Santa with Muscles

PG 2.6
1996 1 hr 38 min Action , Comedy , Family

Penurious but muscle-bound Blake Thorne has made a vast fortune marketing health food and health supplements. He once was a nice fellow, but as his wealth increases, he becomes increasingly self-centered and decadent. One day, he gets in a great paint-gun fight that goes too far. Blake escapes the cops by running into a shopping mall, quickly donning a Santa Suit and pretending to be St. Nick. A head injury causes Blake to suffer amnesia, and an opportunistic "elf" decides to convince Blake that he is indeed Santa. This leads "Santa" to help save an orphanage, filled with adorable moppets, from the machinations of a greedy, insane doctor.

  • Cast:
    Hulk Hogan , Ed Begley Jr. , Don Stark , Robin Curtis , Clint Howard , Mila Kunis , Adam Wylie

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Reviews

PodBill
1996/11/08

Just what I expected

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ChanBot
1996/11/09

i must have seen a different film!!

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Limerculer
1996/11/10

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

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Kirandeep Yoder
1996/11/11

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

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Scott07-808-269812
1996/11/12

Lots of people write bad things about this film, if your looking for a serious plot, deep characters or a well developed story line then jog on. The film is supposed to be silly, so if you allow it to be silly then its quite funny in places. The idea of the film is daft and as you may expect from Hulk Hogan its very over the top. Most of the villains in the film make no sense and are just funny to watch each one has their crazy special power, all of which are just weird.This film is great if you just want to turn you mind off and laugh at something silly. I really don't understand all the negative reviews, the film is not trying to be a work of art, its trying to be silly and funny, it does these very well.

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MartinHafer
1996/11/13

If ever there was a family holiday film that could kill the holiday spirit, this film is it. It makes "Jingle All the Way" and even "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians" seem GOOD in comparison! And, if you ever meet anyone who hates Christmas, chances are that they saw this film! This movie is a cloying, annoying dud...the sort of contrived mess of a film that makes you want to tell Hollywood to STOP making holiday movies if this is the sort of crap they think the public could want! The film begins with Hulk Hogan playing some sort of combination rich guy, superhero, GI Joe wannabe and ninja. I am glad that his impressions of himself and his abilities are not in any way over-ambitious or egocentric! In a stupid freak accident, the Hulkster now thinks he's Santa and comes to the aid...I kid you not...of a home for orphans!! Folks, it just doesn't get any worse than this--or does it?! Well, in fact it does. You see, the evil man behind this is, naturally, Ed Begley, Jr. and I assume he wanted this property to build an electric car dealership. But, in a bizarre twist, it's to get a whole bunch of neon-like power crystals hidden in an underground vault! Say what?!?!? Begley's crew of evil villains look like the sort of baddies that might attack Barney the dinosaur. They are all really, really lame and are about as threatening as a mild case of dandruff. And, it's up to Hulk to kick some butt (wow, not a tough thing in this case), win the hearts of a whole bunch of cute moppets AND manage to make a family-friendly movie that involves lots of punching, kicking and other forms of violence! The film has absolutely nothing going for it other than Hogan's massive ego. The acting is crap, the script is crap, the action is crap and there is nothing...I repeat, NOTHING of any value to this steaming pile of....movie. What makes it worse is the 'surprise' twist concerning the villain and Hulk's childhood--which, oddly, neither seemed to remember! Sadly, anyone seeing this turkey of a film will not have the same thing occur--they'll never forget having wasted nearly an hour and a half on this snot-fest. This film easily deserves to be on IMDb's Bottom 100 list, as it's the worst vanity project I've seen in ages--and a family film which is too violent and stupid for kids and just about impossible for any adult to sit through without massive amounts of liquor.My favorite part of the film? Towards the end, one of the lame villains yells "It's gonna blow!!". He couldn't have been more right, though he probably should have said this at the beginning in order to warn people what they were in for seeing! I think I'd have rather seen "Chitty, Chitty Bang, Bang", "The Adventures of Pippi Longstocking" or even "Son of the Mask" instead of this movie--it was that bad!By the way, there is a worse Christmas film. The 1959 Mexican film "Santa Claus" is in the Bottom 100 as well and it is light-years worse! But, for a big-budget Hollywood Christmas story, "Santa With Muscles" takes the prize!

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James Miller
1996/11/14

Well now, this was probably one of the most fantastic pieces of movie literature to ever be produced within this day and age of cinematography Hulk Hogan is the greatest actor of all time, and he is also, the greatest wrestler to ever, take foot within the wrestling ring.Now, I am a hulkamaniac.Best movie ever Best movie ever Best movie ever.10/10bNothing beats seeing a movie about Santa, with fight scenes, thieves trying to steal crystals from an orphanage with Hulk Hogan, the man with a plan, coming in and desecrating the enemies ! pewpew !

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lastliberal
1996/11/15

OK, this is probably the absolutely worst Christmas program ever! No, it is not as bad as Feeders 2: Slay Bells, but for a Christmas show it is pretty bad.Hulk Hogan may have been a good wrestler, but he certainly cannot act. Here he bumps his head and thinks he's Santa. He is up against a group of real clowns led by Ed Begley, Jr. Steve Valentine from "Crossing Jordan" and more Grade Z actors.The only redeeming performance was little Aria Noelle Curzon, who was nine at the time.Cross this one off your Christmas list.

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