Badder Santa (Unrated Widescreen Edition)

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Summary: Excellent
Review: This movie is a bit on the vulgar side, but if you can look past that, there is an underlying wit to it that will leave you in stitches.

Best Billy Bob movie yet. He was perfect for the role.

Rating:
Summary: breath of fresh air
Review: To be sure, there is hardly anything refreshing about Bad Santa. Or, of redeeming value for that matter. Directed by new-comer Terry Zwigoff, it the foulest - and funniest - Christmas movie I have seen. Bad Santa is about Willie T. Stokes, Billy Bob Thorton, a self-loathing, sex-crazed, pathetic excuse of a man, who drinks alcohol incessantly. As a means of supporting himself financially, Willie has made a ritual of getting himself employed each year as Santa by department stores, and robbing the store when he gets an opportunity. To assist in his exploits, he brings along a midget by the name of Marcus, Tony Cox, who is actually the saner of the two. At any rate, a store manager, the late John Ritter, becomes suspicious of Willie and asks his security guard, Bernie Mac, to find something for which he could use as a reason, or an excuse, to get rid of Willie. To evade what Willie believes are police going through his apartment - it is actually Bernie Mac's character - he finds a place to stay at a home of a naïve, overly-trusting third grade student, who is "cared for" only by his "grandma", an even more clueless character in this movie. And, without revealing much else of the plot, from this point on Willie, after being inundated with the kid's seemingly pathological optimism, will befriend him and will "turn a corner" in his life. Well, not exactly. Indeed, Bad Santa even makes a mockery of the conventions of happy endings of Christmas movies. This is definitely not a movie for everyone; Bad Santa contains adult language and explicit sexual humor. But, if you don't mind seeing something different from the ordinary this holiday season, Bad Santa can prove a guilty pleasure.