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The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

If that doesn't make sense, you haven't seen this.This is the kind of film David Lynch dreams that he could make. Alejandro Jodorowsky lives in abject terror of its unholy power. You should have to wear some kind of protective brain plate when you watch this.

This is the first "kiddie" film I've seen that is even worse than my gold standard for awful kid's film,"The Magic Land Of Mother Goose".As far as I can tell, the movie opens with Santa's sleigh being stuck in the sand on a beach in Florida. You can tell he's stuck because the runners are covered by a 1/2 inch of sand; and apparently the sled is made out of depleted uranium and dark star matter because Santa and his kid helpers paw at it as if their limbs had turned to cooked spaghetti.At one point the children give up, and to cheer them up, Santa tells them the fable of "Thumbelina", so the movie cuts to a 60 minute telling of the story that would make poor Hans Christian Anderson slash his wrists.Empowered by Santa's mangled fable, the children somehow find Santa's "old friend" (?) the Ice Cream Bunny. The ICB has a fire track, and he drives it to the Santa's rescue in a film sequence that seems to last 3 years and 5 days.Once Santa gets into the ICB's firetruck and they drive off, the sled magically blinks away, so apparently it had a fail-safe lockout that kept it from operating whenever a skinny bearded man on a Thunderbird bender and in a filthy Santa Suit tried to start it. The end.Words can not express the rank stupidity and inanity of the narration, the dialog, the acting, the singing, the blocking, the kazoo laden sound track. And Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer show up to comment on the proceedings, and yet they affect and interact with the rest of the film in no way whatsoever. (If Samuel Clemens was still around, he'd have run over the director with a Paddlewheel Steamboat.) I give it 2 stars instead of one because the girl who plays "Thumbelina" is reasonably pleasant looking (if somewhat stiff) and the kids who try to help Santa don't try to "act" (which would have made things even worse.)If you see this thing, you won't soon forget it, that's for sure.

Barry Mahon must not have put enough money aside to make this movie cause the story of Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny is a lot shorter than it seems. It starts with the elves discovering that the reindeer are back at the north pole with out Santa or his sleigh. Santa is struck in Florida where his sleigh is suck in the sand and calls out to some local kids to help him out. So that way he can fulfill his duties in delivering presents.The story is rather odd for an independent film, plus it's unorganized story makes the 1959 Santa Claus film look like a classic. Cause there's no logic in this film at all. Like how the Sleigh doesn't look that heavy to get out of the sand which it just look like it's only a few inches in the sand. Plus Santa doesn't even do much in this film other than sitting in his sleigh all day as if he fears someone would vandalize it. And complaining that it's hot. The kids who try to help him out are like not resourceful. It makes getting a sleigh to move look like a job for the army.The thing that made this movie bad is when Santa tells the story of Thumbelina which has no relation to Christmas or the movie itself. In fact once he starts telling the story we immediately see Barry Mahon's Thumbelina entire movie within this one. Yes I'm serious they waisted three fourths of this movie with inserting a movie that was already made two years before! The Ice Cream Bunny's appearance and role ended up being poorly portray and the cameos of Huck & Tom made no since at all. Thus making this whole movie a complete joke rather than a holiday classic.I won't give any parts of this movie that would ruin it for those who are interested in seeing how bad it is. Believe me it's worse than "Santa Claus conquers the Martians" & "1959 Santa Claus" cause those two actually had direction. For this one it seems Barry Mahon couldn't make the story of Ice Cream Bunny and Santa Claus a long one when he decided to paste Thumbelina in the middle of the whole movie. Plus it was like a further attempt to promote Pirates World which appear briefly in the film. Which unfortunate for them the park was shut down by 1975 making this the last film appearance of the now phantom theme park. If you're looking for a movie worse than the 1959 Santa Claus, then this is it.Copies of this film are rare, so you're best chances of ever watching it would be the Rifftrax version which makes the film funnier than it already is. That's currently the only way to actually watch it if you can spare $9.99 to download it.

I have seen Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny over 600 times and I would have to say that it is the greatest Christmas classic of all time! It is an epic film to which nothing can be compared; a fantasy-adventure which is fun for the whole family. Truly astonishing! This amazing film opens with a scene inside of Santa's workshop at the North Pole. The elves have finished making all of the toys and are ready to load them into Santa's sleigh, but Santa and his sleigh are nowhere to be found! The camera dissolves to a close-up of a palm tree and then slowly zooms out revealing a deserted tropical beach -- deserted, that is, except for Santa Claus who is sitting in his sleigh which is deeply mired in the sand. We soon learn that his reindeer got too hot while pulling Santa's sleigh through the tropics and so they dropped him and his sleigh on the beach and flew off to the North Pole without him.Santa uses his telepathic powers to summon a large group of children to help him pull his sleigh out. The tension builds as the children try to pull Santa's sleigh out with a variety of animals. Unfortunately, his sleigh is so deeply mired in the sand that nothing, not even a big strong horse, can pull it out.Just when there appears to be no hope of rescuing Santa and thereby saving Christmas, the Ice Cream Bunny comes to save the day but can the Ice Cream Bunny really succeed where all others have failed? Watch this film and find out. You will be amazed! The best thing about this film is that it is very suspenseful despite being made on an extremely low budget. When watching this film, one cannot help but wonder how, or even if, Santa can be rescued in time to deliver all of the Christmas presents to all of the girls and boys. Be sure to see it if you get a chance.