EMMETT Of The Unblinking Eye
TOP 10 SANTA CLAUS MOVIES OF ALL TIME!!!
December 23, 2005
What's Christmas without Santa? Want to see how Hollywood's treated him. Take a look at my list of the Top 10 Santa Claus Movies of All Time!
| 10. | Santa Claus - The Movie (1985): Actually,
this is not a great movie, but it has an interesting history.
In '85 this was supposed to be the big Christmas blockbuster.
It wasn't, and was, frankly, an embarrassment to the studio.
But it does have a good performance by David Huddleston in
the title role. |
| 9. | The Grinch (2000): Not my favorite film, and Jim Carrey doesn't make much of Santa Claus, but frankly, the pickings are pretty slim. |
| 8 | The Santa Clause (1994): Tim Allen
does a good job as a reluctant Santa. |
| 7 | The Polar Express (2004): In my view, a really creepy movie, but Tom Hanks
does make a pretty good Santa. |
| 6 | The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993): Tim Burton has
created an interesting film with a bit of a grotesque premise,
but his vision of Santa is certainly interesting. How
may skeletons can pull off Santa?? |
| 5 | Elf (2003): Politically, Ed Asner may
not
be such of a much, but he does make a pretty decent Santa. |
| 4 | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005): Now here's a Santa Claus! James Cosmo's Father Christmas brings actual weaponry, which would greatly please the hero in our No. 3 film. |
| 3 | A Christmas Story (1983): Think
of how different this movie would have been if Peter Billingsley
had directed his request for a Red Ryder BB gun to Father Christmas
in Narnia
than to Jeff Gillen's Santa? |
| 2 | Bad Santa (2003):
Hard to think of a more ill-advised Santa than Billy Bob Thornton,
or a more unlikely Christmas movie, but it's well worth seeing
if you're in that "bah humbug" sort of mood. |
|
1 |
Miracle on 34th Street |
(1947): If you
ever need to get in the Christmas spirit, and 
just doesn't do it for you any more, let One antler short of a reindeer:
| = | Holiday Inn |
| = | The Lemon Drop Kid |
| = | Trading Places |
(1942)
(1942)
(1983)Personally, I'd stay away from such classics as Santa's Slay
(2005), Santa Claws
(1997) or Hulk Hogan
in Santa With Muscles
(1997), widely regarded to be the worst movie ever made