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Dear Santa 2024 Movie Review@filotasriza3538d
Christmas is over and the new year is already here, see what i did there? It's never too late for a Christmas movie through, especially when Jack Black is in it. In general watching movies with Jack Black, one can expect that he/she will likely have some fun but it won't be the movie of the year or a masterpiece. School of Rock was though. Anyway, this is a movie that was released on 25 November, literally one month before Christmas, let's start with the plot now!
Plot
The plot is pretty straightforward. It's Christmas, we got a young boy named Liam Turner who has a speech disorder, he has only one friend and in general, his family is worrying about him. Also, his family has issues and is about to file for divorce.
Even though he is not that young to believe in Santa he still has some hopes and like each year he emails letting him know what he wants. He makes a minor mistake though. Instead of sending it to Santa though, we wrote "To Satan" so guess who arrived at his home, Satan played by Jack Black.
So Jack Black made a suggestion to him. He can have 3 wishes, anything that he wants in exchange for his soul! So the whole movie is around the wishes of Liam and how these wishes affect him and the lives of everyone around him.
Good and Bad
Honestly, this is a Christmas movie that you can enjoy watching but don't expect anything much. Some jokes are funny, some aren't. I like Jack Black, most of the times he is playing himself and i like that. The idea of Satan instead of Santa was funny and unique but don't expect any plot twist, or something extremely interesting.
It's a movie to kill time, watch with your kids or something, or simply to have something on the TV or PC when eating. It may seem harsh but i would give it a 5/10. Maybe if i was a kid and watching this movie, i would have liked it a lot, but not at my current age! Btw have you watched it?
FELIZ NAVIDAD jo jo jo, a todos los amigos de la Comunidad Hive hoy les he traído una Comedia, llamada QUERIDO SANTA, dirigida por Bobby Farelly, protagonizada por Jack Black, Robert Smith, Jaden Baker, Post Malone, Ben Stiller, entre otros.
¿De qué trata?
Un niño llamado Liam, decide enviar una carta a Santa Claus, pero debido a su dilexia escribe Satan en vez de Santa y la carta fue directamente al infierno, Satanás le concede tres deseos, luego pasara el alma de Liam en poder de Satan, a partir de allí comienza una disparatada aventura.
Opinión Personal
Qué paso con esta Película, qué horror, con un inicio muy bueno, un niño con dilexia confunde la posición de las letras y en vez de escribir SANTA coloco SATAN, dije se ve divertisima y cuando supe que satán era Jacks Black, me reí bastante.
Considero que la actuación de Jack Black estuvo genial, como siempre de loquito, es muy divertido, me hace acordar a Jin Carrey que la mayoría de sus personajes son similares. Con una trama deficiente, ¿no hubo una historia, el mensaje positivo que nos deja es que creamos en la Magia Navideña, y todo se hará realidad hasta la resurrección? O no.
Estoy de acuerdo que las películas de Fantasía y Ciencia Ficción, sean explicadas por los padres o un familiar, para que entiendan que es mentira, les cuento una compañera de trabajo llevo a sus hijos al cine para ver Superman y llegando a su casa, el niño de 7 años, se tiró del mueble porque iba a atravesar la pared, y que creen, ocho puntos en la frente. Que tal.
El niño no salía de una mentira, y los padres siempre discutiendo por cualquier cosa. Me gusto la actuación de Post Malone y Ben Stiller aunque no durara mucho.
Estoy de acuerdo que la Fe mueve montaña, pero utilizar a Santa Claus o Satán para una resurrección, me parece de mal gusto. Satán quedo como un ángel guindado en el arbolito. Y lo peor una resurrección que ni les cuento.
Esperando ver una Película Navideña realmente buena, les agradezco las sugerencias, sin más me despido, espero la vean y me comenté que les pareció, Besos y Abrazos
Hasta la próxima publicación, Dios los bendiga.
English
HAPPY CHRISTMAS ho ho ho, to all the friends of the Hive Community today I have brought you a Comedy, called QUERIDO SANTA, directed by Bobby Farelly, starring **Jack Black, Robert Smith, Jaden Baker, Post Malone, Ben Stiller, among others.
What is it about?
A boy named Liam, decides to send a letter to Santa Claus, but due to his dilexia he writes Satan instead of Santa and the letter went directly to hell, Satan gives him three wishes, then Liam's soul will pass into the power of Satan, from there begins a great adventure.
Personal Opinion
What happened with this movie, what a horror, with a very good beginning, a child with dilexia confuses the position of the letters and instead of writing SANTA I put SATAN, I said it looks hilarious and when I found out that satan was Jacks Black, I laughed a lot.
I think Jack Black's performance was great, as always as a crazy guy, he is very funny, he reminds me of Jin Carrey, most of his characters are similar. With a poor plot, wasn't there a story, the positive message it leaves us with is to believe in Christmas Magic, and everything will come true until the resurrection? Or not.
I agree that Fantasy and Science Fiction movies should be explained by the parents or a family member, so that they understand that it is a lie, I tell you a coworker took her children to the movies to see Superman and when they got home, the 7 year old boy jumped off the furniture because he was going to go through the wall, and what do you think, eight stitches in his forehead. How about that.
The kid didn't get out of a lie, and the parents always arguing about anything. I liked Post Malone and Ben Stiller's performance even if it didn't last long.
I agree that Faith moves mountains, but using Santa Claus or Satan for a resurrection seems to me to be in bad taste. Satan was left as an angel hanging on the tree. And what's worse, a resurrection that I can't even tell you about.
Hoping to see a really good Christmas Movie, I thank you for your suggestions, without further ado I say goodbye, I hope you see it and let me know what you thought, Kisses and Hugs.
Until the next publication, God bless you.
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Texto traducido por / Text translated by DeepL
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›Dear Santa (film): I think that people are just tired of Jack Black@netflixr578d
I don't know if I am or not but perhaps Mr. Black has run his course and it might be time for him to take a bit of a break or pull an Adam Sandler and perhaps try his hand at some sort of serious role instead of just playing the same super-hyped bearded guy in yet another movie. That is what he is in this movie and to be fair to Jack, this role seems to have been built around his already well-established persona and they did so without considering any other aspect of the film, including whether or not anyone else in the cast was actually capable of acting - which for the most part, they are not.
My source of films is affected by the Christmas season just like anyone else's are and had it not been for this fact, I likely wouldn't have known that this film was released at all and well, I think that was intentional on the part of the people who made it as well as Jack Black. The plot sounded interesting enough and when I read that one of the Farrelly brothers was a co-writer, a director, and a producer, I thought there was no chance that this movie could be bad. Spoiler alert! It is really bad.
The premise goes like this: A shy but good-hearted teen who has dyslexia is at a new school and struggles socially. He also hangs on to childish notions such as believing in Santa-Claus. So he writes a letter to Santa like he has always done but since he is dyslexic he actually ends up writing it to Satan.
To me that sounded like it could have been pretty funny and if they had made this rated-R I think it could have been but I guess to try to market this film to kids they went for a PG-13 route instead which simply means that there is a tiny bit of stating of "shit" and "bitch" in the movie but other than that it is squeaky clean and never crosses over into anything that could be considered more than poop-humor as far as how risque it is.
I understand why movies like this are made though because if somehow it ends up being a hit they have an excuse to release it every single year until the end of time. Home Alone and Die Hard still pull in millions in royalties every year when they are put on networks and streaming services and Jingle all the Way, which is terrible, is normally also up there as well.
I'm afraid that Dear Santa is just completely lacking in substance, likeable characters, or a coherent story. Instead it seems as though everyone in the cast was some sort of outreach program except for Jack Black - who they likely just gave a bunch of cocaine to and told him to "do his magic."
Since this is a kid's film it should come as no surprise that Satan is actually a pretty nice guy even though his end goal is to take the soul of the kid that wrote him the letter in the first place. There are life lessons built in there about being nice to people that are different than you and how bullying is wrong and Satan is a big advocate of these things - which is odd but hell, this is for kids and it doesn't need to make sense I guess.
The thing is, I don't think the kids are going to relate to the humor in it either because try as they may to bridge that gap between adults and kids these days, they fail on both fronts.
They even throw a PostMalone concert in there that clearly is NOT a Post Malone concert because the venue is way too small and well this is where my obliviousness in youth culture kicks in. Is Post Malone a big part of the lives of 12 year old's? I don't think this was intentional but Post Malone is one of the few people in the entire cast that is actually capable of convincing acting. I know that he has been in a few things and has shined but her really shines here because the people on screen, especially the kids, are just awful.
Should I watch it?
I was severely disappointed in this movie and don't think you should but if you do then watch it with the fast-forward button in hand and maybe it will be tolerable. I don't think that even Paramount has any faith in this film making it and if we were in another time this would have definitely been straight-to-DVD.
Paramount even buried this release and it wasn't really talked about at all outside of a very small internet advertising initiative.
I know that my opinion well might be a bit tainted though because I have been a fan of Tenacious-D before Jack Black was ever in any movies and that was a long time ago. Therefore, I might be more sick of his usual acting than most people. That doesn't change the fact that this feel-good movie is filled with bad acting and bad writing though and the jokes simply aren't funny. I don't recall so much as cracking a smile throughout the entire thing.
I don't think this is good for kids either because even though there are some messages in there about being nice, even on the part of Satan, there is a lot of unnecessary foul-mouth sections that you might not want your kids emulating. I know nothing about the youth of today though so perhaps this is really tame by their standards as well.
I couldn't get into it and I really tried two times to make that happen hoping there was something magical that I was missing: There wasn't.
The only legal way to watch this at the moment is with a Paramount subscription
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The only legal way to watch this at the moment is with a Paramount subscription