Every year around this time I have two movies I always watch and then review here, and this is one of them.
This oddity from South Of The Border was directed by Rene Cardona and is a very different take on the Santa Claus story. It seems that Santa has children from all over the world working for him and that he lives in a mansion on a cloud.
The devil does not want Christmas to happen so he sends one of his minions named Pitch to destroy Santa and ruin Christmas. Pitch enlists three children to help him and they plot to injure Santa! Meanwhile a little girl named Lupita only wants a doll for Christmas and a little rich boy wants the love of his parents. Santa enlists the aid of Merlin the Magician in fighting Pitch.
This is all very strange and bizarre, but it is aimed at children no matter what we think in this modern age of crap. It's not a bad film as long as you take it in context of pure imagination....but what imagination it is. K. Gordon Murray brought this gem to America and even narrates it at the beginning of the film.
I cannot recommend this enough and hope you will at least give it a watch.
No comments:
Post a Comment