Great Film overall

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Jingle All the Way is a very mediocre movie with a pretty straight forward plot that never does anything spectacular and a reasonable cast. It certainly has its moments and I would be lying if I said I did not have fun watching this. Arnold Schwarzenegger is giving a lot of energy and enthusiasm to this role that, as tragic as his delivery of his dialogue is, he is immensely fun to watch. The highlight for me is without a doubt Phil Hartman, who has the best lines and steals every scene he is in, his flamboyant character never failed to make me chuckle. It is certainly an unexceptional Christmas movie that tries and fails to be heartwarming. As the entire film follows a dad trying to get a toy for his son, there is never a reason for us to feel truly embraced and caring of this dad's commercialised adventure. The final twenty minutes of the film are completely ridiculous, the plot gets extremely convoluted and so carried away with spectacle that it switches that for wrapping up the story and giving us a proper conclusion. Nothing brilliant, but I was never bored. There are far better Christmas films out there, but Jingle All the Way is worth a try if you ever catch it on television or a streaming service. A dad searches far and wide for the one gift his son wants for Christmas. Best Performance: Phil Hartman / Worst Performance: Sinbad

From the director of mrs diughtfire we bring you thw greatest thing ever made mabye it's a instant classic if you dont like it you are way too critical this is a perfect example of a mad Christmas mall you search. It's awesome it's so funny. Sinbad killls it in this movie he is amazing and arlond is amazing. Jim bulushi is in this too as Santa that is a conman and a criminal that tries to get him to by the scam product of turble man doll. It's just a stupid little doll. It's great movie do so just watch it.

Worried that another broken promise will make him lose his son's trust forever, a workaholic father spends the whole of December 24 trying to track down an action figure sold out across town in this Christmas comedy starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. The film has a reputation as one of the action star's weakest films and the plot is admittedly thin (essentially one joke stretched out for 90 minutes), however, the film has many genuinely funny moments along the way. Much of the humour comes from how ridiculous Arnie looks scurrying around town, even chasing a little girl through department store play equipment, as he becomes lost in the materialistic toy craze that plagues so many families every year. The film does not offer a deep critique on consumerism and toy marketing, but satirical ideas do linger throughout. The film also successfully derives much humour from Phil Hartman as a slimy, smooth-talking neighbour and Robert Conrad as a police officer who keeps running into Arnie (the funniest moment though has Arnie scaring a bunch of carolers in a burning house). Less successful is a running gag involving an over-the-top Sinbad as a mailman also after the coveted toy. The film also contains too many pratfalls for its own good. Funny all the way or not, the energy that all concerned place into the film is hard to deny, and the film works almost on sheer vibrancy alone.

Jingle All The Way is one of the most demented holiday comedies I've ever laid eyes on. It stars a yowling, hopped up Arnold Schwarzenegger as a neglectful dad stuck in a mad dash to get ahold of a special Toy for his son on Christmas Eve, plagued by all kinds of random, inane obstacles including trying to pronounce words so he doesn't sound like he's got a mouthful of eggnog in every scene. He's an odd choice to play the role, and it's almost as if Jim Carrey or Robin Williams called in sick for a month and he picked up the slack. It's stupid, it's clunky, it's beyond ridiculous.... and somehow works perfectly. Ahnuld's amps up his awkward, oblong charm and blunders around like an Austrian bull in a china shop, but sells the movie in his own unbelievable way. He's promised his kid (Anakin Skywalker) that he'll get a him a Turbo Man doll for Christmas, which just happens to be the hottest item of the season, causing quite an ordeal for him as the days goes on. He's hampered by a sleazy mall Santa (Jim Belushi), an angry reindeer, millions of rabid shoppers, his smarmy neighbour (the late Phil Hartman) and a mailman (cringeworthy Sinbad, whose picture you'll find next to both retarded and unfunny in the dictionary) who also seeks the elusive Turbo Man. The finale reaches sparing heights of unapologetic implausibility and just a hint of touching, father son bonding between the terminator and future darth vader. I dare not touch the sequel (starring Larry The stupid Cable Guy) with a ten foot North Pole. This one was a bundle of silly fun though.