Sometimes, if you highlight a movie on Tubi it will autoplay a scene if you leave the cursor on it for too long. Usually, you just go about your business and move right along looking for a movie to watch. Sometimes, the scene is so bonkers you just have to watch it in disbelief. Sometimes, you even find yourself watching the film itself, even if it’s not something you’d ordinarily would want to see. Such was the case with Santa’s Got Style.
The scene selection in question features a handsome male model in a Santa beard, coiffed white hair, and designer suit walking into a department store in slow motion accompanied by a terrible rap song. As he walks through the aisles, women stop dead in their tracks and salivate at the sight of him. This scene alone was so funny that I decided I had to watch it in its proper context. I mean, I’m a sucker for a stupid Christmas movie, especially this time of year. Sad to say, the rest of the flick didn’t live up to this silly, but admittedly genuinely funny moment. That said, it’s still far from the worst low budget Christmas movie you could waste your time on this holiday season.
Kathryn (Planes, Trains, and Christmas Trees) Davis stars as Madison, the head of a department store who gets the missive from her superiors to create a new, hip, handsome “Stylin’ Santa” for their Christmas publicity campaign. She reaches out to her friend Ethan (Well Suited for Christmas’ Franco Lo Presti), a former male model who runs a modeling agency, to find a handsome, stylish, Santa Claus. When he can’t find any guys to fit the bill, he decides, as a joke, to put on a beard and show up anonymously as “Stylin’ Santa”. Predictably, Madison loves the idea and wants him to head the campaign. Since she has no idea it’s him, Ethan gives her a fake name and soon, he wows the ladies into coming into the store and maxing out their credit cards.
Predictably, Ethan has the hots for Madison, but is afraid to tell her for fear of ruining their friendship. Predictably, Madison falls in love with “Stylin’ Santa”, unaware it’s her friend behind the beard. Predictably… ah hell you can figure it out for yourself.
Most of this is lame and obvious. (Yes, there’s a scene where Ethan and “Stylin’ Santa” have to be at the same function at the same time.) The big exception is the aforementioned slow-motion scene of “Stylin’ Santa” making all the ladies hot and bothered. (Tubi really knew what scene to showcase for their autoplay menu.) There’s a certain charm and a level of basic competence here, and I’m sure that alone will win over fans of low-budget sub-Hallmark Channel Christmas movies. It definitely won’t win over any new fans to the genre, but it’s just silly enough to make for amiable background noise while you’re wrapping presents or entertaining guests at Christmastime.
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