Movie Review: ***^Forever Young (1992)

This is a very enjoyable movie, about a test pilot (Mel Gibson) who decides to be frozen when his girlfriend (Isabel Glasser) is hit by a car an in a coma.  He regrets that he never proposed marriage to her.  His friend (George Wendt) is a scientist working on a special project and needing a subject for cryogenics.  However, he is misplaced for over 50 years.  His friend died in a fire, saving the cryogenics machine.  They were both listed killed in the fire, and the machine misplaced in a warehouse.  Until some kids, playing around, open the capsule, and out comes a man.  He gets the jacket of one of the kids (Elijah Wood), and traces it to his house, where he meets the kids mother (Jamie Lee Curtis.)  The cryogenics does not stop rapid aging after someone is unthawed.  The test pilot is trying to find those people with whom he associated, and finally comes upon someone who might know something.  Finally after several days, things start to fall into place.  This is a love story where you get a second chance. 

Christmas Movie Review: ***Santa Baby

This is a cute little movie which shows the daughter of Santa Clause, who is a business consultant in the real world, and has come home to take over the family business as Santa has had a heart attack.  Being at home, she has some ideas to implement, less cookie breaks and more automation.  However her boyfriend follows her and he wants to purchase the North Pole and put in a mall.  She feels she has ruined Christmas, but things work out in the end, and she gets a new boyfriend.  Jenny McCarthy is Santa's daughter and George Wendt plays Santa.