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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Santa With Amnesia - Fun Story, November 13, 2001
This is the type of film that is fun to put on when your spirits need to be lifted and want to bring a smile to your face. It does both of these in great fashion.
Santa is out riding in his sleigh, hits some turbulence and falls to earth. He lands on the car of a TV reporter who is in need of a Christmas story for his newscast, and loses his memory. This reporter had long ago lost his ability to believe in Santa. Of course the viewer must suspend reality and accept the situation to fully enjoy the results of this story. Someone looking only for a funny film will be disappointed as it is not played strictly for laughs. Leslie Neilsen has played a real Santa before (All I Want For Christmas) and does a great job here as a befuddled person trying to remember who he really is. Again, someone expecting an over the top comic performance will not be amused, but this is meant as a FAMILY film and really succeedes.
Of course, being a Christmas story, the reporter regains his faith in Santa and in himself and, just in time, Santa regains his memory. Even Scrooge would know this was going to happen.
This began as a TV movie on the Sunday Night Disney program last Christmas. I'd taped it then and have watched it a number of times since. Now it is great to have it on DVD without commercials.
If you are one of those people who thinks anyone with Merry Christmas on his lips should be buried with a stake of holly through his heart (sorry Mr. Dickens), don't watch this film, but for anyone looking for a nice, smile involking 88 minutes of Christmas fantasy, get this DVD.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The funniest movie since Encino Man!!!, February 17, 2003
Well, its that time of the year again. The time to max out your credit cards on uselss items your children will probably lose or forget about in three days. The time to hang up lights around the house only to find the bulbs don't work. More importantly, however, it is also the time of year to bring out the christmas movie collection such as the Charlie Brown Christmas Special, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, and lets not forget, Home Alone. Sure, these movies are great, but we see them year after year, repeated non-stop on TV stations such as TBS and FOX. But I'm here to give you some good news. A new breed of Christmas movie is here, and it comes in the name of Santa Who? It stars the wacky, yet lovable Lelie Neilsen who is in his best form since Naked Gun 33 1/3. It is also directed by the incomperable Chad Hoffman who is, in my mind, one day going to be the next Stanley Kubrick. The way he adds the slide whistle noise into Santa Who in order to convey people slipping on ice, or forgeting something they once had (hint, hint...Santa Whaaaa?)just boggles my mind. And let me not forget to mention the cinematography. If you thought a TV movie about Santa Claus losing his memory couldn't have beautiful setting, lighting and mood...let this movie show you the light (no pun intended...[slide whistle])
This movie is the funniest film since Encino Man, starring Pauly Shore, Brendon Fraser, and Sean Astin. If you haven't seen that film, i strongly urge you to see it as well. At this point in time, Santa Who? might be passed off as just another terrible movie quickly put together by television networks to rejuvinate the Christmas Spirit. I cannot tell you enough, it is not. The story is actually quite entertaining and kids will laugh time after time at the wacky sounds and slide whistles. So instead of going to the store to rent the usual christmas movie, try something new and rent Santa Who?
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Amusing Twist On Santa's Story With A Perfectly Cast Leslie Nielsen, February 28, 2006
For those who like myself just adore Leslie Nielsen's wacky roles in "The Naked Gun" series of films, this delightful little Christmas television movie is essential viewing. A story about Santa losing his memory of just who he is just prior to the main part of the Christmas season possibly doesn't promise much however in the most capable hands of Leslie Nielsen, and with excellent support from the underrated Steve Eckholdt as cynical newsman Peter Albright, the opposite is definately the case. What we get in "Santa Who?", is a delightfully funny and at times very touching account of not just one but actually two men's search to try and find out just who they actually are. Both men's search for an identity resulting from very different circumstances; ie Santa as a result of an accident while out driving his sleigh, and Peter, due to a lifetime devoid of love and caring from anyone, becomes a mutually enriching journey for them creating a touching bond between the two men who normally are as different as night and day but who through the chain of events that unfold become better people for the experience.
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