In honour of the far too rapidly approaching Christmas season, and inspired by Elf (man, Jon Favreau has really gone downhill since Swingers), I'm starting a list of bad Christmas movies, some of which will no doubt be making an appearance on TBS later this week:

- Jingle All The Way, starring Arnold The Governor and Sinbad, two years after Houseguest and maybe six months before his retreat to obscurity and occasional appearances on Hollywood Squares, as bad dads who waited 'til Christmas Eve to go looking for the It Toy of the moment.
- The Santa Clause. 'Nuff said.
- Moving down the list of Home Improvement alumni, there's I'll Be Home for Christmas. The scmaltzy tagline says it all: Somewhere between L.A. and N.Y. Jake found the meaning of Christmas. Hopefully he found it right before dying in a fiery car crash.
- They may not technically be Christmas movies, but the pair of "reincarnated as a snowman" movies, both coincidentally titled Jack Frost, deserve mention here. One of the snowmen is a bad dad given a second chance to be a good father and the other one is a serial killer out for vengeance. They should have combined these two and had the snowdad snap and go on a killing spree.
- Ernest Saves Christmas. The IMDB user comments say it's an excellent Ernest movie, which really isn't saying much.
- Possibly the best bad Christmas movie ever, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. How can anything starring Jamie Farr and a young Pia Zadora be bad?