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FilmPG-132024
Dear Santa
Directed by Bobby Farrelly
Likeable 6th grader Liam writes to Santa asking him to prove that he's real. But Liam is dyslexic and accidentally sends his letter to Satan instead, who shows up at Liam's house, excited to have his first fanboy letter and wanting a little of Liam's soul. From TMDB
216 reactions from 3 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Sep 12, 2026 · last updated Oct 14, 2026 · How this works
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Dear Santa is a 2024 comedy fantasy film, directed by Bobby Farrelly, starring Jack Black, Robert Timothy Smith and Keegan-Michael Key.
- 206 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy
- posts span Nov 25, 2023 to Sep 12, 2026
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60 of 216 · most liked firstThat Jack Black movie "Dear Santa" looks like a fake movie that would've had a trailer at the beginning of Tropic Thunder.
neutral · AI labelView post →2025 Razzie Award Winners: Madame Web, Megalopolis, Joker 2, Unfrosted. # Worst Picture - Borderlands - Joker: Folie à Deux - **Madame Web (WINNER)** - Megelopoljs - Reagan # Worst Actor - Jack Black / *Dear Santa* - Zachary Levi / *Harold and the Purple Crayon* - Joaquin Phoenix / *Joker: Folie à Deux* - Dennis Quaid / *Reagan* - **Jerry Seinfeld / *Unfrosted* (WINNER)** # Worst Actress - Cate Blanchett / *Borderlands* - Lady Gaga / *Joker: Folie à Deux* - Bryce Dallas Howard / *Argylle* -…
neutral · AI labelView post →I watched that Dear Santa movie with Jack Black and it dealt me 4D10 psychic damage
negative · AI labelView post →Watching Dear Santa Kid: are you telling me I can wish for anything in the whole wide world? Satan: yeah. I mean within reason. I can’t undo the ear of 1812. Kid: what’s the war of 1812? Me: how dare you!? Satan: it was a war… in 1812 🗃️#HATM
neutral · AI labelView post →If you want a funny and good movie to watch I highly recommend Dear Santa starring Jack Black!🤣🤣🤣🤣
positive · AI labelView post →Apparently there's a new Christmas movie called Dear Santa where a kid accidentally does a lil typo and writes a letter to Satan instead. And Satan is played by Jack Black. I need to see it.
neutral · AI labelView post →LMFAO over the last two minutes of that Jack Black “Dear Santa” movie for making a real choice at the end there. boxd.it/7U6Bvx
positive · AI labelView post →Dear Santa, For Christmas I'd like there to be one - just one - indie film distributor who isn't completely corrupt or ineffective. C'mon. I've been a good boy! Reasonably, anyway. Enjoy the cookies, Paul
neutral · AI labelView post →Dear Santa Trailer #1 (2024).
neutral · AI labelView post →It should come as no surprise that “Dear Santa” is a terrible movie — you almost have to be trying to render Jack Black this unfunny — but it’s also one of the most tonally bizarre things I’ve ever scene. I cannot imagine who they thought they were making it for.
negative · AI labelView post →Watched 2 new Christmas movies so far this season. Dear Santa - Great premise, terrible execution. imo it's a total miss. Red One - the trailers looked like standard, tired self-aware humor, but the actual movie plays the premise shockingly straight. Liked it way more than I expected. Fun time.
negative · AI labelView post →We watched Dear Santa, the new Jack Black Christmas movie this weekend. DO NOT MAKE THIS MISTAKE. its absolute trash. The fact that Post Malone being in it is the least objectionable thing is a testament to how much this movie sucks. It actually made me angry. Its Leonard Part VI level trash
negative · AI labelView post →Anyone seen dear Santa yet? Its an absolute cracker of a movie, I'd highly recommend. #dearsanta #jackblack
positive · AI labelView post →We're watching "Dear Santa", a streaming-only Christmas movie starring Jack Black. Oh, lordy: it's bad. The premise: dyslexic kid writes a Father Christmas letter accidentally addressed to "dear Satan". Satan (Black) appears, grants him three wishes. "Be in a good movie" is not one of them.
negative · AI labelView post →I think after quitting partway through 2 terrible movies earlier ( Dear Santa, Joker 2 ) and also wasting an hour breaking everything I've earned my xmas horror movie tonight to be fucking ~Gremlins~.
negative · AI labelView post →Ummm… Dear Santa totally worth a watch. Essentially a hallmark movie with Jack blacks hot ass. KGs got a cameo too.
positive · AI labelView post →Dear Santa, all I want for Christmas is a proper Christmas miracle movie but IRL where the authorities are closing in on the healthcare assassin in the finale and it seems like all is lost until every single person in New York steps up to foil the NYPD and he escapes into the sky on Santa's sled YAY
neutral · AI labelView post →Tried watching that Jack Black movie I was so excited for-Dear Santa. Made it like 10 mins. There's 2 things that ruin a movie for me-kids and bad acting. This movie has both. Sigh. Sorry Jack, I tried
negative · AI labelView post →Dear Santa, for Christmas I would love an Aston Macchan movie, Vodka and Scarlet did nothing for three seasons, this would be the perfect opportunity to explore more of their characters while also shining a light on a often overlooked Uma 😔 You're the best! From: Biggest Macchan fan in Brazil.
neutral · AI labelView post →My 6 year-old granddaughter, not wanting to offend the big guy, asks permission to film him tonight. She wrote “Dear Santa. Can I get sum futich uv you. From Phe to Santa” How does she know footage is a film term?
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight we watched "Dear Santa." This movie is a parking lot full of whale vomit.
negative · AI labelView post →so far my favorite movie that came out this year was Wicked, and the worst movie i watched was either Joker 2 or Dear Santa I hate Joker 2 just because of how worthless it was as a movie and Dear Santa is atrocious garbage with one of the grossest endings I've seen in a LONG time
negative · AI labelView post →Bobby Farrelly’s Dear Santa, starring Jack Black, is now streaming on Paramount+ and available for purchase on digital platforms. www.metacritic.com/movie/dear-s... “A great idea that makes for a sub-par movie.” - Benjamin Lee, Guardian
neutral · AI labelView post →the final scene in "Dear Santa" is one of the most deranged things i have ever watched — an unforgivable capstone to perhaps the worst movie i have ever seen
negative · AI labelView post →Dear Santa, For Chrimsms I wish for a boyfrend. I want bf to: *like me *play vidya gems and watch movie wif me :) *like to cuddl *like to hang out with me *NOT PRETEND TO HAVE FEELINGS FOR ME *like penis in butt Thanky
neutral · AI labelView post →Christmas movie update: Dear Santa is hilarious and surprisingly sweet. Also, Jack Black with a grey beard and Ray-Bans looks exactly like my dad
positive · AI labelView post →“I prefer sanity adjacent” ~Satan played by Jack Black in Dear Santa on Paramount. It's a great movie! Omg I LAUGHED, cried, found joy, was corny sometimes but a wonderful movie. I REALLY laughed hard. Post Malone is in it too. There was a twist at the end. I enjoyed the emotional roller coaster.
positive · AI labelView post →#HorrorMoviesForTheHolidays Film 1: Dear Santa (2024) - one of IMDb’s tags is horror which feels like a stretch, but I’ll take it.
neutral · AI labelView post →Dear Santa: all I want for Christmas is a Hallmark Christmas movie set in the Barbie universe
neutral · AI labelView post →Dear Santa, please let this movie turn out to be a pilot for a long-running series. Thank you.
neutral · AI labelView post →Dear Santa, The report you may have received about what I was watching is incorrect. It was a classic movie called "Shock", starring the incredible Vincent Price. There were no naughty moans; They were the troubled groans of a distressed patient! Always a good boy, Elliot B Bunnerton
neutral · AI labelView post →This reminds me of when someone complained about that Jack Black "Dear Santa" movie for prominently featuring Satan in a "kids movie". I pointed out that said movie was actually rated PG-13 and they replied "you don't think teenagers are kids?"
neutral · AI labelView post →There's a movie called "Dear Santa" on TV and why is Jack Black as Satan kinda....... 🥵🥵🥵
neutral · AI labelView post →FUN FACT: This week's movie (Dear Santa, 2011) was directed by Jason Priestley, but it was not the 90210 heart throb's first directorial effort. That distinction goes to Barenaked in America, a rockumentary he made about The Bare Naked Ladies Stunt Tour.
neutral · AI labelView post →Dear Santa, I have been very good and nice. Please give me the Red Sonja movie I deserve.
neutral · AI labelView post →BEST MOVIE STARRING AN ANTI-VAX FREAK: Sonic 3 MOST INSIPID SEQUEL: Despicable Me 4 / Inside Out 2 (tie) BEST MOVIE CO-STARRING POST MALONE: Dear Santa BEST SHITTY CHRISTMAS MOVIE: Red One BEST MOVIE I DID NOT WATCH BUT MY WIFE TELLS ME IT'S LIKE A TALES FROM THE CRYPT EPISODE: The Substance
neutral · AI labelView post →Dear Santa, Please give me a tricycle, an airplane, and a lawyer to help me break my contract to act in this film. #BMovieManiacs
neutral · AI labelView post →That feeling when you *really* dgaf about the movie you’re making: (From the terrible new Jack Black movie, Dear Santa)
negative · AI labelView post →🎅 When I discovered that #DearSanta is a Farrelly Brothers' film... 🤯 'Cos it genuinely feels like a straight-to-DVD movie that somehow managed to rope Jack Black into the mix. ONLY the most ardent Jack Black and/or #Christmas movie fans should waste their time with this! 📽️🎞️
negative · AI labelView post →Dear Santa is one of the in-flight movie options. The xmas movie I didn't know I needed 😂
neutral · AI labelView post →So Dear Santa is a #movie that some people made...I really tried to be as positive as I could be, but man it didn't go well. Check out my #Letterboxd review below. #film #filmsky #moviesky boxd.it/8bUDN7
negative · AI labelView post →Christmas movie line up: Dear Santa 8-Bit Christmas Red One And 27 minutes before midnight Grinch (1966)
neutral · AI labelView post →Started watching Dear Santa and had to turn it off 20 minutes in. I don’t know what it was but everything just felt off from the pacing to the dialogue. It felt like if someone who had never seen a movie tried to make a movie. Partner said it gave him the ick.
negative · AI labelView post →3.5K words of Recommendation for: Samurai Reincarnation Last Straw Juror #2 Ninja vs Shark Ghost Samurai Masked Mutilator Dear Santa #horror #filmsky #movie #review www.patreon.com/posts/recos-...
neutral · AI labelView post →👁SCHEDULE / DEC 9 - DEC 15 ⏰ 5PM CST / UTC-6 👾TUES, WED, FRI: Camellya Story, Dr.STONE song cover art, Genshin exploration w/ friends! 🍿SAT MOVIE: Dear Santa 2024
neutral · AI labelView post →My wife and I decorated our tree last night while watching the super fun new movie DEAR SANTA from my friend @danewen.bsky.social. And I say new, even though he's been trying to get this one made for over a decade. It you want the very definition of "high concept" it is 100% this one.
positive · AI labelView post →My parents put on Dear Santa with Jack black. This movie sucks so hard Their taste in films is shit they never watch anything decent lmao
negative · AI labelView post →For @avclub.com, I reviewed DEAR SANTA. I will watch any old Christmas movie any old time, even the bad ones, but I'm sad to say I hope I never have to watch this one again. www.avclub.com/dear-santa-r...
negative · AI labelView post →New Poster from Paramount + "Dear Santa" movie starring Jack Black #DearSanta
neutral · AI labelView post →Ended up watching 41 Christmas movies and shorts this season. Favorites that were new to me: Cash on Demand (1961), The Lemon Drop Kid (1951), The Disease That Stole Christmas (1995), Blood Beat (1983). The worst, and overall worst film of 2024 that I saw: Dear Santa.
negative · AI labelView post →Dear Santa, this year I want the packing mojo (or magic suitcase) of the female lead of a Hallmark Christmas movie. Girl rolls into town with one compact suitcase, yet has an outfit & shoes for every possible occasion plus at least five winter coats. Please & thank you xo
neutral · AI labelView post →This week on the List of Lists podcast we had Dear Santa, Y2K, and Black Doves on our list before kicking off Russell week with Best Picture winners Gladiator and A Beautiful Mind. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... #filmsky #moviesky
neutral · AI labelView post →This week for the #zombiesteve52 movie challenge to catch up on a 2024 title. Watching Dear Santa on @paramountplus.bsky.social @mda4life.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →📽️🎄 Dear Santa If anyone can explain why this film was made I'd really like to know.
negative · AI labelView post →Dear Santa isn’t the kind of movie you watch with very high expectations, but even by the lowest of low standards it has an ending that is shockingly bad
negative · AI labelView post →Day 4 - Christmas movie marathon. Today's pick was "Dear Santa", a film about an 11-year-old with dyslexia who writes a letter to Santa, only to find... I give it 3 ⭐⭐⭐. Good cast, but it just wasn't that funny or heart-warming. As a picture to see it wouldn't be my first recommendation.
neutral · AI labelView post →New movie - Dear Santa - I am seriously watching this story about a dyslexic boy who writes a letter, "Dear Satan" and Satan shows up, and it's Jack Freaking Black. I will continue watching 👹🎄
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched Dear Santa tonight. It was saccharine, kind of all over the place, and had some pretty glaring plot holes near the end. But! The leading kid was likeable and Jack Black is as good for a laugh as ever. If you're looking for a schmaltzy, silly Christmas movie you could do worse.
neutral · AI labelView post →Dear Satan (not released yet), later renamed Dear Santa, is an unreleased Philippine Christmas horror film directed by RC Delos Reyes under Mavx Productions and stars Paolo Contis and Sienna Stevens. #TheGoreYouKnow #MutantFam @themutantfam.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →70 minutes to DEAR SANTA! Unlike our previous Christmas movie selections, Santa Claus does not actually appear in this movie
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