With this movie, we finally see how Santa delivers presents to every household in one single night: a massive underground, hi-tech, quasi-military operation, headed by his eldest son, Steve. Looking the part of a military commander, Steve is tall, handsome and muscular. His younger brother, Arthur, is the exact opposite: clumsy, non-muscular and goofy in appearance. He has been placed in the mail room to answer Santa’s letters and stay out of trouble. So, we have the dynamics of the family set up with the prodigal 1st son and the disappointing 2nd son. We all are familiar with this scenario, nothing new here, except these are Santa’s children. The base story line is the dilemma of what to do when a little girl’s house is accidently passed over, during the delivery of presents. This movie had a little of everything–some slapstick, some jokes, some action, some humor. I had a bit of difficultly understanding some of the accented, rapid fire speech and found the story predictable. For children over 7 years old, maybe it would be more of a fun movie. And as an exrra bonus, before the movie, they show Justin Bieber’s holiday video of “Santa Claus is Coming to Town.” What more do you need for the holidays?

2 1/2 stars