** Santa Con

Flavorlab, Hartbreak Films, Synthetic Cinema International,

Barry Watson, Melissa Joan Hart, Jaleel White, John Ratzenberger, Wendy Williams, Alimi Ballard


Nick DeMarco (Barry Watson) is just out of jail and looking for a job. His sister (Melissa Joan Hart) is helping him by setting up with a job as the Santa at the local mall, but when Nick promises a little boy that he will bring his father home for Christmas, Nick decides he must find the family involved and use every trick in the book to get them back together to fulfill Santa’s promise. But when it comes time for Dad to come back home, Nick is not so sure he wants to complete his assignment anymore.

This is one of those group of “bad guy has a change of heart, but can’t help himself” stories. Mellisa Joan Hart is all over this project, but her role in the movie is not real big. But she’s really busy producing and directing this Lifetime film. She did a decent job, but I was not really blown away by the acting in this film Nick was a bit too flippant and came off as a jack ass most of the time. When it comes time for him to be a good guy, he just didn’t have the chops to make us believe him fully. Most of the other characters are pretty one dimensional and not very interesting. The absurd reason Nick uses to hang around the house of this single Mom and her little boy is so far fetched that I wanted to call the plot police to haul him back to jail. True his lies roll off the tongue very smoothly, I don’t there there is a desperate housewife anywhere on the planet that would buy any of his crap. It is certainly not a horrible movie by any means, but I was so put off by the flaws in the story and the storytelling that it just didn’t move me much.

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Reel FX Creative Studios, Smokewood Entertainment Group

Jordana Beatty, Heather Graham, Parris Mosteller, Preston Bailey, Kristoffer Ryan Winters, Garrett Ryan, Jaleel White, Ashley Boettcher, Taylar Hender, Cameron Boyce, Jenica Bergere, Janet Varney

Based on the Judy Moody books by Megan McDonald, Judy (Jordana Beatty) is making plans for an awesome summer. She’s setup a Summer Adventure chart that add points for awesome things like riding the awesome Scream Monster (bonus points for no hands) and such. But her friends have their own things to do, leaving Judy with her brother Stink who’s spending his summer searching for Bigfoot. So Judy does her best to have an awesome summer, but everything she tries turns out bad for her, and zero points. But when Aunt Opal (Heather Graham) comes to babysit them, she is a no holds bar, free spirit, and always up for fun! With Aunt Opal’s help, the summer may not turn out so awful after all.

This is definitely a kids film. Unlike some others, there’s not a lot for adults here. Generally though, the pre-teen crowd ought to just love this film. I found it mildly entertaining, but rate it highly because I think it is great fun for the intended audience. They really did a good job bringing these characters to life, and like Ramona and Beezus, this film will resonate with the younger kids. IT’s well done, and does have a sense of fun and adventure (and disappointment) that is fun to watch. I highly recommend this for your kids, especially girls, and I know they’ll love it if they haven’t already seen it.

If you don’t have kids to watch this with, then it might not be much fun to try to watch it as a grown up, as I doubt we’ll catch the humor that the kids do. But for the younger viewers, this is a must see.

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