John Carpenter was originally offered the chance to direct, but also wanted a say in the writing, musical score, and final cut of the film. This costume is perfect for all staff Christmas nights out or even if you are having a laugh with friends and family over the festive period, but please keep away from all lit objects like candles or cigarettes and shape object too! Do not use the Santa suit close to any sharp objects which could cause damage to the suit at any time. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This production suffered from several issues, most notably a master which had been subjected to heavy noise reduction resulting in a loss of sound quality.

Simply step into this costume and turn on the air-inflating fan to get ready for the party (requires 4 x AA batteries, not included). Dudley Moore was the Salkinds' top choice to play the lead elf in the film, Ilya Salkind having remembered a scene in Arthur in which Liza Minnelli's character asks Moore if he is Santa's Little Helper. At the time of the film's announcement in mid-1983, the British Press carried reports that diminutive actors such as David Jason, Patrick Troughton and Norman Wisdom would be cast alongside Moore as fellow elves, but none of them were. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page.Lead elf Dooley explains that their coming was prophesied; that it is Claus' destiny to deliver the toys made by the elves to the children of the world; and that they, like the elves, will live forever. His reasons include weak plot, garish production design, blatant product placement (particularly for McDonald's, though Coke and Pabst Blue Ribbon are also prominent), and scenery-chewing overacting on the part of Lithgow. The traditional red coat and trouser design has a printed white trim to the coat edge and black belt. When the toys produced by Patch's machine fall apart on Christmas Day, he resigns in disgrace and leaves the North Pole, winding up in New York City.

plans to take Towzer and their money and flee to Brazil, letting Patch take the fall for their dangerous product. In the end, Mercury turned down the project, stating that he felt that Queen had become overcrowded with requests to work on film soundtracks; as a result, Sheena Easton was ultimately chosen to record the tune. It depicts the origin of Santa Claus (played by Huddleston), and his modern-day adventure to save one of his elves (Moore) who has been manipulated by an unscrupulous toy company executive (Lithgow). Patch wins by designing a machine to increase production through automation, but unbeknownst to him it begins to malfunction and produce shoddy toys. Duralde ultimately concludes that the film is "a train-wreck of a Christmas film that's so very wrong that you won't be able to tear yourself away from it".

He and Joe take off for the North Pole in his flying car with the candy canes loaded in the trunk, unaware that they are becoming unstable. Be a viral sensation with our global smash, the inflatable T-Rex costume, channel your inner princess with our unicorn Ride On outfit or gobble up the competition as a man-eating shark. S. box office success of 1983's Superman III and its immediate follow-up, 1984's Supergirl, Santa Claus: The Movie was directed by Supergirl director Jeannot Szwarc, from a story by David and Leslie Newman (though David Newman took sole screenplay credit). The only praise he had for the film's acting was for John Lithgow, who Canby wrote "(gave) the film's only remotely stylish performance".