Caught the MST3K ‘riffed’ version tonight given the season, and its about as daffy as it ever was. I think the riffing absolutely helps add enough to the film to make it significantly more watchable. without it, the whole movie seems almost ‘fever dream’ esq…elongated scenes of weird WEIRD dialogue delivery choices and other oddities…this is a strange and not particularly well made movie…I have the unriffed version on my shelf and will likely review that one more in depth in future…But for now, I can say the MST version IS better than the unriffed version…But yeh…this is only a click or so off ‘Fun in Balloon Land’ level weirdness.

source https://letterboxd.com/tytdreviews/film/santa-claus-1959/