The holiday spirit
It's been a while since a truly enjoyable holiday movie has hit the big screen. Scrooged comes to mind. But, it of course has the fatal flaw that Scrooge finally finds the true meaning of Christmas and becomes a nice guy. What a wuss.
So, much to my glee, we now have Bad Santa, a movie with no lovable characters, no heart-warming holiday message, and, above all, no life-changing true meaning of Christmas message.
It's crass. It's mean. It's obscene. And most of all, it's one of the funniest movies I've seen in a long time.
Billy Bob Thornton practically reeks of booze, stale cigarettes and sweat-stained Santa suit. Tony Cox and Thornton play well off each other and John Ritter makes the perfect nimrod. But it's Brett Kelly, who plays the kid, that really spices up the mix basically by just standing there and letting all this insanity go on around him.
Bad Santa is not for everyone. It is a very dark comedy and the people who went to it because Elf was sold out were in for a big shock. Especially the ones who walked out after about five minutes with their young kids in tow. (That's why they have ratings folks.) I'm actually surprised that the movie was made in the first place, but boy am I glad of it.
So in the spirit imparted to me by this moving holiday film, I give it two great big middle fingers up. And I'm really glad it didn't suck because it's the only movie I've seen in the last six months. I've got to get out more.
posted by Joseph @ 12/02/2003 07:54:00 PM
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