Dudley Moore, John Lithgow, David Huddleston
The first half of this film, set hundreds of years ago, shows how the old man who eventually became Santa Claus was given immortality and chosen to deliver toys to all the children of the world. The s...( read more
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DVD Release Date: October 4, 2005
Stats: 694 reviews
A fantastic cast and a magical film, I have such fond memories of watching this as a child. Unfortunately, on re-watching this last Christmas, I was horrified to realise this is an awful film. Still, I'm giving it a decent rating for the child inside.
This is one of the first Christmas movies I saw as a child. There is an evil toy manufacturer who tricks Patch (head elf) to produce toys to eliminate the need for Santa Claus but Santa saves the day. Hooray!
It wasn't a magical Christmas movie. You'd expect from the folks who brought us the Superman films, something called "Santa Claus - The Movie" would be truly amazing. But it was a dismal bore. Santa had no personality. Dudley was good as the bad Elf. There was no magic here.
How Santa got the job! but one elf is put under scrutany and so joins a business tycoon in the possibility of regaining Santa's favour.
this and scrooge were the very 1st xmas films i ever saw. i love them both and will always be classics to me.
I loved this as a kid and watched it this last xmas and it still stood up as a great cheesy xmas spirited film :D
this is a top festive feelgood family movie a must see and def one to own
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