We are then treated to a montage of Santa Claus delivering toys to all the “children of the world” over the centuries, though as the dates climb closer and closer to modern times I start to doubt the veracity of the demands for just dolls and wooden toys. They’re all just waiting for the comet to come and take them away.
Sounds more like a cult than a magical workshop. Some poor schnook and his wife get caught out in a storm, are saved/resurrected by some creepy elves, and then told that they will now be working in the toy delivery business for all of eternity because of some prophecy. Claus is told that he is to deliver these gifts to all the children of the world, and when he mentions the feasibility of such a task being accomplished by a man his age he is told that he will now live…forever. In this film, we find out that the elves have been making toys for ages – possibly centuries – but with no one to deliver them, they’ve just been stockpiling them until The Chosen One from the prophecy would arrive. When one delves too deeply into the how and the wherefore of Santa Claus things are going to get weird, it’s just best to explain as little as possible and get your plot moving along as quickly as you can, sadly that is not the case here. They are led to their new home at the North Pole where they are informed by the Ancient Elf ( Burgess Meredith) that Claus is “The Chosen One” and that he will fulfill the duties of the Prophecy. Claus, his wife, and reindeer all wake up (resurrected?) as a group of colourfully dressed little people approach. The Northern Star appears and a magical cone of light descends on the frozen countryside, and out of it steps a large contingent of elves. This is a pretty dark way to start your Christmas movie. The storm intensifies and soon their reindeer collapses in exhaustion, as the snow whips around them, and Claus embraces his wife as the winter storm takes their lives.
After giving out wonderfully hand-carved toys to the children he and his wife Anya ( Judy Cornwell) bid their friends goodbye, as they have more stops to make, and even though the weather is getting bad they can’t even think of disappointing the children who live on the other side of the forest. Many are impressed that Claus can cut wood for the whole village and still have time to carve all the wooden toys he provides each year, but it’s his love for the children that makes all this possible.
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The movie starts out promising enough, as we pan down from a starry sky to a snowy Scandinavian landscape and quaint cottage full of people eagerly awaiting the arrival of their beloved friend Uncle Claus ( David Huddleston), a kindly man who bring toys for all the children. As genres go Christmas movies are sadly more miss than hit, for every Miracle on 34th Street we get a dozen films like Santa Claus Conquerors the Martian, and in 1985 the men who brought us Superman: The Movie decided to take a stab at the Christmas movie, and with Supergirl director Jeannot Szwarc at the helm that’s exactly what we got…stabbed.
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