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Dear Santa Trailer

Let this be a lesson. Spelling is very important, kids.

Dear Santa stars Jack Black, Robert Timothy Smith, Keegan-Michael Key, Brianne Howey, Hayes MacArthur, Post Malone, P.J. Byrne, Jaden Carson Baker, and Kai Cech. The film is directed by Bobby Farrelly. The screenplay is written by Ricky Blitt and Peter Farrelly from a story they concieved with Dan Ewen.

Dear Santa hits Paramount+ and on Digital on November 25, 2024.

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Playing with Fire (2019)

I didn’t go into Playing with Fire with high expectations. At best, I hoped to see a harmless film which would entertain young children and leave their parents mildly amused. I suppose the smallest of kiddies will laugh at big ol’ John Cena trying in vain to contain a trio of children but even so, this movie doesn’t do anything particularly well.

Superintendent Jake Carson (Cena) wants nothing but to be the best smoke jumper he can be. He must impress Commander Richards (Dennis Haysbert), which is why his world is turned upside down when he saves a trio of children - Brynn (Brianna Hildebrand), Will (Christian Convery) and Zoey (Finley Rose Slater) - and must take care of them until their parents arrive.

Don’t tell me I didn’t give the film a chance. When Jake saves the three siblings from a blaze, they hardly have a speck of soot on them much less suffer from smoke inhalation. How did they even get into a position where they needed saving? We never find out. It doesn’t matter. Anything to get the three troublemakers in the smoke jumper’s station so they can tear the place apart like gremlins. The kids go beyond simply being clumsy or too curious for their own good. They cause thousands of dollars of damages and never learn any lessons that would prevent them from wreaking more havoc. Worse, these kids are too old to be doing this kind of nonsense. They’re flat-out dumb - perfectly matched with Jake and his co-workers, who have somehow managed to keep their dog alive but act as if they live in a world in which no child has been born in decades.

There isn’t one character whom you can’t figure out within minutes. Judy Greer plays Dr. Amy Hicks, an amphibian specialist Jake ditched midway through their third date but you know what role she plays in this film. You know what’s going to happen to the kids in the end and to Jake as well. The only possible unknowns are the trio of goofballs whom Jake works with - Rodrigo (John Leguizamo), Mark (Keegan-Michael Key), and “Axe” (Tyler Mane). Will the film care enough to give them something to do in the end, or are they just a collection of quirks glued together?

Playing with Fire is the kind of movie whose last scene has everyone happily dance to a popular song. It’s got no basis in reality whatsoever but the gags don’t come at a pace that’s fast enough to keep you entertained. The adults are so incompetent and the children so destructive I was grinding my teeth by the time the obligatory forced sentiments were dumped onto my head. If you have a significant other and they want kids but you don’t, I suggest you take them to this movie. They’ll be looking at quotes for a vasectomy in no time. (Theatrical version on the big screen, November 10, 2019)

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Dear Santa (2024)

My rating: 6/10

As Christmas movies featuring demons go (there's a weird amount of those, honestly), this is charming enough for the most part, but man did they whiff that ending.

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Playing With Fire (2019) Film Review

Playing With Fire (2019) Film Review

With Dwayne Johnson firmly established as a Hollywood superstar, it is now former WWE wrestler John Cena’s turn to become a film star. After starring in hits such as Trainwreck and Bumblebee, he is now leading the way in the latest feature by Nickelodeon.

Playing with Firestars Cena as dedicated smokejumper Jake Carson, whose dream job is to become division commander. During an accident, he…

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Real talk? I haven't been the same since Humpty Hump ruined the image and the style I was used to.

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