The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause

2006

Action / Adventure / Comedy / Family / Fantasy

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 17% · 66 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 39% · 100K ratings
IMDb Rating 4.8/10 10 42571 42.6K

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Plot summary

Now that Santa and Mrs. Claus have the North Pole running smoothly, the Counsel of Legendary Figures has called an emergency meeting on Christmas Eve! The evil Jack Frost has been making trouble, looking to take over the holiday! So he launches a plan to sabotage the toy factory and compel Scott to invoke the little-known Escape Clause and wish he'd never become Santa.


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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by r96sk 7 / 10

I was expecting to dislike

Well I'm in the minority with this...

I actually, admittedly narrowly, enjoyed 'The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause' - terrible title, mind. Most other reviewers clearly didn't and I respect that, but I genuinely found it alright. It's definitely the weakest entry of the series, yet I still found it entertaining enough.

Martin Short (Jack Frost) is the star of this second sequel to 1994's The Santa Clause', outshining lead Tim Allen; who is still decent, by the way. I love Short's character design, he looks ridiculous in the nicest possible way and Frost (why him, I'm not sure I admit) makes for a relatively good villain. All the other cast members take a backseat, while the storyline of Alan Arkin's Bud is very forgettable and arguably needless.

I was expecting to dislike this and the preceding follow-up, but to my surprise they are actually - at least to me - harmlessly fun festive films.

Reviewed by jboothmillard 4 / 10

The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause

The first film was a good fun film to enjoy, the second time not so much so, and unfortunately this third instalment isn't any improvement, but I stuck with it to the end. Basically Santa Claus (Razzie nominated Tim Allen) aka Scott Calvin and his new wife pregnant Carol (Lost's Elizabeth Mitchell) are running the North Pole and the Elves efficiently and getting ready for the next oncoming Christmas. But a new problem crops up when the naughty Jack Frost (Razzie nominated Martin Short) has been causing trouble, and he is put on probation and it is up to Santa to keep an eye on him. Of course with presents needing to be made and wrapped this is not easy, and the Claus' are concentrating more on Carol's parents, the Newmans, father Bud (Alan Arkin) and mother Sylvia (Ann-Margret) coming to visit. While they come to the North Pole, fooled into thinking it is Canada, and Scott's ex-wife Laura (Wendy Crewson), his son Charlie (Eric Lloyd) and Laura's husband Neil Miller (Beverly Hills Cop's Judge Reinhold) are hanging round too, Jack Frost is ready to cause more trouble. He knows he can finally get some recognition he craves by becoming the new Santa Claus, and he knows that the hall of snow shakers hides the one that can change the past and future. So with Scott pressured and tricked into it, they go twelve years ago when Scott caused the original Santa to fall off the roof, and Jack shouts and ultimately puts on the red coat to take the helm. They return to the present day in the alternative world, where Scott is thin and brown haired working in his office like he used to, and the North Pole is advertised as a theme park attraction with Jack as the new Santa Claus to run the show. Returning to the North Pole and with a little help, Scott manages to grab the snow globe that caused this situation, and double cross Jack into doing the same as he did to him. So they go back twelve years again, and Scott stops Jack shouting again to watch the past Scott shout and the future restore itself, just in time for Christmas Eve and delivery time, for his baby too. Also starring The Cat in the Hat's Spencer Breslin as Curtis, Liliana Mumy as Lucy Miller, Little Miss Sunshine's Abigail Breslin as Trish, Art LaFleur as Tooth Fairy, Kevin Pollak as Cupid, Aisha Tyler as Mother Nature, Jay Thomas as Easter Bunny, Star Trek: The Next Generation's Michael Dorn as Sandman and Peter Boyle as Father Time. Allen is still alright as the lead, Short is pretty annoying as the bad guy, the inclusion of Arkin doesn't add to much, the story is slightly better than the last, there are small laughs and Christmas fun, but as a whole it is a silly seasonal family fantasy comedy. It was nominated the Razzie for Worst Excuse for Family Entertainment, Worst Prequel or Sequel and Worst Screen Couple for Allen and Short. Okay!

Reviewed by studioAT 4 / 10

The final clause

Tim Allen and co return for one final outing as the modern day Santa and his extended family have to put up with Jack Frost trying to take over Christmas.

After the first two films in the series this third instalment was always going to have high standards to beat and although this is a good attempt it fails to do this.

I don't mind the 'It's a Wonderful Life' style scenario but feel that there is too much build up to Scott evoking the escape clause and not enough of him solving the problem.

Martin Short is on fine form as Frost and Allen shines again as Santa but some of the heart that was present in the first two outings seems to be missing. Reinhold and Crewson are reduced to extended cameos and David Krumholtz's absence as Bernard is noticeable.

Overall this is a decent film to conclude the trilogy but it remains the weakest link in what is overall a fine set of films. My advice though would be to buy the box set of these films because there are magical moments to be found in each one.

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