This is a director who makes a specialty of bitter anti-social oddballs. (Crumb drew the " American Splendor" comic books about Harvey Pekar, his equal in misanthropy.) Zwigoff also directed the quirky " Ghost World," with its unlikely romantic alliance between a teenage girl ( Thora Birch) and a sour 40-ish recluse ( Steve Buscemi).
Crumb, the cartoonist who is a devoted misanthrope. He made the great documentary " Crumb," about R.
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But I didn't like this movie merely because it was weird and different I liked it because it makes no compromises and takes no prisoners. Movie critics have been accused of praising weirdo movies because we are bored by movies that seem the same. When was the last time you saw a movie Santa kicking a department store reindeer to pieces? Or using the f-word more than Eddie Griffin? Or finding a girlfriend who makes him wear his little red hat in bed because she has a Santa fetish? And for that matter, when was the last movie where a loser Santa meets a little kid, and the kid doesn't redeem the loser with his sweetness and simplicity, but attaches himself like those leeches on Bogart in "The African Queen"? There are certain unwritten parameters governing mainstream American movies, and "Bad Santa" violates all of them.
You expect a happy ending, but the ending is happy in the same sense that a man's doctors tell him he lost his legs but they were able to save his shoes. He's a foul-mouthed, unkempt, drunken louse at the beginning of the movie and sticks to that theme all the way through.
"Bad Santa" is a demented, twisted, unreasonably funny work of comic kamikaze style, starring Billy Bob Thornton as Santa in a performance that's defiantly uncouth.
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