- when
- 24 Dec 2023, 10:25 pm
- film
- Jingle All the Way
- source
- Mastodon
- blurb
- Howard Langston, a salesman for a mattress company, is constantly kept busy at his job, disappointing his son. After he misses his son's karate exposition, Howard vows to make it up to him by buying an action figure of his son's favorite television hero for Christmas. Unfortunately for Howard, it is Christmas Eve, and every store is sold out of Turbo Man. Now, Howard must travel all over town and compete with everybody else to find a Turbo Man action figure.
thoughts
Man what a ridiculous film. It had everything from a consumerist commentaries to Santa brawls and terrible parenting to superhero fights. I think the only character arc is the kid, Arnie just failed upwards (literally in a jetpack!) #Review