In this French Netflix festive(-ish) comedy/drama offering, an undercover cop ditches Christmas with his young daughter for yet another drugs-related mission, so Santa puts him inside his daughter's favourite Christmas movie, body-swapping with the film's mild-mannered father, to teach him important lessons about the season and the importance of family. The movie-within-the-movie and the body-swap elements are handled reasonably well, but the Christmas theme is incidental at best. The comedy is very broad, simple and not especially funny, like the characters and script in general, but the more adult references and story elements jar somewhat with the more upbeat wholesome family tale at its heart, making the film fall awkwardly between young and adult audiences and probably not really satisfying either. The film tries its best, but with its cheap-looking TV aesthetic it limps along in an underpowered fashion to its Blades Of Glory-esque finale and inevitable ending.
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