Dear Santa (2024) 🎄🔥

“A typo, a devil, and 90 minutes of regret.”


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🎬 Let’s start by showing y’all the trailers shall we?

The trailers sell this as a cheeky, edgy Christmas comedy where a kid accidentally writes to Satan instead of Santa and chaos ensues.

Cool concept… for a 30-second skit.

The problem?
The trailers show you every joke, every beat, and every tonal trick the movie has. There is nothing left for the actual film to surprise you with. What you see in the trailer is exactly what you get — just louder, longer, and significantly more irritating.


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🎄 Non-Spoiler Plot Overview

A kid writes a Christmas letter, misspells Santa as Satan, and accidentally summons the Devil into his life.

And what does that note end up saying? Dear Satan from North Lope. Sighhhh Dear Satan from North Lope? Hey look im not making fun of people who cant spell, this film is doing that.

The Devil (played by Jack Black) decides to hang around, cause chaos, and “teach lessons” while the family reacts like malfunctioning NPCs.

That’s the plot.

No layers.
No escalation.
No clever twists.

Just one typo dragged kicking and screaming into feature-length runtime.


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🧍 Character Rundown

And here’s where the movie really starts to rot.

Liam (the kid) – Whiny, selfish, and never actually grows. The movie pretends he learns a lesson, but nothing about his behavior changes.

The Parents – Oblivious, poorly written, and emotionally hollow. They exist purely to react loudly.

Satan (Jack Black) – Loud, chaotic, and shockingly unfunny. No menace. No charm. No depth.

Everyone Else – Set dressing. Human props.


There is not a single likable character in this entire film. That is impressive in the worst way.


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⏱️ Pacing / Episode Flow

This movie feels longer than it is, which is cinematic poison.

Scenes drag. Jokes repeat. Bits overstay their welcome.

There’s no rhythm, no momentum — just a constant feeling of “Okay… can this be over now?”


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✅ Pros

I’ll be fair. Briefly.

Jack Black could have been good with better material

The production value is fine

Some set designs look decent


That’s it.
That’s the list.


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❌ Cons

Oh boy. Where do we begin?

The premise is fundamentally dumb

One joke stretched into a full movie

Jack Black is in full loud-autopilot mode

No heart, no warmth, no Christmas spirit

The tone is confused: too mean for kids, too dumb for adults

Characters are aggressively unlikable

No emotional payoff

No rules for how “Satan” works

No reason for Satan to even care

Ends with a half-baked “lesson” it never earned

❌ Mean-Spirited Tone

The biggest sin this movie commits is that it’s mean-spirited, and not in a clever or purposeful way. The film constantly mocks its own characters instead of understanding them. The kid isn’t treated with empathy — he’s treated like a walking problem to laugh at. The parents are written as clueless caricatures. Satan isn’t mischievous or threatening; he’s just a loud bully who exists to humiliate people. There’s no warmth beneath the chaos, no sense that the cruelty is building toward anything meaningful. For a Christmas movie especially, this is fatal. You can’t spend the entire runtime sneering at your characters and then suddenly ask the audience to care when the movie decides it wants a heartfelt ending. The tone feels cynical, dismissive, and oddly cruel — and that makes the whole experience unpleasant rather than funny.



This movie doesn’t know what it wants to be — and it shows.


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🎯 Final Thoughts

This should have been:

A sketch

A parody trailer

A rejected streaming pitch


Instead, it’s a joyless, noisy, cynical Christmas movie that somehow manages to waste both its cast and its concept.

It’s not “so bad it’s good.”
It’s not dumb fun.
It’s just bad.


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⭐ Rating

0 / 10

No irony.
No exaggeration.
Just… no.


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⚠️ Spoiler Warning

🚨 From here on out, we’re talking specifics. 🚨


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🚨 Spoilers

The movie tries to wrap everything up with a soft, emotionally manipulative ending where the kid “learns” the true meaning of Christmas and Satan gets sent back after causing chaos.

But here’s the problem:
The movie spent its entire runtime being loud, cruel, and empty — so when it suddenly asks you to care?

Yeah. No.

The emotional resolution feels fake. The lesson feels stapled on. And the Devil, who was never threatening or interesting to begin with, exits without consequence or impact.

It’s the cinematic equivalent of saying:

> “Anyway… Christmas!”




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🎄 Final Verdict

Dear Santa is a reminder that not every “edgy holiday idea” deserves to exist.
This one should’ve stayed misspelled.