'Bad Santa 2' a Sign of American Culture's Race to the Bottom
By Bill Donohue | November 25, 2016 | 8:57 AM EST
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It's a hard call which is worse: Bad Santa 2 or its juvenile fans. By any measure, the movie, and its reception in many quarters, is proof positive that American culture is witnessing a race to the bottom.
When the first Bad Santa was released in 2003, I described Santa as a "chain-smoking, drunken, foul-mouthed, suicidal, sexual predator. He is shown soiling himself in Santa's chair, vomiting in alleys, having sex with a woman bartender in a car, and performing anal sex on a huge woman in a dressing room."
The sequel is just as immature. The script was written by Johnny Rosenthal and Shauna Cross, two geniuses who never outgrew their adolescence—or learned how to write. Don’t take my word for it.
Nick Schager, writing for The Playlist.net, notes the "narrative purposelessness" of the film. Similarly, Colin Covert of the Chicago Tribune says "the plot is so muddled it seems to have been stitched together from the dregs of multiple ditched drafts."
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