One of the funniest comedies in recent years, "Bad Santa" benefits hugely from the inputs of Terry Zwigoff and the Coen brothers.
The idea here is simple: take all the tropes of the Christmas family movie (and a couple nods to Chaplin's "The Kid") and pervert them, inserting lots of mean spirited jokes, swearing, sexual innuendos and bitterness. It's the kind of thing "Reindeer Games" aspired too, but Zwigoff's film comes across far better.
8/10 - Filled with funny lines and a great central performance by Billy Bob Thornton, this is the classiest foul mouthed comedy since "The Big Lebowski".
Worth two viewings.
The idea here is simple: take all the tropes of the Christmas family movie (and a couple nods to Chaplin's "The Kid") and pervert them, inserting lots of mean spirited jokes, swearing, sexual innuendos and bitterness. It's the kind of thing "Reindeer Games" aspired too, but Zwigoff's film comes across far better.
8/10 - Filled with funny lines and a great central performance by Billy Bob Thornton, this is the classiest foul mouthed comedy since "The Big Lebowski".
Worth two viewings.