Dumb, dull, and boring.
I hate to say things about a kids' film, especially one dealing with St. Nick, but this movie, regardless of how well produced, is poor as can be.
Sugary, not very smart (in fact downright dumb as hell), I can't help b think that the powers that were that produced this thing were thinking of making strictly a kids' film.
Perfect hair, perfect clothes, shcmaltzy kids and setting, there is nothing grounding this film, not even the vaunted courtroom sequences.
Unlike Siskel and Ebert I would not give this movie two thumbs up. I would rip a page out of Robert Townsend's sendup of the two reviewers, and give this movie "da finga!".
No serious high-fives for this film. Predictable sugary fluff. I could have shot a better film.