IMDb plot summary: A miserable conman and his partner pose as Santa and his Little Helper to rob department stores on Christmas Eve. But they run into problems when the conman befriends a troubled kid.
Directed by Terry Zwigoff. Starring Billy Bob Thornton, Tony Cox, Brett Kelly, and Lauren Graham.
I didn't enjoy a SINGLE second of this. The primary brand of humor seems to be that cursing at/around kids is incongruous and therefore inherently funny, or maybe that seeing someone in a Santa suit spout sexual innuendo is funny. I'm not opposed to dirty humor, but none of these lines are clever or interesting, and I'm done with the shock value after about 5 minutes and ready for it to move on to something else. Unfortunately, it never does, and just treads the same old jokes over and over again, but they never land any better. At least this movie is mercifully short at just barely over an hour and a half.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Bad Santa < To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Bad Santa < The Cocoanuts
Bad Santa < Oklahoma! (1955)
Bad Santa < The Art of War
Bad Santa < Laserblast
Bad Santa > Don't Touch If You Ain't Prayed
Bad Santa < Ladies in Lavender
Bad Santa > Identity Thief
Bad Santa < The Truth About Charlie
Bad Santa < Paulie
Bad Santa < Ella Enchanted
Bad Santa < The Ultimate Gift
Final spot: #3235 out of 3299, or 2%.
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