Wednesday 21 December 2011

The Santa Clause 3 : The Escape Clause (2006) 7/10

Starring : Tim Allen, Martin Short, Elizabeth Mitchell
Director : Michael Lembeck
Running Time : 88 mins

At the North Pole, Carol Calvin aka. Mrs Claus (Mitchell) is due to have a baby by her husband Scott aka Santa (Allen). The stress of her pregnancy, coupled with Christmas looming and his in-laws coming to visit, causes Scott no end of problems, and just when everything seems like it couldn’t get worse, Santa finds himself faced with potentially losing his Santa powers when Jack Frost (Short) fills in for him and tries to trick him into using the fabled escape clause that will mean he never became Santa in the first place.

It’s a bit annoying that Jack Frost is accused of upstaging Santa on his holiday – isn’t it Jesus’ holiday? Anyway, this movie is just a bit of fun, and actually giving Santa some proper adversity in this movie makes it a little more interesting than the previous instalment, although Jack Frost is a little more subtle than you’d expect.

You’ll like this if you liked : Jack Frost



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