Sheriff Rick Langston (Dean Cain) is having a terrible holiday season.  When his ex-wife tells him that she doesn’t want him coming over for Christmas to see their daughter, Sheriff Langston goes to her house and is shocked to discover a fat man with a white beard having a sandwich in the kitchen.  The man (Paul Hopper) says he’s Santa Claus.  Rick says the man’s under arrest.  Everyone in town thinks that Rick is a real Grinch, tossing Santa Claus in jail.  But even behind bars, Santa has a way of solving people’s problems.

This is the second film that I’ve watched in two days in which Dean Cain plays a sheriff who arrests Santa.  I guess this is the Dean Cain Christmas Cinematic Universe.  It would have been funny if Dean Cain had been playing the same sheriff that he played in Defending Santa.  How many times can this happen to the same person?  In a few years, maybe they will remake The Santa Clause with Dean Cain’s sheriff having to replace Santa after one of his arrests goes wrong.

Small Town Santa has some cute scenes.  Rick has a dream where everyone in town turns into Santa and starts telling him how much he sucks.  There was a scene with an amateur Christmas pageant that I could relate to.  (My 5th grade performance as Shepherd #3 was critically acclaimed!)  Speaking of amateurish, some of the acting could be described that way but Dean Cain is believable and likable as the burned-out small town sheriff.  Keep an eye out for the “Real Heroes Don’t Wear Capes” poster.

Santa Claus solves everyone’s problems.  I knew he would!