Film Review – Dashing Through the Snow

“Dashing Through the Snow” is a new contender for holiday perennial viewing, with this tale of a stranded Santa and his Scrooge-like companion aiming to deliver seasonal tingles and sizable laughs for viewers ready to devour Christmas entertainment. The screenplay is credited to Scott Rosenberg, who long ago did memorable work with “Beautiful Girls” and “High Fidelity,” but recently found his way to fortune with the “Jumanji” sequels and “Venom.” Rosenberg is definitely not at his best with “Dashing Through the Snow,” conjuring a mostly generic study of holiday adventuring, and one that’s strikingly similar at times to 2018’s “The Christmas Chronicles,” hitting the same beats of discovery and music. Director Tim Story doesn’t help the cause, overseeing a few charisma-free performances and a general lethargy to a tale that’s meant to inspire audience investment in Santa’s survival. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com