look of a child who suffers from frequent bullying and taunting. He never strikes a false note.
Okay, so Bad Santa takes all the Christmas conventions and happy things about the season: turning them completely on their head. Like I said this is not a Christmas film you will merrily enjoy on Christmas Eve while in the company of your children. There's no sentimentality and no glossy ending. Instead we have dialogue consisting of swearing, perversion, people jokes and some bawdy humour. This is dark comedy at its finest.
With the Coen Brothers as executive producers and Terry Zwigoff at the helm...draw your own conclusions. Love it or hate it, I found Bad Santa to simply be a few laughs and some heart at its core. It's not brilliant and it won't win any Oscars, but it will provide easy entertainment on a simple evening. -
MCT:May 27, 2008
Possibly my favourite comedy of all time, a family Christmas film this ain't! In fact quite the contrary.
Billy-Bob's charater's bad attitude is hillarious, he plays a bad guy really well and the shock factor lasts throughout the film. Definitely my kind of humour. -
MCT:May 25, 2008
Crude, ridiculous at times and extremely funny. I watched htis movie a couple of years ago and it hasn't lost any of it's appeal.
Definately well worth a watch especially if you have a special kind of sense of humour. This is by far one of Thorntons better movies as of late.
A good if slightly different christmas movie to watch this year. Breaks the mould of christmas movies. -
MCT:May 20, 2008
Billy Bob Thornton can actually go from making the viewer hate him because he's so despicable to making you adore him because he's so, well, adorable. Bad Santa is one twisted movie, but it's hilarious all the same.
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MCT:May 12, 2008
halirious dis movie was the must seen of the year i LOVED IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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MCT:April 7, 2008
Gee... plenty of coarse languages I ever read (in English subtitles, you know because I'm deaf) by a very naughty Santa played by Billy Bob Thornton, but he made me laugh as hell in this anti-holiday season comedy. The challenged Saint Nick is an alcoholic safecracker who likes to have sex with overweight ladies from the rear and even urinates on himself as spurts of ranchy but inspired comedy are overwhelmed by a constant flow of obscenities. This movie goes for the tribute of actor John Ritter in his latest one.
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MCT:March 28, 2008
This is one of the best comedies of the decade. The evolution of Santa and the kid a very well written- meaning not cheesy, which is kind of hard to do.
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MCT:February 26, 2008
Only Billy Bob Thornton could play this role and in a way funny, washed up drunck that by the end of the film is also endearing
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MCT:February 20, 2008
There is no one on this planet who could have done a better job in this movie then Billy Bob Thornton. He was hilarious in a totally innappropriate way. And it was nice to see him have a change of heart at the end of the movie.
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MCT:February 15, 2008Few good lines and not very funny. Too depressing character to make it a comedy. Not quite my type of comedy.
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MCT:February 1, 2008tres, tres horrible! the only good thing about this movie is that Lauren Graham plays in it! honestly i wasn't interested in watching it but my brother watched it so i watched alongside him, but it ws really baaaaaaaaaaaaad!
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MCT:January 20, 2008I was surprised by how unfunny I found this. I assumed I would love the dark aspects, but they just came off as dark and not really funny. A comedy that isn't funny isn't really what I want to spend my time on.
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MCT:January 9, 2008
the most horrible Christmas movie i have ever seen in my life. It was not funny either. It was quite disturbing.
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KarnEvil9posted 338 days ago -
This movie is one of my fav.!! It was soooo funny & kept me rolling all through!! Love it!!
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