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Title: One Joke Movie.
Review: Original premise with lots of funny potential, but the screenwriters dropped the ball in a big way, relying on "one joke" instead of developing a compelling story with characters that matter. In other words, they figured a foulmouthed, drunk Santa with urinary incontinence who hates children, has sex with women that have Santa fetishes and also happens to be a thief was enough to fill two hours of film time. Nope. When you see Santa drunk and vomiting in an alley the first time, it's so jarring and unusual that, yes, it's (kind of) funny, but after two hours of the same joke with selfish, mean-spirited characters you don't like? Time to walk out of the theatre and sneak into another, funnier movie.
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