Dear Santa (Paramount Plus)- Jack Black Is Trapped In An Awful Farrelly Brothers Movie

Quick Take: Another dismal holiday movie. It is like Hollywood is doing a drive by on your home with some coal. Duck and cover. Jack Black reteamed with The Farrelly Brothers (they don’t both direct, but both worked on the film), for a high concept Christmas movie with an identity crisis. Dear Santa would have been better served embracing the R-rated stylings of the old Farrelly Brothers (or at least a solid PG-13), but this leans way too much into the family lane for what it is.

A kid writes a letter to Santa, only he’s really bad at spelling, so he writes to Satan, and suddenly a demon shows up at Christmas for him and grants three wishes. the movie never really tries to make it make sense, and is constantly roping in plot points that it does very little with. For example, the main kid used to have a brother. You would think that would play a bigger part, but it plays a minimal part in an as needed basis. Black should be funnier, but he’s stuck playing an inherently evil character in a kids movie. Bad Santa was R, Dear Santa should have taken a page from that book.there’s no point in pandering to any audience if the movie isn’t good, and I’m surprised the Farrelly Brothers thought this was funny. Did they make There’s Something About Mary, Dumb and Dumber, and Kingpin by accident? Where were those guys? Next Christmas, I’m asking Santa to give them coal in their stockings. For more, check out my video.