RiffTrax Year: 2017
Riffers: Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett
This rather generic Christmas short is just a really cheap holiday "treat" for good little boys and girls who want to see Santa Claus in action. Here we get to see him work with his full workforce of...::counts:: three elves, then he jumps into a cardboard box shaped like a sleigh, and delivers presents on Christmas Eve to the children of the world. Well, specifically one family.
There's nothing really to say about Santa Claus' Workshop because it's just a self-evident bit of fairly tale hokum to keep kids eyes wide way back in the day. Considering kids could go to serials on Saturdays with budgets just as low and stay enraptured in that, I imagine it might have went down well. It just ages like milk spilled under the fridge.
Likewise there isn't a huge lot I can say about the riffing here, which is solidly funny, if a bit workmanlike. The jovial nature of the short keeps their spirits up and their quips are a fun bit of turnabout, but I wouldn't blame one for finding it all a bit a well-treaded path. We've seen a lot of Christmas shorts by now, and a lot of them feature Santa Claus doing his Santa thing. One wonders just how much more they can mine from that. A musical carol of Pretty Woman is cute, but is it fresh?
Fresh might be beside the point though. Will you get laughs for the dollar you pay? Yes. Just know a lot of it will seem familiar.
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