Red one: Superheros save Santa? Duh

if you have two hours to waste there are worse ways to do it than watching Red One, a silly action packed/CGI filled film about the head E.L.F. and a hacker saving Santa, who was kidnapped by Gryla, the evil witch of anti Christmas, who wants to save the world by getting rid of everyone on Santa's naughty list.

caution: Too much cartoonish violence for young kids but Rock and Chris Evans play the story straight (not tongue in cheek), and if you can ignore the absurdity of the North Pole as a super Amazon store that delivers all your present on time it sort of makes sense.

Uh, did Santa have computers in the third century Turkey, where the original St Nicholas lived? 

or did he get them when the Yanks evolved the Dutch legend into Santa Claus?

the traditional Santa Claus was first depicted as a jolly man (not a bishop) when Thomas Nast drew a picture of him in 1863, based on the poem Twas the Night before Christmas, published in 1823.

a lot of the Nordic mythological creatures associated with the Christmas season are in the film Red One.

for example, there is Krampus, which the film suggests was Nick's brother, based on the monster who travels with the bishop St Nicholas in Austria.

But I was not familiar with GRYLA, who comes from Icelandic folklore.

,,,,

Atlas Obacura has a list of the monsters of Christmas

As for Santa: yes, there was a real bishop named Nicolas, who was famous for his charity to the poor.

his Wikipedia page notes he is the patron saint of

 sailors, merchants, archers, repentant thieves, children, brewers, pawnbrokers, toymakers, unmarried people, and students in various cities and countries around Europe.

and so how did he evolve into Santa Claus? 

His reputation evolved among the pious, as was common for early Christian saints, and his legendary habit of secret gift-giving gave rise to the folklore of Santa Claus ("Saint Nick") through Sinterklaas.

By the way, it was recently  reported that archeologists found his tomb.