Thirteen years and this sequel suddenly sneaked up on us!

There had been talk of a BAD SANTA 2 since the success of the first in 2003. It was bittersweet success back then because actor John Ritter, the ineffectual Phoenix mall manager, had suddenly died from an undiagnosed aortic dissection before the release of BAD SANTA. It would be his last hurrah.

BAD SANTA was a movie that you either loved or hated and some people claim that they hated it so much that they liked it. Yeah, there was something sentimental about the vulgar BAD SANTA movie. Anything that takes place over Christmas is going to evoke nostalgic feelings anyway.

The Hollywood tinsel town talk about BAD SANTA 2 continued off and on for the next thirteen years. The sequel never got started and everyone pretty much gave up on it and forgot about it.

Yet, LO and BEHOLD, out of nowhere here's BAD SANTA 2. How did Hollywood pull that one out of the bag? There was not one clue over the past two years that the sequel production was in progress. Nothing, I mean nothing, showed up on IMDB. Yet here it is.

Some naysayers are already putting the movie down. I think it's because they don't WANT a sequel to the iconic BAD SANTA. I can understand why they feel that way. But I still want to see the sequel.

I do agree with one IMDB poster. Why the @#$%! did it take Hollywood so d**n long to do the @#$%&! sequel??? Why now in 2016 thirteen years later? That's almost as bad as the long-delayed 'Basic Instinct' sequel when the main actress was now in her late forties and was no longer sexy.