Hey, do you remember Jingle All the Way?

Hello and welcome to Hey Do You Remember, a show where we reminisce about a movie or TV series we grew up with, then take off the rose tinted glasses to see how it holds up.

I'm Chris.

I'm Donna.

And I'm Carlos. And today we're revisiting Jingle All the Way.

Music And I'm Carlos. And today we're revisiting Jingle All the Way. When you think of an upper middle class Minnesota family man, you're obviously picturing Arnold Schwarzenegger.

But in between playing Terminators and Commandos, he had a real affinity for these regular Joe roles.

And at this point, he also had had a pretty solid run when it came to this type of broad comedy.

Schwarzenegger had been attached to Fox's Planet of the Apes reboot,

but the latest in a long line of delays had freed him up

and the studio quickly offered him this project instead.

Another member of the Apes production came with him,

Screenwriter Chris Columbus.

Columbus took a look at the original script

and decided it needed a slightly darker

and more satirical edge. This was, after all, the same man who wrote Gremlins. And who directed

Home Alone? So when the film was fast-tracked for release in November of 1996, it had a very

promising pedigree of talent behind it. But this was not the next home alone. And thanks to Schwarzenegger's

$20 million payday, it also had a much steeper hill to climb before it turned a profit. And the

critics had their knives out for this one. The main complaint was that Columbus's satire came off

more like lazy cynicism and didn't mix particularly well with the goofier slapstick elements.

Arnold was also raked over the colds with several reviewers marking this as proof positive of a

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