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This is the funniest holiday movie ever! I thought that the cast did an excellent job. My favorite part of the movie was when WIlly, Marcus, and Therman (the kid) were boxing. I thought it was really hilarious when Therman kicked Marcus in the...
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This is the funniest holiday movie ever! I thought that the cast did an excellent job. My favorite part of the movie was when WIlly, Marcus, and Therman (the kid) were boxing. I thought it was really hilarious when Therman kicked Marcus in the crotch :). I like Billy Bob Thornton, I think that he's really funny, and he's in alot of these new comedies. Give this movie a try, and trust me, you will LOVE IT!!!!

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Posted aug 23, 2008 6:25 am pt

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When your eye catches a film like this, you think that its another stupid film. But when i saw it...Billy Bob Thorton, ladies and gentlemen. The cast is FANTASTIC!

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Posted jan 2, 2008 12:33 am pt

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Probably the funniest movie BEFORE The Simpson's Movie.
Watching this drunk Santa swear at kids and wet himself is surprisingly quite entertaining.
My favourite scene was when the kid asked him the name of all the reindeers, and he...
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Probably the funniest movie BEFORE The Simpson's Movie.
Watching this drunk Santa swear at kids and wet himself is surprisingly quite entertaining.
My favourite scene was when the kid asked him the name of all the reindeers, and he started naming the seven dwarves. lol.
A lot of swearing, but fine comedy to overlook that. A great movie.

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Posted aug 1, 2007 9:28 pm pt

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Hilarious movie, it doesn't stick with what a Christmas movie is all about, although it does have it's message. It's a funny movie, it's not politically correct to have a Santa do all of these things, which is what makes it funny.

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Posted mar 7, 2007 5:13 am pt

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"Bad Santa" was a pretty funny movie starring Billy Bob Thorton, Lauren Graham and Bernie Mac. Each of these was quite funny, especially Billy Bob in his Santa Claus outfit. I enjoyed this comedy because it was different than any other...
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"Bad Santa" was a pretty funny movie starring Billy Bob Thorton, Lauren Graham and Bernie Mac. Each of these was quite funny, especially Billy Bob in his Santa Claus outfit. I enjoyed this comedy because it was different than any other "Christmas" movie that is out there.

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Posted mar 3, 2007 8:17 am pt

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Good because it's very different that what you normally see in a movie. I think the movie was looking like "School Of Rock," but it was much better and funnier. It's not a movie that everyone will like of want to watch and some children...
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Good because it's very different that what you normally see in a movie. I think the movie was looking like "School Of Rock," but it was much better and funnier. It's not a movie that everyone will like of want to watch and some children should really not see this. But it's a good movie!

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Posted feb 11, 2007 5:16 am pt

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this movie one of the funniest ive seen. freakin amazing!! woot!

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Posted jan 24, 2007 11:58 am pt

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Unlike many Santa films, this movie has not the typical story line of brining happiness to someone by all means possible, or getting a gift, or things alike. This movie is about a pair of thieves who always manage to fool every market they are on...
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Unlike many Santa films, this movie has not the typical story line of brining happiness to someone by all means possible, or getting a gift, or things alike. This movie is about a pair of thieves who always manage to fool every market they are on in order to steal the money from there. The Bad Santa eventually finds a kid that he hates apparently, but that he slowly cares about. This movie is different from any Christmas movie I have seen, that is why I like it

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Posted jan 5, 2007 5:36 pm pt

• [+] The Onion (A.V. Club)
  
  90
  Much like "School Of Rock," Bad Santa salvages a tired, paint-by-numbers formula by resisting it every step of the way, stubbornly refusing to stop its juvenile fun until the last possible moment.

  by Scott Tobias | Read Full Review »
• [+] Dallas Observer
  
  90
  As surreal as it is obscene, as clever as it is crude. It plays like some raw offspring of underground comix and the comedies of the 1920s.

  by Robert Wilonsky | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
  90
  The movie is -- how can I say this? -- funny as hell. It's like an old Mad magazine "Scenes We'd Like to See" put together by someone on crystal meth, with a vicious streak, an existentialist streak and no mercy anywhere in his soul and only the tiniest flinch at the end, which is probably, sigh, the best way to end.

  by Stephen Hunter | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
  90
  Suddenly, you're looking at life in his (Thornton's) jaundiced way and laughing with a sense of vicarious liberation, even when he says the most outrageous things -- to children, no less. And I daresay you can still recover your holiday spirit when you're through laughing.

  by Desson Thomson | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
  90
  Suddenly, you're looking at life in his (Thornton's) jaundiced way and laughing with a sense of vicarious liberation, even when he says the most outrageous things -- to children, no less. And I daresay you can still recover your holiday spirit when you're through laughing.

  by Desson Thomson | Read Full Review »
• [+] Salon.com
  
  90
  But Bad Santa does feature one last turn from the late John Ritter as a twittery department-store manager (his name, Mr. Chipeska, is a stroke of brilliance that I still can't quite put my finger on).

  by Stephanie Zacharek | Read Full Review »
• [+] USA Today
  
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  This is a filmmaker who instinctively knows that a shot of Santa sitting at a bar as Ricky Nelson sings Jingle Bells will be no-frills funny.

  by Mike Clark | Read Full Review »
• [+] Baltimore Sun
  
  88
  Gloriously funky in the good old meaning of the term. Its vulgarity may be offensive, but it's also pungent and real, and it fuels some ferocious humor.

  by Michael Sragow | Read Full Review »
• [+] Miami Herald
  
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  Won't appeal to everyone, of course, particularly those who blush easily. And parents who take children to see it deserve to have their heads examined. But for those who don't mind a little bile in their eggnog, it's the perfect antidote to all that prefab Christmas cheer.

  by Rene Rodriguez | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Sun-Times
  
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  A demented, twisted, unreasonably funny work of comic kamikaze style, starring Billy Bob Thornton as Santa in a performance that's defiantly uncouth.

  by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Tribune
  
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  The foulest holiday movie I've ever seen -- and the funniest.

  by Mark Caro | Read Full Review »
• [+] Portland Oregonian
  
  83
  It's a film for those people -- and they are legion -- who recoil in horror from the very notion of Christmas cheer. If you're in that crowd, and you know who you are, you'll love it.

  by Shawn Levy | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Magazine
  
  80
  My kind of Christmas movie--profane, subversive, and swarming with scuzzballs.

  by Peter Rainer | Read Full Review »
• [+] Time
  
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  Not for everyone. The plot is full of holes, and its language is worse than it has to be. But it has some swell supporting performances and a lot of vulgar inventiveness, and best of all, it plugs into -- and electrifies -- the mostly unacknowledged grimness that lies just beneath our holiday cheer.

  by Richard Schickel | Read Full Review »
• [+] Newsweek
  
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  Zwigoff doesn't hype up the gags, and his deliberately deadpan style gives even farfetched jokes an edge of reality.

  by David Ansen | Read Full Review »