Review of Bad Santa (2003) by Steven D — 01 Jun 2012

It was pretty good. IT was nothing like what I expected. What you have here is a very dark comedy, not the kinda bullshit hangover I was expecting. Billy Bob Thorton plays the lead, and is very good. I mean of course we've seen him play a lot of drunks over the years, but this one just seems special.

The script and story were pretty funny and actually had some heart, or more then I was expecting. It was funny, but rarely did I find myself laughing out loud. It's well directed and over all put together fairly well.

The acting and cast is good but I found "the kid" to be really quite annoying. I understand his purpose in the film, but I feel like they should have found someone else. I just didn't like him.

All in all a decent movie. If ya got Netflix then it's worth watching however I dunno how much I would spend to rent it, and I definitely wouldn't buy it.