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Dear Santa, Please Sod Off

posted 11 years ago by Larry-R
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In this movie Santa decides to take a couple who seem fine together, and sabotage their relationship by keeping them apart and tempting them with single people who are attracted to them, such that after a few days each member of the original couple has unilaterally decided to ditch the other without even talking to them about it.

I think this movie succeeds in making Santa and all the other principals look like a**sholes. Maybe that was the goal. It is not what I want to see in a Christmas movie. I think the casting and acting and production were fine though; everything was fine but the script.

[–] Ash-lee 11 years ago

I agree - the movie should've been called: Cheating on our Significant Others at Christmas. Not what you want to see in a Christmas movie. I would've been a lot better if they had dropped the secondary couple storyline (along with the annoying/insensitive mother) and just had the main couple be strangers or friends stranded in the town.

[–] Van-Fro 11 years ago

Cheating? They both fell for someone else, and both were going to break up with the other at the first opportunity. I think that is the right thing to do in a dating relationship. Cheating would be if they kept up both relationships through deception. Further, we don't really know if they committed to being monogamous anyway.

[–] Ash-lee 11 years ago

Cheating is emotional or physical attachment to another person while involved with someone else. They kissed, they fell in love, while still with other people. Just because they both did it, does not make it right - it means they're both cheaters.

[–] Rpdsf 9 years ago

Ash-lee stated: "Cheating is emotional or physical attachment to another person while involved with someone else. They kissed, they fell in love, while still with other people. Just because they both did it, does not make it right - it means they're both cheaters."

I'm a little torn on this one. Although I thoroughly enjoyed the movie and was happy to see both end up with people more of a match for them, I have to admit that I was somewhat uncomfortable with the premise. If kissing could be described as an intimate act then I guess it would fit the definition of cheating. I lean towards it just being something generally unacceptable in a monogamous relationship. That however was not made clear in the movie although it could be assumed. If they were engaged or married then that would be different.

If you look at it from the standpoint of Santa, he was granting a girls wish and to set things right, he found a proper partner for the boyfriend. So I guess in his mind it was no harm, no foul. If you choose not to be judgemental and accept the movie for what it is, as I did, then it's more enjoyable. Some movies aren't meant for the characters to be scrutinized too closely and this was one of them so just sit back and enjoy it for what it is.

[–] LandOLaLa 11 years ago

I agree. I definitely thought he meddled way too much. Their coming together wasn't natural. Her boyfriend wasn't a bad guy, he was just busy with work. It made me really annoyed with Santa and I don't like that.

[–] Harbinger_3781 8 years ago

Yup. Think the old man tried WAY too hard this time. First off, I don't believe Santa's magic should work this way, or that it should be ever displayed in visible effects(art least not THAT kind anyways), or in front of mortal eyes(characters in the story and audience alike), or be materialized at all. Second - all magic comes with a price; wonder what's gonna be the price for Santa, utilizing his magic in that amount and frequency. Three... I hate meddlers. RUI(Romance Under Influence) really RUI-ns the chemistry and the naturalness of falling in love on their own will.

Think his headquarters should really demote this old man and have him knick-knack, paddy-whack, give a dog a bone and send him rolling home - Santas are couriers and beacons of hope; the last thing they should be are meddlers!

[–] freebird1987 10 years ago

Santa was a jerk in this movie.

[–] Tom444 10 years ago

mild spoiler

The right people wound up together and unlike many other movies, there was no lonely castoff left.

I like it.

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[–] first-things-first 9 years ago

This was a bad Santa movie. There were clues that Justin was taking Melanie for granted, but to use Santa as a wing man was bad.

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[–] jassi_27 7 years ago

Agree, watching now and Santa needed to mind his own business. I would have preferred she ended up with the other guy. I just didn't care for the guy she ended up with and it annoyed me that he kept interfering. The Mom was annoying too.

[–] Owlnut73 7 years ago

He should go on his own "Naughty" list!