richard.fuller1 I've learned the best way to enjoy my niche of movies and TV shows is to let go of my loyalties, or broaden my expectations.So the Spiderman movies don't have Peter Parker paired up with Gwen STacy first. So they retell the origin to include Mary Jane Watson right from the start.I liked the movies.So Victor Von Doom wasn't along with the Fantastic Four when they gained their powers in the comic book.Enjoy the movie.Smallville is yet another good example. So Lana isn't a redhead, so Pete Ross was African-American.Clark met Lois for the first time in Metropolis, not Smallville.The show is fun.Essentially, this is what we must do with Year Without St. Nick, '06.The same way we must contend with the endless remakes of Miracle on 34th Street, and likewise, the remake of It's A Wonderful Life, called It Happened One Christmas with Marlo Thomas, Wayne Rogers and Cloris Leachman as the angel (Thomas was Mary Bailey, Rogers was George Hatch).Apparently I did watch Year Without, '06, at least once, cuz I recorded it and took out the commercials, but for the life of me I don't recall much of what was changed.Santa now does much of what Mrs. Claus did in the original (deals with the miser bros, meets Mother Nature and journeys with the elves), but Mrs. Claus this time must contend with the strangely added Chris Kattan stuff.The added fluff isn't fun. Even stranger is reading over the posts and how much everyone seems to enjoy the miser dancers more than anything else.Watch the movie with a grain of salt. Tell yourself it is a Bizarro world version, and imagine the Bizarro families gathered around the Bizarro TV and chuckling at their family Christmas classic, saying how much they hate it, meaning they like it.Headache yet? Well, you'll get that anyway when you watch this thing, so might as well go bizarro.

randmlyperfctgrl I looked forward to seeing the original TYWASC every year since the first time I saw it. When I found the newer version, I thought it would be kind of fun to watch. I was disappointed that they changed the original so much. The only good part of the new movie would be the heat miser/snow miser parts. I thought the heat miser/snow miser song was a little better in this one because there was more going on. I was disappointed with the fact that the movie was about a corporation and not based on the original more. But luckily the actors cast for heat miser and snow miser made up for most of the points. My advice is that if you're going to remake a holiday classic that was as great as TYWASC, you might want to consider basing it off the original!

erslade It's too bad that this couldn't have been a year without "The Year Without a Santa Claus" remake.I'll have a blue Christmas (since I've seen you.) This belongs on the Island of Misfit Remakes. Where's the Burgermeister when you need something burned? Rankin/Bass are probably spinning like the original Snow Miser after this. I let my six-year-old stay up for this...how do I justify letting him stay up past his bedtime for a waste of two hours of his young life. Whoever was approached with this idea should have told the instigator to put one foot in front of the other and walk right out the door.

Nakita Brown Yes, I gave this a 2. I wasn't able to pay attention to the whole thing, so I wanted to be fair.1) Was the dubbing SUPPOSED to be off during the film? If you have ever watched a kung-fu movie, then you have some idea of what the dubbing was like. In the beginning of the movie, the dubbing was twice as bad. The voice over work was TERRIBLE. I think film students could have done better after they've partied all night.2) The special effects were TERRIBLE. I swear, I could see wrinkles in a few of the back drops. The effects seemed to be very outdated. The elves didn't really have pointy ears either.3) Skimpy costumes. This was supposed to be a movie for kids, right? Well, black leather and bikinis don't really fit in a Christmas movie, I'm sorry. I would say it had no magic at all.The TV guide review said that this movie didn't capture the magic of the original. I would say it had no magic. I could go on, but I keep twitching when I think of the movie. It was very slow, and unwatchable. Watch it if you must, but it's not really so bad it's funny. It's just plain bad.