Sean Akizuki's Fantasy Critic

Well it's time for another fun Santa Claus movie.  Well it's time to really look at how this story actually can be pretty messy but at the same time appealing.  It doesn't follow too much from Rankin/Bass' way of writing fiction either.  Now for the plot- it all starts when Claus and Anya are just mere human beings who deliver presents across the viking village.  So I guess life wasn't easy for them and they are quite old, they have no children.  I was thinking that part of the whole beginning manages to make them that they were always doign what they did in that village.  One day while trying to make a delivery and I'd say, Claus was pretty crazy when he was trying to make that delivery across the snowstorm with two reindeer (that will soon join the rest) and two, his wife could have died.  But in the midst of that, they awake in the North Pole where the magic kingdom exists led by the Vendequem who only prefer to be called elves. So what happens n...

Well here's another of those various fiction films.  So it was directed by the same director who did Supergirl and well, I was pretty surprised to find out it was a box office flop and has some scathing reviews yet there is a cult hit following it after that failure.  That I won't be able to decipher why but I think that there is some charm in the film that I really like: Acting quality does matter.  I mean, well this is all fiction but hey, even fantasy films need to have good acting if you want to entertain the audience.  I mean, there is always a certain degree of realism and David Huddleston makes a fairy tale character seemingly real in this film and he's probably better than Edmund Gwen or any other before him or after him who acted the fat guy for me. I really love his acting, makes me want to hug that guy even when I'm all grown up.  I would admit the plot is pretty rushed but David Huddleston really knows how to act as a real jolly old man who love...