You won't be disappointed!

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Martians kidnap Santa Claus due to an elder's belief that the Martian children need to experience Christmas and the joys of childhood. This leads to two human children discovering the conspiracy and work to get Santa Claus back by Christmas.This is a bizarre film with a bizarre concept. It's not good at all but if you want a b-grade schlocky film to watch during the holidays, look no further than this. It's for the most part harmless and despite its dumb and schlocky nature, I can understand why some may appreciate this as a guilty pleasure.It's a very low budget film with crappy production qualities, awful looking costumes and special appearances from people in cheap looking polar bear and robot costumes.If you are intrigued by Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, give it a watch. I know some people who like to watch this during Christmas time due to its bizarre nature. It essentially has the same production qualities as an Ed Wood movie but it's a Christmas movie.

There's not a thing that the filmmakers behind Santa Claus Conquers the Martians gets right, but right from the beginning their premise is so preposterous I'm not sure it could have even if it had been helmed by Richard Fleischer on a good day. This is about how martians - who we know are martians because of their awful, vomit-green paint on their faces and helmets that were bought at 1964's equivalent of Party City, despite them not coming from a red planet (for the brief seconds we see Mars it looks more like some green orb with some varying shades of things, I can't describe it at all for the life of me) - see that their martian children are too obsessed with the TV and a news reporter interview with Santa up at the North Pole. This leads them to come to Earth, they end up kidnapping two hapless kids first, and then use a robot (which doesn't do much) to kidnap Santa Claus so they can... do WHAT, exactly? Maybe the filmmakers thought they were going to make a sweet and dopey little children's movie, but what they got instead is alternatingly obnoxious and kind of insane in how the editing goes, not to mention the casting of John Call as a Claus who may just be TOO close to how kids picture Santa so that he becomes nightmare fuel instead. There's one particular martian named Dropo (Bill McCutcheon) who seems to be the biological father of Rob Schneider as far as being the kind of comic relief one wants to punch repeatedly to make him shut his face. There's also a couple of nefarious martians - one of which a Bryan Cranston stand-in and another who has a mustache halfway to Connery's hairy appendage in Zardoz and Daniel Plainview - who are so uptight that their performances can't help but be laughable.I think it's advisable to go the MST3K and/or Rifftrax route for this one, but I would be curious to some day watch it without the addition of the commentary. It's so bad that it's mesmerizing at certain times, from the stultifying acting and extremely cheap sets (at one point, and this is when they're still on the ship I think, the martians put a couple of the kids in what looks like a broom closet, no mock-up done to it at all), and how it's all done with a completely straight face. It's almost excusable how one note the child actors are (if they even are actors, I think a couple of parents lost their children at the bus stop and they were plugged in to this for a week or two), but what undoes any even shred of good-will is that its Santa does the same "conquering" in scene after scene: he will make the martians LAUGH until they're uh still green in the face.This all leads up to a climax where one of the martians is defeated by, you guessed it(?) Santa using his dark arts to use the toys to attack him with their cuteness and toy-ish ways. The way the editing, in a montage style that I'm sure (no, I'm not) was lifted from the Eisenstein cookbook, cuts back to a laughing Santa Claus during this makes it look like he could be a serial killer instead of jolly ol' St. Nick. From the consistently terrible dialog, an occasional appearance by a newsman that looks like a marionette, and the first screen appearance by, uh, Pia Zadora(!) this is a complete mess, but a lot of fun.(PS: In full disclosure I did watch this with Rifftrax Live, and it made for a spectacular experience)

Oh dear! As misguided family movies go, they don't come much more misguided than Santa Claus Conquers The Martians. A meagre budget does not necessarily spell doom for a film (check out some of Mario Bava's films, for instance, which had little money behind them but still emerged pretty good on the whole), but in this case the lack of funding is evident in almost every frame. The whole film is a desperately sad attempt to make a movie for kids and adults to enjoy together – kids are likely to be hugely unimpressed by the lame comedy and boring story, while adults will be depressed by the woeful acting, production values and plot. One critic wrote: "frankly, I am ashamed to be from the same species as the people who made this movie". Which sums it up. Perfectly.On Mars, the Martian children are acting strangely. They seem lethargic and depressed; Martian leader Kimar (Leonard Hicks) notices that his own kids are especially gloomy, and wonders if their obsession with tuning into Earth TV programmes is affecting them. The Martian leadership council summon a wise old elder to ask what he thinks is wrong with the kids. The elder (Carl Don) says that the Martian kids are not allowed to play, to have fun, to be young-at-heart, etc, and this, coupled with the fact that it is almost Christmas time on Earth, is making them unhappy. By watching so many Earth shows, they are learning all about Santa Claus and festive spirit, and feel like they're missing out. Kimar decides to take a unit of men to Earth to kidnap Santa (John Call) and bring him back to Mars to cheer up the children. They accidentally end up capturing Billy (Victor Stiles) and Betty (Donna Conforti), a couple of Earth children, as well as old Saint Nick himself. Trouble beckons when Martian subordinate Voldar (Vincent Beck), who has been vociferously opposed to the plan from the word go, tries to sabotage the mission by doing harm to Santa and the two Earth children.The sets wobble and bounce, the outfits look ultra-cheap and unintentionally funny, the make-up is pitiful (towards the end the green Martian make-up must have almost run out as the Martians look nearly white… unless there's a whole racist subtext at work?), and the performances are roundly terrible. Don as the elder is so awful, adopting a croaky drawl which makes him sound like a constipated cockerel, that the audience is reduced to guffaws during his scene. The others fare little better (Stiles and Conforti are wooden as the Earth kids; Call chuckles away inanely as Santa; and Bill McCutheon as comic relief character Dropo is so irritating one wishes one could strangle him and quietly dispose of him in the space garbage!) At least Hicks and Beck try to give interesting performances as bickering Martians, although the dumb dialogue defeats their efforts. Worst of all is the utter deadly dullness of the film. I literally cannot watch this movie in a horizontal position – I attempted to view it twice in bed, and was sound asleep both times within mere minutes. In the end I stood up and watched the movie whilst ironing to make sure I stayed awake. That bad, you ask? You bet ya!

'Santa Claus Conquers the Martians' has to be the only movie that I have ever seen with a credit for a 'Custume Designer'. It puzzled me for the first few minutes but once I got a grip on the toilet brush I was about to witness, it didn't seem to bother me that much. This isn't just a bad movie it redefines bad movies. If ever a holiday pipe-cleaner existed this is it.It involves a group of Martians whom have hit upon the problem that all their children ever do is watch earth television shows centering around Santa Claus. So they kidnap Santa and a group of kids so that they can do away with the big guy and focus their children's attention on more important things. Their bargain basement 'custumes' look off the rack from trips to K-mart AND the hardware store. Their spaceship looks like sets thrown out after 'Laugh-in' got cancelled.It does have one thing going for it, a catchy title. Beyond that the movie stinks to high heaven. Some bad movies are watchable, take 'Plan 9 From Outer Space' for example, its bad and everyone know it, but you can still watch it and laugh, SCCTM you can watch if you have insomnia. Strangely I saw this movie only a day after I saw 'Santa Claus' a lousy Mexican kids movie from 1959 and shoddy as it was I still managed to laugh at it's shortcomings with good spirits. 'Santa Claus Conquers the Martians' is isn't just inept it's inexplicable.The characters? What characters? The Martains are rigid fools, the earth kids are good annoyingly good and the Martian children (one of whom is Pia Zadora) march through the movie with a case of stage fright. Then there's John Call who plays the right jolly old elf with a smoke billowing pipe and a giddiness that isn't so much jolly as he is a cause for concern.This movie has made list after list of the worst movies of all time but I think it belongs on a shelf of it's own, even MSTieing it didn't help. So, go have a merry Christmas and believe me you'll have a better one if you'll stay away from this lump of *ahem* coal.