Ddey65 If you told me this movie existed before December 2014, I might find it hard to believe you. I say "might," because I can look it up on IMDb like anybody else. Regardless, it was a thread on an IMDb message board over a new Rifftrax version of the 1959 Mexican movie about Santa Claus where I learned of this movie. Much to my stunned and almost terrified surprise, I realized it does exist. So after the 2014 Christmas season, and a few YouTube clips of Mike Nelson, Bill Corbett and Kevin Murphy making fun of this movie, I finally got a DVD of this, and let's just say that I don't think I could've survived without them. This movie is living proof that there were far worse things on screen in 1972 than news footage of the Vietnam War, the troubles in British-Occupied Ireland and the Palestinian terrorist attack at the Munich Olympics.You don't even have to see the movie to know the story. Santa gets his sleigh stuck on the beaches of South Florida, and calls kids from the region to help him out, including of all people Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. They try to pull him out with various animals, and apparently one guy in a gorilla suit. Suddenly Santa decides to tell them the story of Thumbelina, and the movie is cut to that 1970 version of Thumbelina, which was also produced by Pirate's World. And both movies are narrated by some old lady, who in the Thumbelina movie was the voice of a old female mole. The girl playing Thumbelina is very pretty, but she can't sing to save her life. Nevertheless, she goes through the expected routine and lives happily ever after. But even that doesn't do squat to get Santa back to his usual Christmastime deliveries. Then suddenly off in the distance, the "Ice Cream Bunny" arrives on a 1920's Ford Model T fire truck and Christmas is saved... except for the audience, and the kids who were in this movie. For them, Christmas is ruined.Oh, but wait: There's ANOTHER version of this, and it's just as horrid. Instead of telling the story of Thumbelina, you've got Santa telling the story of Jack and the Beanstalk, and Jack looks a lot like Adam Lamberg from "Lizzie McGuire." The Giant's songs are equally intolerable as well. This story was made in the same year, and yes, this was made at Pirate's World too. This movie makes that K. Gordon Murray movie about Santa Claus look like the great Rankin-Bass Christmas specials of the 1960's, and that movie made "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians" look like one of those Rankin-Bass masterpieces. The movie is so whacked out and stupid, that if any kid who saw it went to a therapist later on in life and mentioned it's existence, the shrink would have them committed to the nearest mental institution. In fact, if any psychiatrists are reading this and they had patients who mentioned seeing this movie, they should get those patients released from the funny farms right away.Believe it or not, I was also going to mention a GOOD movie that added one story to another in order to extend it, but I changed my mind. This movie is so bad, it's guaranteed to make even the most devoted, clean-cut, God-fearing Fundamentalist Christians say to themselves "What the f*ck did I just watch?" Finally, I don't think any review can be written without asking the question of why THIS bunny is specifically "the ice cream bunny." Did he hand out ice cream at Pirate's World? Was he some corporate mascot for a local dairy company that sold ice cream and sponsored a portion of the park? Nobody knows, except the former owners of that amusement park, and they're probably too embarrassed to be associated with the place, let alone answer any questions about it.

ofpsmith How does this film in any way seem to anybody real? Santa Claus is stuck in Florida and the reindeer left him at some beach. He uses his Shining ability I guess to call kids over to help him. When it doesn't work (He says that a lot) he for some god-knows-why reason starts telling the story about Thumbelina. Or the story of some girl who goes to listen to it at pirates world. The Thumbelina story made no sense whatsoever (That said neither did the normal story) but this still raises a question. How in any way does this help the kids get the sleigh out of the sand? The biggest plot hole is when the ice cream bunny (Who has nothing to do with ice cream by the way drives in a Ford Model T fire truck and picks Santa up out of his sleigh. But wait it get's worse. The sleigh just disappears. Yes I wrote that. It just disappears. Why didn't he just do that before?! He had to waste an hour and a half of my life with the dumbest story imaginable! Do not see this film ever! If you do you'll just find yourself asking "What the heck am I watching?"

adampowell65 Allow me to summarize the movie.Santa's sleigh ends up on a beach in Florida, buried in an inch of sand. Santa summons a bunch of kids and they basically just go along with it and get a bunch of animals (not all at once, hello?) to pull the sleigh free, including a horse, a cow, a sheep, and even a guy in a gorilla suit. Santa, meanwhile, fans himself and mumbles "oh it's hot ooh golly oh my gosh i have never been so hot in my life oh ho ho ho oh gosh oh my golly".Santa takes a break from sweating to tell the kids the story of Thumbelina, and then they pretty much just play this older film called 'Thumbelina', made by the same guy who made this. It's meant to "inspire" the kids or whatever, but it never gets referenced after it's finished, the kids don't seem to take much from it, it's unbelievably bland and forgettable, it has nothing to do with Christmas or Santa or anything to ever happen in the history of mankind, AND (possibly the worst of all), it's actually LONGER than the segment with Santa Claus. It's literally a lazy way of padding the film out to over an hour.It's like, if they made a new Harry Potter movie, and they didn't have enough for a whole film, so they had Harry experience a flashback, then they just play one of the previous films, then that ends, then we get ten minutes of nothing happening, then it ends. That is EXACTLY what this is.Anyway, when the Thumbelina segment is over, the kids go back to running around looking for help, and Santa goes back to "oh my golly it is hot oh my gosh look at that sun glaring down oh ho ho ho i have never been so hot in my life ho ho ho". The kids return with the Ice Cream Bunny.I'm dead f*cking serious.The "Ice Cream Bunny" drives a fire truck (what, you were expecting a fire truck? You're an idiot!) and Santa climbs onto the back of the truck and they drive off into the woods and that's the last we ever see of them. Then the sleigh vanishes into thin air, leaving the audience wondering, say, why was this such an issue if the sleigh could vanish at will? Where does Santa go; is he supposed to deliver presents all around the world on the fire truck now, or what? Who the hell is the Ice Cream Bunny? Was he supposed to be the Easter Bunny? There's no mention of ice cream in the film, he's literally just a guy in a generic, creepy white rabbit costume that never speaks.Also, the Thumbelina segment is incredibly weak. Terrible acting, slow and tedious dialog and pacing, and the costumes and visuals make me feel like I'm in a bad fever dream. Seriously, is it just me, or are those moles nightmare fuel? So, here's my overall summation: Go see it. I know. I know, I just bashed it and criticized it, but it's actually fascinating. I don't know why on earth it was made, I don't know what the people behind it were thinking, I don't know what the hell is going on here. But, I'll be honest, it's oddly hilarious that way.I'm pretty sure the whole thing is on YouTube for free, which is probably the best way to look for it because I strongly doubt you can still get your hands on a VHS copy of this thing anymore.Also, you should check out the RiffTrax commentary on it; it's even funnier than this. This film is hypnotically terrible, with appalling acting, questionable writing, embarrassing effects, and an overall strange, unsettling, somewhat creepy vibe. You absolutely need to see it.Merry Christmas.

lymeddows On all aspects, this movie is immensely horrible. It's sloppy, as if nobody in the entire production cared as long as the kiddies paid to see it. The plot is mediocre, and at times absurd - there is even a separate film inside the film.But if you love cult movies (Plan 9 From Outer Space, anyone?) you will absolutely find this hilarious.Poor old St. Nick got his sleigh stuck in some inch-deep sand just before Christmas. He needs help from children, who supply their farm animals (including a man in a gorilla suit!) to help Santa Claus. Santa gives up, and tells the children a story....Santa uses his words so colourfully we actually see "Thumbelina"! This is the part to be ignored, as it is painfully boring.The film resumes (after Santa's story includes credits!!) with a huge plot twist! The acting is terrible. Santa's costume (Obviously a fake beard) does not even try to convince us - much like the film. Reindeer are seen in the north pole without any snow. The Ice Cream Bunny's relation to Ice Cream is never mentioned, as if the screenwriter wanted to leave it to our imaginations. There is also singing from the kids' whiny little voices, and kazoos! I laughed, I yawned, I wondered "Why am I even watching this?" at points. It is a complete waste of time, but entertaining also. It's fun to point out all the mistakes and plot holes, and the "visual effects". Don't even try to take this film seriously.