At 2 hours long, it's about 20 minutes too long. The film flounders a while in the opening act, is pretty long-winded in the 2nd act, but it almost redeems itself in the 3rd act with a scene loaded with cameos, and Kevin Spacey like you'd never think you'd ever see him given his recent film work. The special effects stuck out like a sore thumb (popping normal-sized actor's faces on elf-statured actors, and the flying sleigh sequences). I didn't feel too much brotherly chemistry between Vince Vaughn and Paul Giamatti (the hand prostetics were a little too much, very distracting).
I give it 2 stars, or a grade of C (for Claus)
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