1. StanB.

   10

   Great holiday movie. The scrooges who are looking for another "It's a Wonderful Life" need to look elsewhere.

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2. RebeccaP.

   8

   I loved this movie! It was predictable, but really gave out a good meaning of Christmas! I watched this with my 10 year old daughter and she was laughing the whole time! I did not think it was that funny, but she sure did! Bring your children to this, and enjoy a heart warming movie! Anyone who disliked this story that was there opinion, but this is mine! I know you will all have different opinions, but the best thing i look for while watching a movie with my family, is seeing my children happy! that is what Christmas is all about! My son who is 14 said it was good! I was happy to hear that cause since he is a teenager, he doesn't like going any where with us, but we all personally enjoyed it!… Expand

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3. ChadS.

   7

   When will it occur to Wanda(Rachel Weisz) that she's dating a man who is eternal, like a vampire? According to the narrator of the origin story, the Claus family stopped aging, and if the Santa Claus myth came of age during the nineteenth century, that makes Fred at least two centuries old. Shackled by the need to deliver a "family-friendly" movie, "Fred Claus" conceals the nefarious side of Nick(Paul Giamatti), who is a vampire in the business sense of the word(sucking the blood of the working class; the elves), and is probably having an affair with Charlene(Elizabeth Banks). When the two brothers engage in a tussle, you'll wish it was fisticuffs, and that edgy actors like Vince Vaughn and Giamatti had the freedom to hurl some expletives instead of snowballs at each other. Santa's toy factory and village is a forced labor camp. "Here comes Santa Claus, here comes Santa Claus," as the song goes, sounds like a veiled threat. Santa instructs his DJ(Ludacris) to play this song repeatedly because it's used as a form of mind control. Against their will, the elves need to meet their yearly quota. In the Nazi labour camps, women were employed to organize the Jewish children. In this light, take a closer look at Charlene and her control over the "little people"("midget" is a slur, I'm told). Actually, "Fred.… Expand

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4. MattD

   4

   I enjoyed this slightly more than I expected, but overall this is exactly what I feared - "Elf" with less heart and less humor.

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