ManiakJiggy This is How Movies Should Be Made

BroadcastChic Excellent, a Must See

Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Jerrie It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

laticewilliams There is plenty of films that get made that turn out bad. Hollywood has given us lots of mega turds. Every Adam Sandler movie is terrible. Also most films that featured a Saturday Night Live Character are most of the time laugh free. All of them cost millions and most of them could not ring a laugh out of me. Not to mention none of them have one moment that was worth remembering. This is not the case with "Sana Claus Conquers the Martians". It is campy but it is fun. There is plenty of memorable moments. My favorite is when the toy manufacturing machine goes haywire. In this movie the people of Mars kidnap Santa Claus so he can bring the "Child Out" in the children of Mars. Yes its not great cinema but it is entertainingAdults if you don't like it fine but children will. It is made for children that believe in Santa.

O2D This movie is considered one of the worst of all time.Although i don't completely disagree,I can honestly say it's probably the best movie I have reviewed so far. I can't find any definitive proof but I'm pretty sure this was made for TV.There are little breaks,it's 81 minutes and not rated and it's just very poorly made.All made for TV trademarks. The best part of the movie is Pia Zadora(who???) in the role of a lifetime as Girmar,the emotionless Martian child. So the Martians are advanced enough that they receive earth(American) TV and they understand and speak English. Yet they are dumb enough to think Santa Claus is what their planet needs. There's lots of terrible acting and plot holes. The Martians abduct Santa at gunpoint(the guns are hilarious and they never shoot anything),they also take 2 children so they won't be able to tell anyone what happened to Santa.Two seconds after they leave earth,the entire world knows Martians did it. They use stock US military footage for the space force that goes after the Martians,you know...the United States Space Force....... There are a couple Batman-esque "Bang,Pow" fights to counter the rambling dialogues.It's not enough to save the movie but it's something. There are apparently about 9 people on Mars,yet when one puts on Santa's spare costume,half of them think he really is Santa. The abducted children never cry or complain or ask for their mommy or to go home.They also quickly memorize all the Martians names,an amazing feat. Santa is happy and making really bad jokes the whole time and the name is a total lie.Santa Claus does nothing but make toys.At one point,the kids shoot bubbles at one Martian but that's it. At the end he just says goodbye and they leave. If you love terrible movies,you must see this. If you value your time, you shouldn't have even read this review.

Dr Moo This movie is hilarious. Seriously. I couldn't stop watching it.The plot is about what happens when Saint Nicholas himself is kidnapped by Martians and they also kidnap two Earth-Children to help them find him as there's too many of his impersonators for them to identify the real thing. The premise is daft but the execution is brilliant as you really do believe that you are seeing real-life Martians kidnapping Santa from the North Pole. Taking him to their base on Mars all chaos breaks loose but Santa doesn't actually conquer the Martians at all meaning that the title is a lie but if you can get past the misleading title you'll find this to be an incredible Christmas treat that is not to be missed, in fact you have no excuse to miss this as it's in the public domain and the whole thing is on YouTube for free.The acting, directing, writing, effects and sets are all superb. This didn't win any awards which is nothing short of daylight robbery, this movie is so good that it puts the likes of "The Shawshank Redemption" and "The Dark Knight" and "Raiders of the Lost Ark" to shame for how shoddy they are; I didn't laugh even once at any of them but every moment of this is spectacular comedy. I give this ten out of ten!

Rick Smith The title alone is ridiculous, but growing up in the 70's/80's this was one of those films shown during the holiday's every year and for some reason you watched it. The costumes, set design are very low budget. As an example, the martians are painted green (because that's what martians would look like from the red planet), and the clothing they wear is....you guessed it, green. Including the helmets, boots, etc...Tom Hatten subjected the youth on weekends to this I believe, as a way to prove that holiday films could only get better in the future. If you were a fan of this film when you were young, re-watch it alone before subjecting your children to it so you can remember just how 'good' it was. Unless of course, you wish to cause them pain and regret spending time with you. I suggest if you are a divorced parent, you choose one of the Rankin holiday animated classics if you want something that hearkens back to your childhood.