Everybody's heard of movies so bad they're good. In the case of Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, I would like to nominate it as the first film that's so bad it's utterly hilarious.
Starring a group of nobodies and a young girl who should've remained a nobody (Pia Zandora), the film battles with a low budget and poor acting all throughout. The story is actually relatively original for a movie of this budget: Martian children are growing bored and listless, causing the adults on Mars to kidnap Santa Claus to try and alleviate this condition.
Beyond the story, most of the rest of the movie is too funny for words. Santa acts like a drunkard, the Martians use a freeze ray on some of our heroes (that doesn't work as the actors don't know how to stand still), a man in an extremely fake bear suit chases two Earth children (who act so poorly that I can hardly believe they're actually children), a robot is made out of cardboard boxes and dryer tubes, and so on, and so forth.
Despite the film's obvious low quality, I think everybody should watch it at least once. The film is so full of unintentional humor that it makes it well worth the small investment. (I've heard there is also a Mystery Science Theater 3000 version of this episode, but I've yet to watch it. I'm sure it's quite hilarious, though.)
Starring a group of nobodies and a young girl who should've remained a nobody (Pia Zandora), the film battles with a low budget and poor acting all throughout. The story is actually relatively original for a movie of this budget: Martian children are growing bored and listless, causing the adults on Mars to kidnap Santa Claus to try and alleviate this condition.
Beyond the story, most of the rest of the movie is too funny for words. Santa acts like a drunkard, the Martians use a freeze ray on some of our heroes (that doesn't work as the actors don't know how to stand still), a man in an extremely fake bear suit chases two Earth children (who act so poorly that I can hardly believe they're actually children), a robot is made out of cardboard boxes and dryer tubes, and so on, and so forth.
Despite the film's obvious low quality, I think everybody should watch it at least once. The film is so full of unintentional humor that it makes it well worth the small investment. (I've heard there is also a Mystery Science Theater 3000 version of this episode, but I've yet to watch it. I'm sure it's quite hilarious, though.)
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