- Starring
- Jack Black, Robert Timothy Smith, Keegan-Michael Key
- Director
- Bobby Farrelly
- Rating
- PG-13
- Genre
- Comedy, Fantasy, Christmas, Horror
- Release date
- Nov 25, 2025
Overall Score
Rating Overview
Rating Summary
Dear Santa follows the story of a young boy named Liam who, due to a spelling error, accidentally sends his Christmas wish list to Satan instead of Santa. Jack Black stars as the devilish Asmodeus, who decides to respond to Liam’s letter, leading to a series of chaotic events. As Asmodeus wreaks havoc on the holidays, Liam and his family must navigate the unexpected consequences of his wishes.
Dear Santa Review
Between its not-ready-for-Hallmark performances and its completely mystifying combination of adult and juvenile humor as well as children’s themes, Dear Santa makes Dwayne Johnson’s Red One seem like A Miracle on 34th Street. It’s a black hole of humorless jokes built on a ridiculous premise and written with less skill than most bathroom wall rants.
I had to watch it, and that was bad enough. Please don’t make me talk about it anymore. Suffice it to say that every adult involved in its creation is a bad person and a bad parent, and so are those who let their children watch it, knowing what it is.
INAPPROPRIATE ELEMENTS
Aside From The Premise?
- The movie makes Satan into a non-threatening, playful joke and a reasonable fellow who ultimately cares for the well-being of a handful of people.
- It’s a kids movie.
Words, Words, Words
- It is full of foul language. I stopped counting after a while.
- Son of a…
- Countless damns
- So many hells (as a curse)
- God’s name it tossed about in vain constantly
- A talking cat tells a young boy that “Satan is the $h!t.
- At least one dumb@$$
It’s For Kids
- There are a number of inappropriate “jokes.”
- Satan tells a demon, “You really screwed the pooch on that one,” to which the demon replies, “That was one time, and I was going through something.”
- Jack Black’s character says to an 11-year-old boy, “Why would I touch you? I’m the Devil, not a trusted family member.
- Are dead kids funny? Because a kid who was once dead is the film’s final punchline.
WOKE ELEMENTS
Could It Be Satan?
- It might be rated PG-13, but those responsible for this movie wrote it as a children’s film, and Satan is the good guy.
See Above
- All of the elements in the previous section are in a children’s movie because the ultra-radical progressives who made it have no concept of what it means to protect innocent children.
James Carrick
James Carrick is a passionate film enthusiast with a degree in theater and philosophy. James approaches dramatic criticism from a philosophic foundation grounded in aesthetics and ethics, offering insight and analysis that reveals layers of cinematic narrative with a touch of irreverence and a dash of snark.
12 comments
Aloysius T. McKeever
November 29, 2024 at 2:49 pm
Sounds super awful
Me
November 30, 2024 at 10:46 am
I mightve been a little more forgiving of this movie if it was intentionally made to be a stupid adult comedy rather than a poorly acted children’s movie
James Carrick
November 30, 2024 at 10:50 am
1000% I think the premise has some merit for a screwball comedy circa the 2000s.
tullsagra_simon
December 1, 2024 at 5:33 pm
How is it woke to make a comedy film where Satan is portrayed as a good guy, that God forbid children can see? To be offended by this is just American puritanism (incomprehensible here in Europe), that really just is the other side of the same wokeist coin.
bowill01
December 10, 2024 at 7:40 pm
Your response was confusing. In America Satan is universally considered to be pure evil. Blending good and evil into shades of gray is for sure a woke trend.
Lurking_Lemon
December 7, 2024 at 12:52 am
I stopped watching roughly 15-30 minutes in, the reason being that the writers’ definition of humor appeared to consist of 50% middle schoolers saying crap and hell at every opportunity, 20% awkward sexual tension (presumably to make the 6th grade protagonist more…relateable? I think that was the intent) and 30% Jack Black yelling.
tullsagra_simon
December 14, 2024 at 8:17 pm
Isn’t wokeism, woke ideology (where it’s in your face : gay sex, sex changing, and radical feminism, and when they make a movie about mediaval king Arthur, he’s black)? Why do you try to hijack this cause for just American puritans?
James Carrick
December 14, 2024 at 9:04 pm
That’s certainly part of it, but just as pernicious and ultimately at the root of its failing is its denial of objective truth, specifically that of the existence of both good and evil and their mutually incompatibility. There is a straight line drawn from this denial to woke ideology.
For as long as I own Worth it or Woke, we will never stop being an American Christian conservative website that analyzes and writes from an American Christian conservative perspective.
https://worthitorwoke.com/about-us/
Satan
December 24, 2024 at 2:19 pm
You say you’re Anti Woke but in fact write negative reviews about anything that pokes fun at Christianity or and Christian belief. You are in fact doing exactly what “The woke” are doing but in the name of Christianity. Hypocritical doesn’t even come close to what you are all about.
James Carrick
December 24, 2024 at 2:23 pm
Maybe one day they’ll create a new word for my particular brand of evil.
Tomsly3225
January 7, 2025 at 4:29 pm
I have seen this movie recently, I can say It’s Alright, I’m not saying It’s the best or the worst, some parts can seem a bit Cringy well at least in my opinion. The kid has some problems because he can’t spell Santa and the North pole “Satan” and I think he spelled the other one “North Lope” or something like that, Watch it if you want, It doesn’t hurt to watch but It could be better.
Patriot in America
January 14, 2025 at 1:35 am
Santa is woke commie drivel anyway, how can you justify showing kids that they can get free gifts for no reason? What kind of example does that set?