anaconda-40658 Review of Jingle All the Way

Jingle All the Way (1996)

Jingle This Film All the Way Down a Trash Compactor.

[1/10 · 26 January 2016]

Jingle all the Way (1996): Dir: Brian Levant / Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sinbad, Rita Wilson, Phil Hartman, James Belushi: Perhaps the stupidest Christmas film imaginable. It had to be a real warped mind to conjure this garbage up. A man is stampeded by a group of immature adults seeking a Turbo Man action figure. This is obviously the Christmas version of lame action movies with violence toned down to Arnold Schwarzenegger clubbing a line of Santas with a giant candy cane. Directed by Brian Levant who was responsible for the horrible screen adaptation of The Flintstones. Well, he hits even lower notes here. Schwarzenegger and mail carrier Sinbad compete for the action figure in what can easily be described as career suicide for both. One particularly stupid scene at a radio station has Sinbad holding off police with a gift that he claims is a bomb. When it actually turns out to be a bomb, Sinbad asks, "What is the world coming to?" Perhaps the screenwriter can fill us in. In lame supporting roles are Rita Wilson as Schwarzenegger's wife and Phil Hartman as his womanizing neighbor who threatens to move in on Wilson. James Belushi plays a nasty mall Santa who candy cane battles Schwarzenegger and it is embarrassing to watch. The film so cheap that it should be wrapped in a trash bag in hopes that Santa will deliver it down the nearest chimney fire. Score: 0 / 10