Rating: C-
Seriously, I wanted to give The Year Without a Santa Claus a D, which is my worst grade, but decided to give them just a little more for their ingenuity. I do like when someone takes the expected and changes it up a bit. In this case, they upgraded and tried to make this popular 1970s cartoon into a more modern story with some 2006 cultural references. I think they changed the basics of the story a bit, too, although I honestly don't remember the original TV special all that much. Santa isn't going to do Christmas; elves Jingle & Jangle try to save the day; Heat Miser and Snow Miser are bickering; everything ends happily ever after. Chris Kattan's character is a high-maintenance kind of publicist/agent for Santa and well, clearly, that wasn't in the original. Overall, although this film had its moments (the Miser Brothers were funny) I just did not like it that much. It was SO boring and I just couldn't get into it. I guess it's sometimes best to just stick with the original.
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