Who are we to tell Leslie Nielsen to say no to anything?

After a career that mostly found him playing in B movies, he hit it big with Airplane and followed the formula, In 2007, he said, “I’m afraid if I don’t keep moving, they’re going to catch me … I am 81 years old and I want to see what’s around the corner, and I don’t see any reason in the world not to keep working.” He kept on making movies in his comfort zone like The Naked Gun, Repossessed, Dracula: Dead and Loving It, Mr. Magoo, 2001: A Space Travesty, Scary Movie 3 and 4, Wrongfully Accused, Spy Hard and many more. So devoted to the joke — he carried a fart machine everywhere — his tombstone has his favorite saying: “”Let ‘er rip.”

This movie is your basic Disney TV movie. Nielsen is Santa, who has fallen off his sleigh and gets amnesia. A TV reporter, Peter Albright (Steven Eckholdt), is getting publicity for featuring him but doesn’t believe that he’s the real Santa, unlike his girlfriend’s Claire’s (Robyn Lively) son Zack (Max Morrow). Tommy Davidson is Max the elf, who decides that with Santa gone, he and the other elves can take some time off. But if Santa doesn’t get it together, there will be no Christmas.

Lionsgate has licensed this movie, along with other Hearst properties such as The Babysitter’s Seduction, Sex, Lies, & Obsession, A Different Kind of Christmas, Blue Valley Songbird and Sex & Mrs. X to MarVista Entertainment. Yes. The makers of all my Tubi movies. This needs to get moving because Christmas is days away and this would be such a joy for me.

You can watch this on Tubi.