Posted on 11/24/2016 12:19:17 PM PST by heterosupremacist
It’s a hard call which is worse: “Bad Santa 2” or its juvenile fans. By any measure, the movie, and its reception in many quarters, is proof positive that American culture is witnessing a race to the bottom.
When the first “Bad Santa” was released in 2003, I described Santa as a “chain-smoking, drunken, foul-mouthed, suicidal, sexual predator. He is shown soiling himself in Santa’s chair, vomiting in alleys, having sex with a woman bartender in a car, and performing anal sex on a huge woman in a dressing room.”
Nick Schager, writing for The Playlist, notes the “narrative purposelessness” of the film. Similarly, Colin Covert of the Chicago Tribune says “the plot is so muddled it seems to have been stitched together from the dregs of multiple ditched drafts.”
The Hollywood Reporter likes the movie because it is “Raunchy, rude and politically incorrect.” The latter observation, which was made by many reviewers, is factually incorrect: it is politically correct to trash Christian teaching, values, symbols, and holidays. It is politically incorrect to trash Judaism or Islam, which is why it is rarely done.
Juliana Roman of movieweb.com is happy that “Bad Santa 2 is as gloriously raunchy as the original. Bravo to the filmmakers for having the guts to make it just as ribald and patently offensive.” Sorry, Juliana, it takes no guts in Hollywood to offend Christians, especially this time of the year. Once Hollywood makes a movie doing to the LGBTQ community what it does to Christians—it should be released during Gay Pride Month—then Tinseltown can be heralded for its courage.
“‘Bad Santa 2’ is vulgar, nasty and offensive, but it has flawed aspects also.” It would be hard to beat this inane comment, courtesy of Kyle Smith of the New York Post.
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Which is pathetic, because Billy Bob Thornton and Kathy Bates are pretty good actors.
Sad.
Looks like someone has picked up on the “Evil Clown” concept and decided to try to morph it into “Evil Santa,” thereby knocking the legs out of another element of western culture.
First one was funny. I’ll see this one too.
No thanks.
Sequels are rarely as good as the original.
Not surprisingly a movie produced by people who attach no significance to Christmas or it’s traditions, but see it as just another occasion to mock and make a buck.
Oh .....I expected to hate the first Bad Santa. I am guilty of laughing till I cried. It was soooo wrong in so many ways. But I laughed so much.
I expect to be relegated to the scarlet letter section of FR now.
.....Move over Laz......
I will wait till I can see the second one on video.
I saw the first on tv a while ago and wasn’t impressed. Round 2 is just background noise to me.
Bad santa was great looking forward to bad santa too sometimes a movie is just a movie
Not exactly “It’s a Wonderful Life” huh
A christmmas “cat ballou”...
My personal favorite (I watch it once a year) is ‘A Christmas story’...
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwPZDS_8_p9CHaozGUHO6UA
Same here, I never get tired of it.
Yep. One of the all-time funniest movies ever. Over a decade later, I still die laughing when I watch it.
Memorable also for John Ritter's final on-screen performance.
I thought Bad Santa was funny. Tony Cox dressing down Billy Bob’s character was hilarious in the food court scene. I’m also guilty of laughing all through Bad Grandpa too.
Second one? We’ll see. I’ll wait until it’s on Netflix or Redbox.
Me too.
You would probably like “Shakes the Clown”.
Nobody is going to force this guy to see the movie. Indeed, he hasn’t seen it, so how could his “review” have any meaning?
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