Bad Santa is one of my favourite Christmas movies. On a superficial level it is a gross-out comedy packed with swearing, drinking, poor behaviour, and criminal activity. Everything is taken to excess, particularly anything to do with Willie. He drinks alcohol until he has to throw up in an alleyway. He has a penchant for anal sex with large women. When dressed as Santa Claus he swears at and verbally abuses the very children he is supposed to be entertaining. At one point he is so drunk he urinates in his Santa suit.
I imagine a lot of people tried Bad Santa and hated it, and that's fair enough: the film's roughest elements are clearly more than a lot of people will find entertaining. That said, I personally adore the film because underneath that superficial layer of poor behaviour there is a heartwarming story about a bad man learning to become a better person.
