A businessman (Steven Weber) must re-live Christmas Eve twelve times to learn the true meaning of the season.
Quick Review: Was there a need to combine It’s a Wonderful Life with Groundhog Day? The first has been copied far too many times and the second pretty much covered the reliving-a-day genre. This isn’t an artistic creation, but a cynical construct. Hey, Miracle on 34th Street is a classic and Titanic made a lot of money, so let’s make a film where Santa is tried by the captain of a doomed ocean liner. I can’t see that any more consideration was put into green-lighting this project. As I knew exactly what was going to happen after watching the trailer, I had to rely on the execution to make 12 Days of Christmas worth watching. But the dialog is sit-com stuff and the details are bland. I did appreciate the foolish businessman repeating President George W. Bush’s bizarre misstatement “Fool me once, shame on me; fool me twice, won’t get fooled again.” Bush couldn’t manage the correct quote as that would require him to say he could, theoretically, be wrong. In this case, it’s the producer of this unnecessary picture that needs to repeat the correct version of the end of the quote.