Nice enough. The art design looks good, though the direction took me a long time to get used to as it was always using some big camera move or weird angle or deep focus, it was a little suffocating and felt like the energy was going there rather than into the character animation. Also, the character design could be a little bland. The story was pretty thin, too, being mostly a step by step origin story with some shallow romance and conflict stuck on.
Look, basically, it's no Emperor's New Groove.
For parents wondering whether it has a safe 'Santa is real' stance: it spends the entire movie showing mundane/coincidental reasons for how kids came up with the legend of Santa from a real human guy, and then in the last two minutes it goes "and then for no reason he turns magic and all that stuff is actually true now". So technically it does end up saying Santa is totally real, but it's a weird 'eat your cake and have it' approach and might end up confusing kids anyway. So that combined with the issues it has as a movie leads me to recommend just watching How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966) again. Then if you can get away with it at Christmas, Emperor's New Groove and The Iron Giant again.
Rating: Bad
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