During all my childhood I wasn't allowed to watch any kind of Holiday movies. Or celebrate for that matter. I didn't see this movie until I was older now I have kids. This one for sure shows the true meaning of Christmas. If I am to explain to my kids about Santa, this movie is the best for that.For most holiday movies I seen.This one is the best. Not only it is full of beauty, colorful, well done for clay animation, the story and characters are great! The singing and the meaning behind it all is wonderful put together. This one brings the magic and spirit of Christmas. Hope it comes out on DVD soon. I missed it last year on TV. So bummed it wasn't on. I want it in my collection.

This is the most...unique...yeah that's a good word...unique take on the Santa Claus myth ever, I'll say in all existence. This story actually came from the scribe of the novel version of the Wizard of Oz, and has Santa...who was known then just as Claus, raised by immortal fairy folk, lead by the Great Ak, who looks like Odin of Norse Mythology and has a silver axe that shoots lasers, and cared for by a mountain lion...yeah you just read that right. The story follows Santa from his adoption into the fairy folks world to his last days as a mortal, where is invents toys... yes that is right Claus invented toys people... and he needed to defend himself from the evil Agwas, a band of weird demons who hate children and toys, even though Claus invented them only like 30 years prior. You also find out that Claus' reindeer are not his, but borrowed every year from the fairly folk, and they don't fly, they just jump REALLY far. It is like I said a unique take on the story, and one that has to be watched at least once. It's very random, and dear God is in inaccurate compared to most of the Santa origins, I do not condone drug use... but this must be great to watch high, but it is still one of those Christmas Classics a lot of people enjoy watching.

While this does contain many of the elements of a typical Rankin/Bass animated special, it is by far more bizarre than I could've ever imagined. To give you an idea of how "out there" this show is, I missed only the first two minutes of the cartoon and I had NO IDEA that it was supposed to be a story about Santa Claus until the last two minutes of the show. It has nymphs, gods, demons... all that you wouldn't expect in a Christmas special. And what's funny is whenever I try and describe this show to people, they don't believe me at all."No, seriously, the Great Ak then grabs this ax and challenges the demons to fight." "Whatever." "And Santa has this lion and he goes to the arctic with a magician and..." "You're full of it." "I'm not! It's true! You have to see it!"The cartoon starts off weird and just gets more and more bizarre the farther you go in. If you're high, I guarantee that you will be enthralled and laugh all the way through. All I can say is that it is messed up and I can't really described exactly how messed up it is. No one would really get it or like it or think that it is great by any stretch of the imagination. Watch it if you are extremely high or you are curious or a Rankin/Bass fan, like me. Otherwise, your best bet would be to stick to the better Christmas specials.

I have watched this movie since i was little, and for all i do admit the subject and the themes used in the movie are slightly darker then the average kids movie, it is one of the best i have seen. I've always loved the entire premiose of the story, and the characters are brilliant, especially the Commander of the Wind Daemons (The Bat like Creature) and Blinky the Cat.