Dire animated festive fare fails to be enlivened by the vocal contributions of Martin Freeman and Tim Curry
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"Once they were yo-ho-ho-ing; now they'll be boo-hoo-hooing!" They will if you drag them along to this homegrown festive turkey, which conjures up visions of cold stuffing sandwiches a whole month before the traditional hardening of festive arteries has begun. Imagine all the most cliched ideas from Santa Claus – The Movie, Elf and Arthur Christmas mixed up in a bowl of bland digimation, cooked in the oven of utterly perfunctory 3D, sprinkled with a tired time-travelling riff from Doctor Who, and then left (like the proverbial MacArthur Park cake) out in the rain to go soggy and stale, before shipping up on DVD as a crap last-minute 24-hour garage stocking filler.
That Martin Freeman and Tim Curry (both mighty in their own way) should lend their voices to this let-down is depressing enough; that Joan Collins and Ashley Tisdale have been roped in somehow makes it worse. On this evidence, Santa's sadly not worth saving.
Source: http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/dec/01/saving-santa-review
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