I remember being a teen and someone emailing my dad this game around the end of the 90's, it wasn't terrible, it was a tad addictive back when better games still required fairly good video cards... that said jump ahead 10 years almost, yeah there's a gba version I'm ashamed to admit occasionally I'll play but for the most part like the rest of the world I'd forgotten the game. Jump ahead about 7 years now I discover someone made it into a movie around the gba games time frame... I'm left wondering "Why?"u
To put whats wrong with this movie I ask you, Do you remember telephone? The game that was often played in kindergarten where a teacher whispers something in one ear for the message to be in turn whispered into another kids ear to the last kid finally reads out the message. This in turn almost always leads to something major lost in the transmission of the message.
This seems to be the case of the Santa Clause Mythos in this movie. Santa Clause is inexplicably a pirate who steals toys, so that he can secretly throw them overboard hoping they will somehow end up in the hands of orphans. He has a brother who is also a pirate who seems to have an addiction to cheating worse then Dick Dastardly back in the wacky races.
Santa bowls his crew over gold coins for some reason and wins but the parrot reveals that there's been cheating been going on so him and his brother get tossed into the water where they freeze, somehow the end up at the north pole where an elf uses his magic ball to revive them. They then reveal Santa is the chosen one, white beard. Eva then falls in love with an eva gabor look alike when she makes him strudel which he apparently really likes. Then him and his brother get in some real stupid argument drop the magic ball knocking over 12 elves revealing they enjoy being knocked over like pins. Santa starts delivering toys since they enjoy making toys and for 14 hundred years this goes on, finally santa marries ms. clause and asks his brother to move out who in turn goes to rule over the penguins and plot against his brother... I could go on but i think I made my point at how ridiculous this adaption is.
My biggest gripe with this movie is at about 80 minutes, bowling only makes up possibly an 8th of the film if that much and the bowling scenes are all pretty much the same, Santa bowls, Dingle Bowls, Dingle is revealed to have cheated after he wins. The victory is awarded to santa. Thinking about the plot actually can hurt your head so I wouldn't recommend it.
To put whats wrong with this movie I ask you, Do you remember telephone? The game that was often played in kindergarten where a teacher whispers something in one ear for the message to be in turn whispered into another kids ear to the last kid finally reads out the message. This in turn almost always leads to something major lost in the transmission of the message.
This seems to be the case of the Santa Clause Mythos in this movie. Santa Clause is inexplicably a pirate who steals toys, so that he can secretly throw them overboard hoping they will somehow end up in the hands of orphans. He has a brother who is also a pirate who seems to have an addiction to cheating worse then Dick Dastardly back in the wacky races.
Santa bowls his crew over gold coins for some reason and wins but the parrot reveals that there's been cheating been going on so him and his brother get tossed into the water where they freeze, somehow the end up at the north pole where an elf uses his magic ball to revive them. They then reveal Santa is the chosen one, white beard. Eva then falls in love with an eva gabor look alike when she makes him strudel which he apparently really likes. Then him and his brother get in some real stupid argument drop the magic ball knocking over 12 elves revealing they enjoy being knocked over like pins. Santa starts delivering toys since they enjoy making toys and for 14 hundred years this goes on, finally santa marries ms. clause and asks his brother to move out who in turn goes to rule over the penguins and plot against his brother... I could go on but i think I made my point at how ridiculous this adaption is.
My biggest gripe with this movie is at about 80 minutes, bowling only makes up possibly an 8th of the film if that much and the bowling scenes are all pretty much the same, Santa bowls, Dingle Bowls, Dingle is revealed to have cheated after he wins. The victory is awarded to santa. Thinking about the plot actually can hurt your head so I wouldn't recommend it.