WoW Moviewatch: Kael'Thas and the Santa Claus
by Michael Gray 
Dec 16th 2008 at 12:00PM
Wow, Christmas is only 8 days away. I feel like it snuck up on me this year. But Kael'Thas is plenty aware, and he goes to pay a visit to Santa in Kael'Thas and the Santa Claus by Ian Beckman. While the Bad Boy of the Sindorei is eager to plop in Santa's lap, Santa's having none of it. The Christmas Dwarf remembers all too well the stink Kael'Thas made last year.
This is definitely an antic driven comedy, and is a wonderful bite-sized bit of Christmas humor. The graphics are pretty simple, but that really just helps the audience focus on the dialogue. Ian Beckman's the auteur behind Azerothian Super Villains, and I think his emphasis on word play and surreal speech comes across well.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Cinate Dec 16th 2008 12:13PM
i never thought about that, i mean how many kids do you think fart on those poor mall santas laps? funny movie thou, i give it my seal of approval =D
Aeneas Dec 16th 2008 12:23PM
"I think his emphasis on word play and surreal speech comes across well"
Ummm..... Ok.....
I'm afraid I just don't get the effort needed to make a "fart" joke last for 3min of movie.
The idea is good but could have been developed a lot more. The worse things Kael'Thas was fart on santa???
The lore-lovers will be ruthless
Just a personal opinion of course
Randy Dec 16th 2008 12:27PM
I would much prefer that the author of Azerothian Super Villains crank out some more of those episodes then make this stuff......I mean I wanna see Arthas come bitch slap Illy D and put him in his place.
Woolwort Dec 16th 2008 12:50PM
Awful. It's nothing but toilet humor. It's not even good toilet humor
Rosa Dec 16th 2008 1:37PM
Ah, yes, fart jokes. The highest teir of humour.
Keyra Dec 16th 2008 1:46PM
Well, first of all, since Amanda was ribbed about improper grammar, I feel that we should apply it here as well :-)
The word you're searching for is "sneaked".
As for the movie, the word I'm searching for is "yawn". I had one chuckle, but that was about all that I could muster. Maybe if I was in a better mood today, it would have changed my enjoyment of it, but today is dragging so horribly that it's making me a little irritable. C'est la vie.
stevens.ce Dec 16th 2008 3:25PM
"Maybe if I was in a better mood today, it would have changed my enjoyment of it..."
Nope - you were right - no enjoyment to be had there.
The video was awful - just awful. No humor, simple graphics, nothing creative at all. Made yesterday's clip shot with the Trans-Siberian Orchestra look like high art. Surprisingly weak video from the ASV crowd.
Eddy Dec 16th 2008 2:48PM
Yeah, that's... no, that was terrible.