âSanta Girlâ is a great holiday flick thatâs charm and performances make up for the lack of depth.
A 2019 Netflix original, âSanta Girlâ stars Jennifer Stone as Cassandra Claus â the daughter of the big guy â who grows tired of her magical life at the North Pole and decides to enroll in college for a chance to meet new people.
Yes, it plays off as corny as it sounds, but in a holiday mushy feel it works. Jennifer Stone is a mesmerizing character on screen. She possesses a contagious smile and a certain genuine quality that makes us actually believe Cassandra is a typical girl who longs for something more. âThey want you with the beard and the red suit.â She complains to her father. âThey donât want some Santa girl.â Roll credits!
âSanta Girlâ includes some great characters and acting performances. Legendary Barry Bostwick plays Santa Claus; not in the typical appearance as this incarnation is dressed in a dapper suit and avoids cookies to watch his figure. He runs Christmas like a business, and has some pretty funny lines as he meets with various other characters, like the antagonistic Jack Frost (Hank Stone) a character actor who youâll go crazy wondering where it is you know him from.
Cassandra Claus aside, my Favorite Character Award goes to Pep (McKayla Witt) who plays an overly jovial elf that accompanies Cassandra to college. I wonât pretend to know McKayla Witt from anything else, but she fits the role of an always bubbly and easily fooled elf flawlessly.
âSanta Girlâ is a straight fantasy, as all the primary characters have magical powers, and seemingly no need for trivial things like money of college degrees. Cassandra obviously meets a normal guy (Devon Werkheiser) fellow student who she has a romantic connection with and itâs the type of pairing youâll find believable and adorable. All the things we look for when watching a movie like this.
âSanta Girlâ is a fun film that you need to watch this holiday season. Probably more than once.
