Small Town Santa (2014)

An action-packed slog

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Being from the area I enjoyed seeing some familiar spots. I enjoyed it as much as any of the Hallmark movies I love.

...that it was ever made at all.Killing time in the afternoon, I turned on this movie in Netflix. I was looking for something light and entertaining, but what I got was the worst acting found anywhere.The script might have been fine, but it's hard to tell with all the campy acting going on throughout the movie. The speech is stilted, the actors are over-emoting both with their actions and their facial expressions, and I think someone else said it best when they said the Santa Claus came off as a perv, rather than a benevolent old man. And it's not just one actor/character, but all of them! This played like a movie filmed in someone's basement or as a college film school project, a bad one!Had it been just one or two of the actors, okay, I can live with that, but for it to be everyone was astonishing. I was thinking throughout the entire movie how bad the director must have been to think this was okay.I gotta say, it's the ex-wife that totally threw me. After being a shrill, screaming, horrific woman who treated the sheriff like crap throughout the movie, calling him awful names at every turn, becomes all sweetness and light as soon as she needs something from him and no one bats an eye.This is a movie that needs to just go away, never to return, and I'm not recommending it for anyone with any sense.

This movie is obviously not a mega budget movie, and it shows on screen not on the acting or the production but in the dialogues, the movie is well done, nice shots, almost flawless editing and overall is OK, but in Christmas movies is not about how big the production is or how famous the actors or even how much money it made, it is all about the message that tries to get across to our kids and families of the world, and this movie does just that. There are flaws in it it is true, but that is what makes it better because unintentionally or not it makes it more real. It touches the deep roots of our childhood those roots that still make us believe he will bring us presents, those roots that still make us share the story with our kids. So don't watch the movie to criticize it because it is not a competition but watch it to enjoy and meditate out its meaning. Watch it with your family simply to enjoy the spirit of Christmas.

Dean Cain, former superman, stars in this mesmerizing train wreck, where the only joy to be had while watching is to make fun of it.You aren't going to recognize anyone else in this movie unless you attended church with or went to school with the group of friends behind the production of this low-budget Christmas movie. But if you're looking for family-friendly, you found it. Only the most puritan of minds would find fault with this well-intended film where every story in the movie gets a happy ending. In fact, the only thing offensive about it is the writing, acting, and production values, which are below the scale of a bad made-for-TV movie. The dialog is laughable, the acting is atrocious, and yet we couldn't turn it off. Santa plays more like a dirty old man than a kindly old elf, and the other cast of one-dimensional characters is on par with an after-school special.Fun fact: look for the plaque on superman's desk that reads "Real heroes don't wear capes."