Dear Santa

 It's the holiday season, and that means christmas movies!

And what do you get when you let the man in the house pick the movie for the evening... yeah, Jack Black.

 

Liam is a soft, but dyslexic, 6th grader whose parents are having marriage issues due to the death of his little brother and their move to another town.  Adding to that, he doesn't dare introduce his friend Gibby, and makes a fool of himself in front of his school crush Emma.

 

Hoping for the best, he writes a letter to Santa, but misspells it instead as Satan, who appears before him amazed he actually got a letter.  Liam does still believe though he is Santa, and he grants Liam three wishes in exchange for his soul.  This helps Liam getting a date with Emma to a Post Malone concert, for which Satan even provides VIP tickets.

 

 

Gibby though points out his mistake, but Liam can't get out of the deal anymore.  Returning home, his parents have enlisted the help of child psychologist Dr Finkelman, but Gibby and Satan interrupt his interview to bring Liam to the concert.  There he is called on stage together with Emma, but when Liam notices Gibby's disappointment due to his huge overbite, he uses his second wish to make that better.

 

Going with Emma and Gibby to the christmas carnival, his parents steal him away and bring him to Dr Finkelman's clinic, fearing his fantasies are getting out of hand.  But a nurse who was at the concert shatters the theory Liam might be delusional, and his regretful parents begin to reconcile.  Liam misunderstands them and sneaks to Santa's motelroom to use his third wish, to keep his parents in love forever.

 

Back in Hell, it is revealed Satan is actually a low-ranking half demon under trials to become an anctual one.  Here he is chastised by Lucifer for granting two unselfish wishes to Liam, making the soul deal invalid, and he will be banished.  He says his goodbye's to Liam and confesses his act, and tells him his parents made up on their own, so he used the contents of Liam's letter to make up for the third wish.

 

 

When christmas arrives next day, his brother appears, resurrected to celebrate the holidays with his family in their new home.  Liam gets a call from Gibby, who has convinced Emma to give Liam another try, by telling her about his brother's death.  This causes Liam to panic as to how to explain his ressurection to her though...

 

A fine fun, innocent christmas comedy, definitly better then the Hallmark stuff they shove down out throats this period, and worth a watch with the family.