Matt Greene Get Santa is a mess. However, despite some questionable character decisions (GO SEE YOUR PAROLE OFFICER!) and the fantasy elements being a bit boring, it's a sincere and often really fun mess. Funny, bright, well-directed and comfortably familiar, it fits in nicely with fantasy-meets-reality family Christmas films like Elf and Santa Clause. Nothing transcendent, but certainly a worthy addition to the holiday canon.

inquizitors-845-455978 Some people take everything so seriously. This is a fun Christmas film that I have witnessed being enjoyed by a large group aged from 4 to 72. It is no classic but is good fun with all the characters to see the good versus bad battle. Just relax with a mince pie and your favourite tipple - or a nice cuppa - and enjoy this harmless festive fun film.A 9-year-old boy Tom finds Santa Claus in his garden shed after Santa crashes his sleigh. Desperate to return to Lapland in time for Christmas, Santa asks Tom and his dad Steve for help. It's just a few days before Christmas, and his reindeer are found running loose through the streets of London.Give it a watch. It is harmless fun. Jim Bradbent is a brilliant Santa and adds to his catalogue of very different roles. Rafe Spall is excellent as the dad released from prison trying to help his young son surrounded by cynical people in all guises. Kit Connor is the 9 year old boy who is the star of the movie and is excellent.

Hopstimop This movie isn't for American audiences. It's not the cookie cutter, shallow, cliché filled Hollywood movie you would expect.It's a European movie altogether and even if it has all the compulsory elements of a Christmas movie, it brings so many fresh ideas to the story, I was amazed.Even the basics are European, like Santa being from Lappland not the North Pole, or even he's called St. Nicolas, not Santa Claus.Don't believe the reviews written by Americans. It's a very well written and executed movie. Very British.I enjoyed this movie very much and I also got a tear in the corner of my eye at the end.

elainehewitt65 The children I took to see this film are in the age range of 4 to 10 years old. They all thoroughly enjoyed it.The story unfolds with Santa crashing his sleigh in Richmond Park, London. He consequently hides in a garden shed whilst his reindeer end up in Battersea Dog's Home. The little boy whose shed Santa occupies finds Santa and then sets out to recover the sleigh along with the reindeer with the help of his father (who takes some convincing that Santa is actually Santa).I personally didn't think it was up there in the top Christmas movies. I recall there was a reference to killing swans which didn't make any sense whatsoever and was completely unrelated to the story. There was some mild violence in there as well which I don't think goes together well with Santa and good will at Christmas. Children will enjoy this on a superficial level but adults who see things a little deeper may be left with a feeling of "what was that all about?"Give me "Elf" any day.