Dear Santa (2024) review

Paunchy sixth grader Liam (Robert Timothy Smith), who has a learning disability, constantly bickering parents (Brianne Howey and Hayes MacArthur), a younger sibling that passed away (Leo Easton Kelly) and only one friend at school, Gibby (Jaden Carson Baker), still believes in Santa Claus and so he writes him a letter, but he accidentally misspells the name on the card and summons fashion icon Satan (Jack Black), who offers him three wishes in exchange for his soul.  Since this was directed by Bobby Farrelly (with a script co-written by his brother Peter, Ricky Blitt and Black) you can expect rampant childishness, an uncomfortable sequence at a Post Malone concert and scatological "humor" ... except it's good natured in spirit (Liam's heart is in the right place), Black gets to jam out and it pulls multiple muscles bending over backwards to leave the audience with an uplifting Holiday Ending.  I'd also like to note that everyone should show a teensy bit of pity towards their overly-opinionated English teachers because we're stressed out, paid poorly and never wrote anything worth reading: even El Diablo agrees with me, and that's sayin' something.