The News Bot
08-12-2007, 11:40 PM
Reviewed by Chris McEneany
Well, I actually enjoyed Fred Claus more than I expected to. It doesn’t add much to the genre, that is true – well, apart from that origins-style prologue – but in the over-crowded field of festive tomfoolery, this is perhaps a little more likeable, courtesy of Vaughn’s blunt-faced charisma, Giamatti’s over-the-hill, back-to-the-wall Santa and the slightly unusual slant that Fogelman’s script takes. Thus the ubiquitous sack-load of Crimbo-cliches don’t feel half as patronising as usual.
So, considering this is the season to be jolly and the annual Yuletide flicks are once again upon us, Fred Claus is an entertaining enough excursion – providing, of course, that you’re into this sort of thing in the first place. And if you’re not … well, bah, humbug, then!
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Well, I actually enjoyed Fred Claus more than I expected to. It doesn’t add much to the genre, that is true – well, apart from that origins-style prologue – but in the over-crowded field of festive tomfoolery, this is perhaps a little more likeable, courtesy of Vaughn’s blunt-faced charisma, Giamatti’s over-the-hill, back-to-the-wall Santa and the slightly unusual slant that Fogelman’s script takes. Thus the ubiquitous sack-load of Crimbo-cliches don’t feel half as patronising as usual.
So, considering this is the season to be jolly and the annual Yuletide flicks are once again upon us, Fred Claus is an entertaining enough excursion – providing, of course, that you’re into this sort of thing in the first place. And if you’re not … well, bah, humbug, then!
Read the full review... (http://www.avplay.com/index.php?showreview=9130)