The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause

The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (2006)

  • 15% of critics liked it
    (65 reviews)

  • 57% of users liked it
    (145,902 ratings)

Tim Allen returns as a regular guy-turned-Jolly Old Elf in the second sequel to the 1994 hit The Santa Clause. Scott Calvin (Tim Allen), who doubles as Santa Claus, has settled into his home at the North Pole with his new wife, Carol (Elizabeth Mitchell), and is preparing for another Christmas when… More

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G, 1 hr. 32 min.
Directed By
Michael Lembeck
Genres
Comedy, Kids & Family
In Theaters
Nov 3, 2006 Wide
On DVD
Nov 20, 2007
Buena Vista

Critic Reviews

  • Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune

    The movie is more cute than funny. Smiles are plentiful, but outright laughs are widely scattered.

  • Gregory Kirschling, Entertainment Weekly

    This Styrofoam snowman of a sequel overdoses on its own candy-cane-colored sugary cheer.

  • James Berardinelli, ReelViews

    Perfect entertainment for five-year olds and sheer torture for the unlucky parent(s) accompanying them to the theater.

  • Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle

    It's very, very difficult to care, because the movie is structured so poorly.

  • Ty Burr, Boston Globe

    Jack Frost gains control of Santa's workshop and turns it into a Las Vegas-style theme park -- supposedly a hideous inversion of Christmas values. So blandly commercialized is the movie's vision of the holiday that you can hardly tell the difference.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Brad W


    Cheesy crap that is a waste of christmas

  • Luke B


    A real, painfully forced entry. It takes on the old alternate reality scenario. Jack Frost wants to steal Santa's limelight by becoming Santa. In this offering the human drama is sidelined, and is the simple getting on with the in-laws shtick. There's really not a lot to… More

  • Bently L


    Not as good as the first two but an okay conclusion to the series. I just wish Bernard was in it.

  • KJ P


    I can still watch this movie, because I really would watch anything that has anything to do with christmas during the holidays, but it is definately, extremely disappointing!

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