Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Bad Santa (The Unrated Version and Director's Cut) [Blu-ray]

I did not realize that Bad Santa had come out on Blu-ray. Which is cool because while I love watching It's a Wonderful Life and other Christmas movies that have a more wholesome subject matter, Bad Santa is a movie that I enjoyed a lot more than I expected to. Which is a good thing in a movie. And it has become one of those movies that I like to watch during the holiday season. Christmas has a dark side to it too and this movie is a great dark comedy.

Bad Santa
(The Unrated Version and Director's Cut)
[Blu-ray]
Bad Santa (The Unrated Version and Director's Cut) [Blu-ray]
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Jeff Shannon sums it up quite well when he said;
Instantly qualifying as a perennial cult favorite, Bad Santa is as nasty as it wants to be, and there's something to be said for comedy without compromise. The Coen brothers conceived the basic idea and served as executive producers, but it's director Terry Zwigoff (Crumb, Ghost World) who brings his unique affinity for losers and outcasts to the twisted tale of Willie T. Stokes (Billy Bob Thornton), a hard-drinking, chain-smoking, foul-mouthed sexaholic safe-cracker who targets a different department store every holiday season, playing Santa while he cases the joint with his dwarf elf-partner Marcus (Tony Cox). With comedic support from Bernie Mac, Lauren Graham, Cloris Leachman, and John Ritter in his final film, Thornton milks the lowbrow laughs with a slovenly lack of sentiment, warming Bad Santa's pickled heart just enough to please a chubby misfit (Brett Kelly, hilariously deadpan) who may or may not be mentally challenged. As dry as an arid martini and blacker than morning-after coffee, Bad Santa is an instant cure for yuletide schmaltz, and if you think this appropriately R-rated comedy is suitable for kids, your parenting skills are no better than Willie's.



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