Bad Santa

Pros: Crass, Disrespectful, Hilarious
Cons: Well, maybe some people won't like the crass and disrespectful parts. Meaning the whole movie.

Yes. I am aware that the post date on this review is October 4th. Yet I saw Christmas trees in a department store three weeks ago. Look out Christmas, here we come! I'll have a blue Christmas, that's certain…………………(1) There ...

Pros: John Ritter's Last Movie. Some funny things.
Cons: Offensive at times. John Ritter wasn't in much of the movie.

I’ve seen a few previews for Bad Santa and read some about the movie. It did sound interesting. I decided that I wanted to see it and recently had the chance to go. Willie and Marcus had worked together for ...

Pros: Thornton, Graham, Cox, Ritter, Mac, Zwigoff's direction
Cons: Not for every viewer's taste; movie gets heavy at climax

"Bad Santa" is a Christmas film about a St. Nicholas few of us knew when we were young. Billy Bob Thornton stars as Willie, an alcoholic safecracker who works one month out of the year so he can drink and cause trouble the other eleven. He has a ...

Pros: Thornton at his best
Cons: Some uptight folks may get offended... wait, that's a 'Pro.'

I loves me a movie that takes a tradition sacred to many and just warps it and tweaks it and stomps all over it. That takes guts. Bad Santa is one of the best at this that I've seen so far. What we have here is a department store Santa played ...

Pros: Hilarious scripting; memorable dialogue; great comic performances
Cons: It's thoroughly profane and probably offensive to many viewers

Upon hearing that a movie called Bad Santa was being released, I have to admit that I had my doubts.  At the time of the film's release, I was working at a video store and had perused so many asinine supposed comedies that I had grown tired ...

Pros: Lauren Grahams smile, Billy Bob's humor, and Tony Cox as Marcus
Cons: Language

If I would have known that I would have little kids peeing in my lap for the next 30 days I would have killed myself a long time ago. I still might. -Bad Santa Not since Dan Akroyd donned ...

Pros: We get to see just how disgusting a retail store Santa can be.
Cons: Language, morality, disgusting.

If you're a fan of South Park or Beavis and Butthead, you will probably like this movie. I knew I wouldn't, but hubby wanted to see it. I threw in my $6. Bad Santa is absolutely disgusting. He is played by Billie Bob Thornton, an actor I have ...

Pros: Hilarious humor, easily the funniest film of the year.
Cons: Goes over the top at some points, not for kids or Michael Medved.

Hype can be as pervasive in Hollywood as it can in the world of music. How many times have you heard a movie get described as the "funniest of the year" only to be seriously disappointed later on (My Big Fat Greek Wedding for instance). More often than ...

Pros: absolutely hilarious
Cons: some pacing issues, nothing major

I first saw a preview for Bad Santa about four weeks ago. I hadn't laughed that hard or that consistently at just a preview in a very very long time. That being said, I was nervous about this flick because there are oh so many times where ...

Pros: Profanely hilarious; gloriously non-PC
Cons: Might be a bit too...oppressively raunchy for many.

Even the most cynical of bastards love a little something about the Holiday Season. It could just be the silly songs or the happily bustling malls, but after a while (say like, two weeks before Christmas actually arrives) it starts to get a bit grating. ...

Pros: Thoroughly funny irreverent farce, well acted and directed.
Cons: Not much of a 'family' movie, but the old folks have to get away sometime.

I have very little excuse for writing a review of a movie that has already generated 56 others and is over a year old. But I just saw it for the first time and I can't control my impulse to say something. Why? Because this movie is slapstick, irreverent, ...

Pros: Billy Bob Thornton at his best. The supporting cast. Hilarious!
Cons: Feels repetitive in the middle. The robbery scam is weak.

How many times have we seen this story? A grumpy older man who resents Christmas and generally anything cheerful is slowly thawed by an adorable kid who teaches him the true spirit of the holidays. Director Terry Zwigoff (man I loved 'Ghost World') takes ...

Pros: Outstanding heartfelt holiday movie. Billy Bob Thornton, and Bretty Kelly
Cons: A bit vulger, and crude for a Christmas movie. Definitely not suitable for children.

After reading my review on "Bad Santa" you may say you're crazy to to draw any good conclusions about this film this movie. Actually, I'm not, and I must say there are many, many good things about this motion picture despite its ...

Pros: Great and outrageously funny!!
Cons: None to date.

WHY BAD SANTA? This is one bad funky-dope outrageously hilarious and funny movie!! It will have you laughing so hard that your sides will ache!!! The ridiculously funny hilarious antics of the characters in this film will have you rolling on the floor ...

Pros: Hilarious; Billy Bob Thornton and Brett Kelley
Cons: Too far fetched and offensive for its own good

"There's an adult world and there's a kid's world," the late John Ritter states in BAD SANTA, reflecting on the obscene behavior of his store Santa, and never the twain shall meet. Typically holiday films are geared toward the whole family, with the kind ...