Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.
Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.
Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
Zbigniew_Krycsiwiki Garden gnomes sing and dance, briefly, yet interminably, before Santa Clod- I mean, Santa Claus, gets his sleigh stuck in a light dusting of beach sand on a Florida beach. His reindeer abandoned him, and who could blame them? A group of horrendously annoying, ugly kids with huge teeth are telepathically summoned in freeze-frame, they find him (after running past the same house twice) gather round him, and use conveniently located goats, chickens, mules, and even a guy in an ape costume, to try to move his sleigh. When that proves useless, these obviously bored kids spend an inordinate amount of time listening to him tell them fairy tales- either Thumbelina, or Jack and the Beanstalk, depending on which version one watches, which is merely used to pad out the film's runtime.The Santa footage appears to be silent footage, with sound dubbed in afterward, there are continuity issues left and right, a Santa who looks like he's about 30, and taken a dump in his Santa suit, ugly kids overacting outrageously, and massive amounts of stock footage reign, until a guy in a white bunny rabbit costume drives up (is pushed up by obvious stagehands) through the nearly empty amusement park, and gives this clod a ride ... to, the North Pole? I guess. There is repeatedly shown a dog growling and barking angrily at this costume bunny. I was waiting for him to bite the bunny. That would have been a surprising twist.The sleigh then just simply evaporates into fat air..... The End. What the hell is this about? Who thought this was a good idea? And what the hell were they on when they made this barely Christmas movie (aside from the guy in the unwashed Santa suit, there is no mention of Christmas)? It seems like they filmed a short ride through the awful looking amusement park, then padded that with this story of Santa on the beach, but when that still came up short, the padded it out even further with unrelated fairy tale stories, to horrible effect.
Mark Honhorst This is pretty much the "Inception" of God Awful cinema. We have an unknown narrator telling us the story of Santa Claus being stuck on a beach in Florida, who, in turn, tells a group of children a random story about Thumbelina, which is from the viewpoint of ANOTHER narrator, who happens to also play an aging female mole. Confused yet? This movie has a total of three different storytellers, yet it still manages to make absolutely no sense whatsoever. Probably because, from what I can tell, the Santa film and Thumbelina were made at separate times as promotional films for a now long forgotten theme park in Florida. So what we get is a hodgepodge of absolute nonsense involving randy moles, various farm animals being attached to Santa's sleigh,and hippies popping out of flowers. And what about that Ice Cream Bunny? Oh yeah! What we get is a very disturbing man in a filthy rabbit costume riding around in an antique Fire Truck loaded with helpless children with the doomsday alarm blaring out of some unseen loudspeaker. All the while, the rabbit's face remains emotionless and blank, lost in his own sickening thoughts which probably involve children and the dozens of melting ice cream bars he has packed inside various parts of his trousers. (Hey, they said he was an ice cream bunny, and I don't see any ice cream anywhere else, so I'll assume it's inside the costume). Anyway, the bunny comes to Santa's rescue. Some garbled, incoherent dialog seep past his most likely slavering lips, picks up Santa, and leaves the children and the sleigh in the middle of nowhere. I swear, just the sight of the bunny driving the truck through the park nearly made my skin crawl. I just wouldn't give it the satisfaction. So there you have it. . Try eating pizza and watching this movie right before bed. I guarantee the nightmares you have will make more sense than this sorry excuse for cinema.
Mike Vukovich Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny is nothing short of a pristine cinematic masterpiece and a dramatic triumph. The film takes us on an incredible journey as we witness Santa Claus' valiant yet fruitless attempts to free his sleigh from the devastating desert sands as he struggles with the scorching Florida heat and a borderline existential crisis, assisted by a colorful cast of children and wild animals that liven up the experience and bring some much-needed comic relief. Throughout the work, we are presented with themes of man against nature, the juxtaposition of fiction with reality, dramatic irony, and plenty of cues from the greatest works of Shakespeare, Moliere, Dickens, Cervantes, and many other masters. The Ice Cream Bunny is one of the greatest and most deeply-developed characters in all fiction, and deserves much more than the minimal amount of screen time that he was given. With an engaging plot and cinematic mastery, Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny will be remembered by many cinema enthusiasts for years to come.
sinister_prog Oh I've seen a lot of bad movies before this: Monster a Go-Go, Manos, Leonard part 6, even Ben and Arthur. But all those movies had effort put into them to make them bad, a combination of the ropey script, non-existent acting, stupid plots and all-round awfulness. Santa and the Ice-cream Bunny is worse them all of them. And it does this with almost no effort at all. I'd even go as far as saying that if I were to write down all the mistakes in this movie while watching it, the movie would end before I would.Take the basic plot, a short narration that Santa's sleigh is stuck on the beach because his reindeer have left, and a single frame from the movie to illustrate this (eer, a scene of the sleigh on a beach and very little else). Straight away there are unanswered questions:-Why is Santa's sleigh so small? There is no space for any presents. - or the reindeer. -How did the reindeer escape? -What is Santa doing on the beach in the first place? -How did it get trapped? -How can such a tiny amount of sand trap his sleigh? Simply farting on it would blow it away. -Even if/when he does dig it out, how can he get home without any reindeer?All that, dear reader, from mere seconds of the movie. Now just imagine that for the entire duration. That's why I think it's a work of art; I can't think of anything ever that provokes so much thought in the viewer. Submit this movie to the Turner Prize and the judges' heads will explode.This movie hit rock-bottom so fast it left a crater at the bottom of the scale. Watch it, and wake up the next day reassured that no other movie can be this bad.