YouHeart I gave it a 7.5 out of 10

Jenna Walter The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Celia A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Sam Panico If that doesn't make sense, you haven't seen this.This is the kind of film David Lynch dreams that he could make. Alejandro Jodorowsky lives in abject terror of its unholy power. You should have to wear some kind of protective brain plate when you watch this.

edrpz I saw this when I was a kid and remember it being one of the worst movies ever. Many year later, someone I knew found a copy on a VHS tape and we watched. It confirmed what I knew as a child, this is a very bad movie. Why this thing was ever made to begin with is one question left to be answered? Why it was put on video is another. ALL copies should be destroyed to save the world from this travesty.

Wizard-8 I feel that I should mention that when I got a hold of the DVD for this movie, I decided to watch it with the "Rifftrax" audio track on, which was done by several ex-members of the cult show MST3K. I'm glad I watched it that way, because not only is the comic commentary very funny, I could see that I would have been in serious pain watching the movie as it was originally intended even if I had been at the age of the movie's target audience. Wow, is this movie bad! It's unbelievably cheap, slow, and technically inept. And while the movie has the title "Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny", Santa just appears in the opening twenty or so minutes and the closing ten minutes, and the Ice Cream Bunny only shows up in the last five minutes! Most of the movie is in fact devoted to telling the story of Thumbelina, using footage originally shot for another kiddie matinée flick that was just as cheap, slow, and technically inept as the newly shot footage. I can't see that kids even back in 1972 going for this movie, certainly not more sophisticated kids from today. In short, you should only watch this movie if you have the Rifftrax option - otherwise, prepare for your brain to melt a little during your viewing experience.

geminiredblue Several months ago, I received a DVD of this from RiffTrax. I popped it into my player and wondered those five deadly words "How bad could it be?" To sum up in one word... AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Every single second of this movie is guaranteed to hurt. The story: Santa inexplicably winds up in Florida and his sleigh is stuck in the sand. The reindeer have all flown back to the North Pole where a bunch of children dressed as elves sing and make more toys, despite the fact that Santa's nowhere to be found. Meanwhile back in Florida, how is Santa going to get himself out of this dilemma? By using his magic to call out to all children in the immediate area, some have names and others are simply called "girls" or even "kid" in one case. And from literary history, Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer show up on a raft. How they suddenly got transported from the Mississippi River to off the coast of Florida, I'll leave up to your imagination. But what can the kids do? They bring various animals to try and help pull out Santa's sleigh, but none of them can do it. Usually while this is happening, Santa remains seated in his sleigh, the actor sweating under his fake beard and red suit. So what does Santa do next? Tells all the children the story of Thumbellina. And that's where the movie takes its most excruciating turn. For close to an hour, we're treated to that horrible story. We have a normal-looking girl surrounded by actors dressed in unconvincing frog, mole and some-kind-of insect suits. Oh, did I mention that the director mistook this for a musical?! Excuse me another moment... AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The songs are, quite frankly, awful! So once the Thumbellina padding, I mean sub-story, has ended we're left with the last ten minutes. At this point, I'm guessing the director realized he had to wrap this fiasco up. How will Santa possibly get out of his situation? Who could possibly help him? SIREN WAILS! What's that? Why, it's an old-time firetruck. And who's that onboard? Why, it's the Ice Cream Bunny with all the children! Yay, the other character who shares the title has finally arrived! As one of my friends put it, he's the Ice Cream Bunny Machina. How he helps Santa, I couldn't figure out. He just arrives, nods disturbingly for what seems like forever, and then Santa gets into the firetruck and they take off leaving the kids behind. Then the sleigh disappears. THE END. Please, please, please gentle viewer hear my plea. Avoid this movie if RiffTrax isn't doing it. However if RiffTrax has graced your presence, then Merry Christmas to you all and down some spiked eggnog for good measure!!!