Critical Consensus: "Arnold Schwarzenegger tries his best, but Jingle All the Way suffers from an uneven tone, shifting wildly from a would-be satire on materialism to an antic, slapstick yuk-fest." Why Its Wrong: Critics seem to have rubbished Jingle All the Way as another saccharine family flick without digging deep into its outrageous satire of the whole genre. It's not just a send-up of the madness of the season, but a welcome rebuke to all those bland Christmas movies, veiled relatively well beneath the conventional style and tone of a holiday flick. It's not one of Arnold's best, but his chemistry with Sinbad is hilarious, and watching Ahnuld damn-near giving himself a coronary in order to procure a toy for his whiny brat son "Chamie" (Jake Lloyd) makes for a perversely entertaining statement on the season to be jolly. Why The Critics Hated It: It's a Christmas movie, so there's a good chance the critics were gunning for it from the outset, and it came during Arnie's post-T2 slump, which absolutely didn't help. Perhaps some critics couldn't accept that a movie so silly on the surface could actually have a single smart, satirical bone in its body, and as such believed that any intellect was unintentional.