In one corner, we've got Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, in which aliens kidnap Santa and two American kids in order to bring some joy to depressed Martian kids and possibly kill him. There's also "Dropo" the beer-gutted silly Martian who brings the fake laughter in every character... except the ones trying to shoot Santa out of the air lock.
In the other corner, we've got plan old Santa Clause. This badly dubbed Mexican film attests that Santa lives in space, children stereotypes from all over the world "volunteer" to work for him and that his reindeer are wind-up toys. Oh, and he fights Satan!
Personally, I'm a bigger fan of Mike Nelson and the hilarious Christian values shoe-horned into Santa Clause. But Martians does have "A Patrick Swayze Christmas," and Servo's great speech about what would happen if Santa and the reindeer could fly in space. The latter is on DVD, but both are on Youtube.
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