Santaman

I really like this take on Santa! He looked and sounded cool.

The boy Shawn was a poor voice actor, but the sister was a bit better.

The story line was mediocre, and there was a couple of flakey spots. The potential is there!

Santa was truly the star of the show.

Not sure what the writers were going for let alone the makers of the movie. You have a demon/zombie like reindeer, an evil elf that wants to destroy the North Pole and end Santa, an evil energy guru that wants to melt the North Pole and destroy Santa, jerky animation and poor lip syncing, making it look more like a Japanese or Chinese movie Dubed in English, multiple plots that don't really go together and the kids got bored within the first 5 minutes. The whole thing comes across and alien, cheap and very weird. Santa kinda hates himself, Christmas is Pointless, and Santa is pretty much hated so he creates Santa-Man in order to change the world. He's a pretty pathetic "superhero" and fails miserably from the start. Only when two kids running away from a bully and stow away on his sleigh, then things start to improve. You have an evil guru that has a goal of causing global warming in order to melt the North Pole to get back at Santa via a NON-Clean Coal-Clean-Coal power plant. Then you have an evil elf with a, well, not sure what the heck it was, but turned Coal into Super-Dirty "Clean Coal" that's 1,000x dirtier that super duper dirty coal.

Had potential but fails miserably. Did they want to have a story regarding making a world a better place by stopping crime, people redeeming themselves, a better environment, belief and faith, there's so many subplots that make for a confusing and boring movie that kids and adults alike will hate. Animation is horrible, voiceover is even worse and the plot/plots are even worse that that.

Save Yourself and your family from watching this horrible vomit of a movie.

Feels like the whole process of the making of this movie was done 97% with AI. In the same fate I'll do the same with this review.

"Santaman" is a colossal disappointment, deserving no more than a 1/10 rating. From start to finish, it feels like a film that was assembled by an AI rather than crafted by human hands. The plot is a disjointed mess, jumping from one uninspired scene to the next with no sense of cohesion or purpose. Characters are one-dimensional, lacking any semblance of depth or development, making it impossible to care about their fates.

The dialogue is the most glaring issue, sounding like it was pulled from a database of generic lines rather than written by someone with a grasp of natural conversation. It's stilted, awkward, and often painfully on-the-nose, stripping away any potential for genuine emotion or engagement.

Visually, "Santaman" is equally uninspired. The special effects are mediocre at best, giving the impression that they were generated by an AI working with outdated software. The cinematography is bland and unimaginative, failing to capture the viewer's interest or enhance the storytelling in any meaningful way.

The film also suffers from a complete lack of originality. It feels like an algorithm analyzed a hundred holiday movies and regurgitated the most overused tropes and clichés without any understanding of what makes those elements work. There's no spark, no creativity, just a mechanical rehashing of tired ideas.

Ultimately, "Santaman" is a soulless, joyless experience that highlights the worst fears about AI-generated content. It misses the mark on every level, from story and character to visuals and dialogue. Watching it is a chore, leaving viewers to wonder if the future of cinema is doomed to be as lifeless and uninspired as this film. 1/10.