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The Santa Clause 2 (2002)
Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins
Synopsis: Scott Calvin (Tim Allen) found a jacket eight years ago that turned him into Santa Claus. Unfortunately, 900-year old elf Curtis (Spencer Breslin) failed to read the fine print in the Santa Clause and didn't notice that Santa has to find a wife or stop being Santa. As Christmas Eve--the... Scott Calvin (Tim Allen) found a jacket eight years ago that turned him into Santa Claus. Unfortunately, 900-year old elf Curtis (Spencer Breslin) failed to read the fine print in the Santa Clause and didn't notice that Santa has to find a wife or stop being Santa. As Christmas Eve--the marriage deadline--approaches, Santa finds himself slowly returning to his mortal appearance as the "de-Santification process" begins. To make matters worse, his mortal son, Charlie, is acting out in school and is on the Naughty list. Searching for a wife and worried about Charlie, Santa returns home as Scott, leaving a toy Santa (also played by Allen) in his place to run the North Pole. Unfortunately, the toy Santa becomes obsesses with the rules in the Santa handbook and turns into a dictator, complete with an army of toy soldiers. Allen is extremely engaging as Scott, a normal guy who loves his role as perhaps the most beloved character in the lives of children. David Krumholtz stars as Bernard, Santa's right-hand elf, and Elizabeth Mitchell is Carol Newman, Charlie's school principal and Scott's unlikely love interest. [More]
Genre: Childrens
Starring: Tim Allen, Elizabeth Mitchell, Spencer Breslin, Wendy Crewson, Michael Dorn
Screenwriter: Cinco Paul, Ken Daurio, Edward Decter, John J. Strauss, Don Rhymer
Producer: Bobby Newmeyer, Brian Reilly, Jeffrey Silver
Composer: George S. Clinton
DVD Info
Release:
Jun 11, 2004
Reviews
Veering between cold-hearted cynicism ... and magical Christmas moments, this is far better than the usual Hollywood holiday cash-ins.
Fun for those for whom Hogwarts or Middle Earth are a little too tiring or scary, a cinematic lump of coal for everyone else.
Amazingly, the film juggles all the elements well without being messy, instead playing fair and tying up all the loose ends.
...stocks itself with unoriginal and cheap slapstick violence, cloying performances and ridiculously forced sight gags and smirking jokes that wouldn't melt a snow flake on a Sears hotplate
The script for SC2...is not perfect, but with Allen’s help it delivers more hits than misses.
Now comes our annual cinematic Christmas goose, "The Santa Clause 2," a sufficiently agreeable but belated sequel that isn't nearly as charming or as heartfelt as the 1994 original.
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