I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

An evil millionaire believes he is Santa Claus after an accident renders him amnesiac. Santa with Muscles is another horrible and just confusing mess of a film starring Hulk Hogan as Santa Claus (yeah they actually got a WWE Wrestler to play Santa imagine that huh?). I didn't enjoy the stoyline, the acting was some of the worst i have ever seen since the age of Dinosaurs and the entire premise of the movie falls flat from the first 5 seconds of the film. If you love Christmas movies go and watch Home Alone 3 it's stupid but it's stupid fun unlike this. (F)

At the start of this month, I was wondering what exactly made a Christmas movie - thoughts prompted by finally watching the iconic "It's A Wonderful Life". My conclusion, such as it was, was that it was the film's message that mattered and not fake snow and Father Christmas saving the day. So what then are we to make of a movie such as this which turns a fundamentally unlikeable twit into the most idiotic hero I've ever seen in any film. If IMDb is correct then this should be the worst movie I've ever seen, judging by its long stay in the notorious Bottom 100. It certainly makes a strong case as it's too stupid for any family to enjoy, devoid of any real charm and practically insults the viewer from the opening reel with cheap effects, pitiful performances throughout and a plot that even the screenwriter would deny any knowledge of.The plot, such as it is, revolves around self-centred multi-millionaire Blake Thorn (Hulk Hogan) who somehow amassed himself a fortune flogging various fitness products despite having few redeeming qualities and no apparent intelligence - he spends his free time beating up the small number of staff at his mansion and irking the police with Hummer-based paint-ball battles in the streets. After one such incident, Blake hides in the local mall from the police by disguising himself as a department store Santa. But after a convoluted series of events, he takes a blow to the head which causes amnesia severe enough to erase any memory of who he is. Persuaded by dodgy mall elf Lenny (Don Stark) that he is the real Santa, Blake decides to intervene on behalf of a struggling orphanage facing closure at the hands of resident baddie Ebner Frost (Ed Begley Jr) and his gang of goons."Santa With Muscles" really is as dumb as its title, offering nothing in the way of entertainment, stimulation or anything beneficial to mankind in any way. From the opening title screen to the final shot, everything looks as though it was made as cheaply as possible and then budgeted even further. Hogan, who is actually quite a charismatic performer in the ring, is devoid of any charm whatsoever and goes through the motions like a South African sign language interpreter - looking good in theory but sorely lacking in practise. The rest of the cast are equally bad - Begley Jr is hardly a leading light in A-list cinema and judging by his performance here, its easy to see why. Meanwhile, even a pre-teen Mila Kunis fails to distract any attention from how truly dreadful the production is. If I was being charitable (and 'tis the season, as they say), I could say that they did the best job they could with the material and with the inept direction from John Murlowski whose other credits include "Cop Dog" and "Zombie Hamlet". Nope, me neither.It really is one of those films where you wonder how it ever got from the page to the screen without someone somewhere raising the alarm. It even fails to provide anything about the message of Christmas, unless you include the exploitation of fairly serious head injuries for personal gain. Frankly, "Santa With Muscles" isn't just a slap in the face for Christmas movies or even so-called "family" movies - it's a straight-up insult to the movie-making industry as a whole. Here is a small group of writers, producers and actors who think that such mindless drivel counts as entertainment simply because your kids will be watching with you. If you want a family movie that won't end in a fight then may I suggest almost anything by Pixar - "WALL·E" is a monumentally brilliant picture which amuses and educates in equal measure. If you want a Christmas picture then stick with "It's A Wonderful Life" or even "A Muppet's Christmas Carol" if the kids are with you. And if you want to make sure that your family stay away from you this Christmas or at any other time of year then "Santa With Muscles" will do the trick. My only comfort I take from this experience is that there can't be much worse out there, at least if IMDb is correct.

You know that a movie is really bad when it makes you feel psychically ill. This for me was really the case with "Santa with Muscles". It's amazing how many bad Christmas/Santa Claus movies for kids are around. But this movie is even below the normal level of Santa Claus movies, that are made for kids.It's very obviously a movie that got aimed toward young children but just because it's a kids movie doesn't mean it can get away just with everything. But also on top of that; I really can't see how kids could ever enjoy watching this movie. It really isn't that entertaining or humorous to watch because of some serious bad writing. If I had seen this movie as kid it probably wouldn't had annoyed me as much as it did now but I probably would still had been bored out of my skull while watching it.I don't even know what this movie is supposed to be all about. It's such an huge mess to watch and it feels like the script got put together from a couple of other different Santa Claus scripts they had floating around somewhere in a dark corner. The movie too often doesn't make sense and it's a very inconsistent one to watch, since the story jumps all over the place and doesn't seem to know what it wants. What the story is also lacking is a good Christmas message in it. This movie has absolutely none and isn't even about the Christmas spirit at all. Who wants to watch a Santa Claus movie that isn't even somewhat remotely Christmas related.It always has been sort of a mystery as to why Hulk Hogan's acting career never took off. He had the right looks and charisma and was and still is incredibly popular and well known, all over the world, due to his wrestling career. And hey, if Dwayne Johnson and Arnold Schwarzenegger have a big acting career, with similar backgrounds, than why couldn't he? The answer is in movies like this. He made some bad choices with his picks for movies and the highlights of his acting career are cameos in some well known movies, in which he only spoofs himself. So Hulk Hogan doesn't impress much with this movie but so does nobody else in this. The movie made some weird casting choices, by making Steve Valentine and Ed Begley Jr. the main villains. When you have Hulk Hogan as your main hero, you need a strong and way more threatening villain opposing him, not two lab-geeks. It still gets points for having Clint Howard and a very young Mila Kunis in it though.What also puzzles me is if this is supposed to be a Christmas movie than why does this movie look all the time like it got shot in the middle of the summer? Couldn't they at least somewhat tried to fake it.To be honest, I don't think I'll ever put this movie on any of my worst movie lists but that is simply because I have seen so many bad movies, that are even in one way or another worse than this one. But of course that really doesn't make "Santa with Muscles" somewhat of a good or a remotely entertaining watch. Just avoid, it's not even watchable for its cult-value.3/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

...could you find a wrestler playing a millionaire who thinks he's Santa Claus sword fighting a guy in an astronaut suit with a crystal broken off from a mine underneath a church. When you have that picture in your mind, you've already seen the only part of this movie worth watching, if you can even call it that.Don't watch this movie.Don't rent this movie.Don't stay on the channel on which this movie is playing.Forget this movie exists.If you must see it, make sure you are compensated financially for your trouble. If you can avoid seeing it, AVOID IT.You'll be doing your brain a favor.