What a terrible film.
I can see that people rank it highly, and that it is for some a memorable film from their childhood, but to me this was a cheap and very very funny mess.
Eric Lloyd of 'The Santa Clause' franchise fame is put through his paces, but lacks the comic chops to be able to pull this off, and the less said about the performances from the other humans in the cast the better.
I know this isn't meant to be anything more than silly kiddie stuff, but there's a limit to that bracket, and this film just ends up being very silly, very unimaginative, and ultimately, a bit of a waste of time.
I can see that people rank it highly, and that it is for some a memorable film from their childhood, but to me this was a cheap and very very funny mess.
Eric Lloyd of 'The Santa Clause' franchise fame is put through his paces, but lacks the comic chops to be able to pull this off, and the less said about the performances from the other humans in the cast the better.
I know this isn't meant to be anything more than silly kiddie stuff, but there's a limit to that bracket, and this film just ends up being very silly, very unimaginative, and ultimately, a bit of a waste of time.