A little muddled and derivative but what do we expect, really?
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11/30/06
The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (2006)
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Reviews Counted:63
Fresh:8
Rotten:55
Average Rating:3.6/10
Consensus: Playing Jack Frost as an evil cross between Liza Minnelli and Liberace, Martin Short is a welcome presence, but this tired series continues drawing from its bag of bland gags and dumb slapstick.
Theatrical Release:24-11-2006
Synopsis: THE SANTA CLAUSE 3: THE ESCAPE CLAUSE, the third installment of the popular holiday series THE SANTA CLAUSE picks up with Everyman-turned-Santa-Claus Scott Calvin (Tim Allen) just days before... [More]
Starring: Tim Allen, Alan Arkin, Martin Short, Judge Reinhold
Director: Michael Lembeck
Reviews for The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
Top CriticChristmas cheer is in short supply in The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause, a feeble festive farce that's more no-no-no than ho-ho-ho.
11/28/06
Top CriticSanta's traditional cry of ho-ho-ho has never sounded more like three stab wounds of pain and horror.
11/25/06
You’ve got to hand it to director Michael Lembeck… he’s succeeded in persuading studio bosses to let him make not one but two sequels from premises that were dead in the water from the word go.
11/23/06
Top CriticBadly written, shockingly acted and appallingly directed threequel that will please precisely no-one.
11/23/06
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10/18/08
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06/04/08
You look at a movie like this and wonder how some screenwriters can have the temerity to go on strike
12/05/07
Special effects are in abundance, but none of them are very well-produced, much like the film on the whole.
11/21/07
It's sad to see the life sucked out of a series that started so well.
11/09/07
Short's skill and total commitment to his role make him no straw-dog villain, and his chemistry with Allen helps the movie's Santa feel like a real live person and not an imperturbable icon.
03/01/07
Frost turns the occasion into a swag-saturated consumer orgy, which the film condemns even as it hams up product placement for Red Bull.
02/03/07
While it may concern elves and Christmas, 'The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause' is more dreary than cheery.
01/12/07
There is no escaping the banality of it all.
12/11/06
Cinema is far too powerful a medium to be graded on a curve-- even when Tim Allen is involved.
11/24/06
Bah, humbug.
11/18/06
A desperately lazy and unoriginal exercise.
11/18/06
The movie is more cute than funny. Smiles are plentiful, but outright laughs are widely scattered.
11/18/06
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11/17/06
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