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The main plot point I do not understand

posted 12 years ago by crazyj89
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Granted I only caught the first and last half of this movie on cable... but -- WHO, specifically, is conducting the audit on Santa? Are we supposed to believe that the mass creation and giving away of toys by elves and one man in one night is a corporate venture, subject to such things? That's what made no sense to me. In other films, I believe I've seen it where Santa is for some reason running out of 'funds' or some such thing so he's in danger of 'going out of business' but an audit? Really?

(I'd like to note that this is meant to be more sarcastic than a real complaint. I know it's just a movie! Kids don't even understand what an audit is!!)

[–] JR541 12 years ago

I'm confused. If you caught the first and last half doesn't that mean you saw the whole movie? Anyway I think it was that Spacey's character had a personal vendetta against Santa Claus.

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[–] TheFatDruidofNacyl 11 years ago

I was wondering about this as well, plus how did Santa have all that money to give to his brother, as well as buy his mom expensive gifts. I have decided that in this universe, he gets royalties from using his image or likeness for products. The other holiday characters started doing the same thing so there was a corporation developed. Power was given over to the corporation to make those decisions and why he could get fired from his own job. Kind of like when a successful private company goes corporate and the origional owner can actually be forced out of a job.

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[–] adam-greenwood 9 years ago

Like Jurassic Park's John Hammond? In the second movie he talks about the board taking control of INGEN away from him... And yeah, I did wonder why Santa was rich too!

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[–] robertmichel 11 years ago

Here's another question.
If Spacey's character tore up the children's letters, which is a decidedly naughty thing to do, why didn't that show up on the snow globe? (It showed Fred Claus stamp every file "nice", so it does not only apply to kids.)
That way, they could prove the second strike was not Claus' wrong-doing, call the negative report incorrect, and carry on with their Santa business.

[–] jamasian_man 10 years ago

At that moment, they did not know that Clyde was the one doing it. Everyone assumed Fred messed up because he's the new guy and he was Clyde's patsy.

Then when the third strike is given, it was Fred who stamped all the naughty kids as nice, so at that moment they assumed Fred caused all three strikes.

AS for the kid's letters who got shredded, those were only the letters. They could have an elf cross check who isn't scheduled to get a present to due to being on the naughty list, and then just send them all a mass amount of baseball bats and hula hoops.

So the kids who had their letters shredded ended up getting a baseball bat or a hula hoop.

[–] JohnnyCastle 9 years ago

So you find that ridiculous but Fred riding a sleigh led by reindeer to deliver presents us totally believable. lol ok

[–] saybow69 8 years ago

Ya made up workd even has its limits. Spacey character made NO SENSE! Can't just make up anything. Lol. Ya his role could have been written better by a 5 year old.