HBO MaxBad Santa (2003)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Viewer Rating
Rating: 7.1
Overview
You'd better watch out - Santa Claus Willie T. Soke is coming to town, and he doesn't care if you've been naughty or nice. Wille's favorite holiday tradition is to fill his sacks with loot lifted from shopping malls across the country. But this year his plot gets derailed by a wisecracking store detective, a sexy bartender, and a kid who's convinced Willie is the real Santa Claus.
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Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
LGBTQ: Neutral
Overview
You'd better watch out - Santa Claus Willie T. Soke is coming to town, and he doesn't care if you've been naughty or nice. Wille's favorite holiday tradition is to fill his sacks with loot lifted from shopping malls across the country. But this year his plot gets derailed by a wisecracking store detective, a sexy bartender, and a kid who's convinced Willie is the real Santa Claus.
Starring Cast
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Analyzing...
Center
Primary
The film's central subject matter of individual redemption and found family, alongside a critique of consumerism, lacks a strong inherent political valence, and its championed solution is personal transformation rather than any explicit political or systemic change.
The movie features visible diversity in its supporting cast, but does not engage in explicit race or gender swaps of traditionally white lead roles. While the main character, a white male, is portrayed negatively, this is attributed to his personal flaws rather than serving as a critique of traditional identities or making DEI themes central to the narrative.
Secondary
The film features a gay character, Marcus, who is a criminal accomplice, and Sue, who is identified as a 'fag hag.' While Marcus is a negative character, his sexuality is incidental to his villainy and not the primary source of his problematic depiction. The LGBTQ+ elements are present but not central to the narrative, neither uplifting nor specifically denigrating queer identity within the film's overall cynical and crude comedic framework.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Bad Santa is an original film with characters created specifically for this movie. There are no pre-existing source materials, historical figures, or prior installments from which characters could have been gender-swapped.
Bad Santa is an original film from 2003, not an adaptation of prior source material or a historical account. All characters were created for this specific movie, meaning there is no pre-existing canonical or historical race to be altered.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
7.1
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
User Ratings
7.0
6.5
Critic Ratings
7.8
7.0
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