The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus (2000) [DVD]

I had been looking for that movie finally found, just sad 😥 that had to purchase it through Prime video! But it's ok my first time

From what I've read it's a little known animated movie that I only saw once as a kid. I couldn't find it streaming anywhere so I decided to buy it and I'm so happy I did. I'm in my 30's and get to share it with my kids now. They loved it and its got such a nostalgic animation style. It's a great buy if you have little ones and want a unique version of the Santa story. I highly recommend this.

This is a classic tale and I don't know why it's been so hard to find, but I'm so glad Amazon Prime finally had it!The story on why/how the man Santa Claus became immortal.

My brother and I are sssooooo happy this movie finally came out on DVD! We've been looking for a copy of this movie since we first saw it on Cartoon Network--- which was a VERY long time ago. So we've been searching for years with no luck. I saw the VHS on Amazon, but it is way too much money for an outdated viewing format... plus my brother and I want to keep this treasure for a LONG time. That's how important this film was to us.Every so often I would check around to see if it was finally available, and this time around it was! I texted my brother, who is away at college, "Guess what I found?" His immediate response was, "Life and Adventures of Santa Claus?!?!?" I was floored that he guessed on the first try. He told me that if I had said no he would be really sad. He is 21 years old! I'm 22.This movie became our own special tradition (usually our parents are involved, but not this time), and we would always sit and watch it on Christmas Eve after dinner but before Midnight mass when it played on CN. When they changed their Christmas lineup, we were sad and disappointed. We searched the channels and looked in stores but couldn't find it. We regretted not taping it off the TV.I guess the point to my story is, you won't be sorry getting this movie. It is about good will, kindness, and generosity. It will bring your family together and seem magical to your kids (even if they're preteens, which is when my brother and I discovered it). While looking for this film, we found the Rankin/Bass version, and HATED it. This is so much more beautiful, the animation is wonderful and the story doesn't come across as clunky as the R/B version. I feel for these characters and their issues... but the R/B version makes me care less. The biggest difference is the great Ack or Ark (I can't remember, it's been so long); R/B's is very cruel, while this version he is very sympathetic.Please get this movie, you'll love it!

My husband is a huge fan of Santa Clause. He absolutely loves this movie!

We had this movie on VHS tape. It was one of the few I wanted to replace and keep. It is such an unusual explanation of the origin of Santa Claus, based off a book by L. Frank Baum (Author of the Wizard of Oz) and my kids really liked it back when. The book is an excellent Christmas read, almost an adventure story. It clearly puts Santa Claus into a different realm of fantasy, but retains the values of kindness and generosity. This story is completely divorced from the tenuous religious connection of Santa Claus to St. Nicholas yet has an explanation for all his supernatural powers. It's actually a relief to have an alternate secular explanation for Santa Claus that is such a good story. It is a very hard movie to find. The animation was much worse than I remembered, but all our exposure to CGI and advanced animation techniques makes us judge older stuff more harshly. The story line seemed not as coherent after I had read the book, but it's way, way better than a lot of other more well known Christmas favorites. Everyone was happy to see this come into the house as the tape had seen better days , yet the story was still one of our favorites. I was worried about the quality as it was an "add on" dvd item, but it played perfectly. Someday we will have to try the claymation version.

like the headline it just very nostalgic

**Review is not so much about the movie, more about how excited that I found it*How can one easily describe the moment when you find that hidden gem that has been forgotten after all these years... Oh yeah, this is that GEM! It would be to long of a story to tell you how many years I spent looking for this movie through talks with friends and family. Asking them, "have you ever watched the movie where Santa Claus was raised by faires and then lived in a log cabin in the woods with his friend that looked like a monkey. In was on Cartoon Network one year?" Then the answer would be the same, "What?"Well folks long story short, this is Zen. The movie in itself is not award winning nor the best written, but it has a lot of charm and spirit. The movie I once saw in the early 2000's was a great fantasy of Old ST Nick that was very gripping and fun to watch, but with age the once lovable story seems to ring hollow on a man that is criticizing its writing.... Then it happened a second watch with my 4 year old niece who's emotions and reactions to Santa Claus were fulfilling in themselves.This second play through with her actually makes me think of the first time I watched it and how I should look at kids movies/shows through the eyes of a child instead of the narcissistic and cynical old man I will become. Overall the self gratification of finding the movie that everybody thought I made up and the hopes that I can cherish this movie with my nieces and nephews, and someday my own kids, is worth owning.