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I mean, it's not winning any awards, but the movie is pretty adorably silly. The laughs are consistent enough, and Jack Black as Satan with a heart of bronze is inspired, if not on the nose, casting.

The rest of the cast knows exactly what kind of film they're in, and all of them are having a good time being in a Farrelly brothers flick. Think more along the lines of a Shallow Hal, which also stared Jack Black, in terms of tone and cadence of jokes.

Some pacing issues towards the end aside, Dear Santa does not over stay it's welcome. It's a goofy Christmas movie for anyone who doesn't take the holiday too seriously.

I'm a huge nerd who can enjoy something mid-tier if it's entertaining enough, but this film is bad even if you ignore the toxicity of Ezra. I had to fight the urge to look at my phone multiple times during the 2+ hour run time. The first half of this movie is tragically boring, and the second half devolves into a CGI mess of misplaced fanservice shoveled in by the truckload that makes very little sense. I'll never understand how WB, in all their wisdom, can't get it right. They could literally use the animated DC-verse as a template and just put real actors into those scripts, but instead they release these dumpster fires of cinema on us and expect a thank you. Not even from this Keaton fanboy.

I'm so very sorry if you paid to see this, it wasn't even worth the points I spent to see it free.

You can't watch a Bay film and critique it using normal is-it-good parameters, but boy was this a hard one to get through, even by those metrics. I enjoy some good Bayhem, but whoever gave him a camera drone needs to be fired. The script is straight up bonkers. Jake Gyllenhaal is having a complete blast. The movie doesn't so much end as it just stops. And whatever happened to Trent, the Birkenstock wearing crew member after he gets bumped by the car? If this review sounds a bit disconnected, you've got a good idea what to expect from Ambulance.