In the end, my family liked this a lot more than I did, but, despite my gripes, still had a decent time watching it, which is why I’m still rating it as highly as I am. (In fact, that’s why I thought Kate was with Santa at all.) But, no, everything that happened was real, and Santa really did need these random kids to save the North Pole.
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Haven’t even mentioned Belsnickel, the disgruntled former elf that drives the entire plot, because the weird little CGI characters we barely saw in the first movie were already pretty creepy, so to make them central to story and evil in this second movie is either genius or insanity, and I can’t quite decide which.ĭo wish, and kept expecting, that they’d bring it back to the final premise of the first one, where the whole adventure was actually engineered by Santa to teach Kate and her brother a lesson. Like, how young was he when he and Williams-Paisley got together and had their now college-age son? In fact, most of this movie, other than opening and closing sequences in Cancun with the world’s most useless parents-you have to sign your kids in and out of a kids’ club if you’re leaving them for an hour, let alone overnight…these parents should probably be investigated-is computer generated, and that’s probably why much of it feels so inert.Īnd I definitely was not clamoring for another extended musical number that’s just an excuse for Russell’s Santa to put on shades and pretend to play the sax, no matter how much we all adore Darlene Love.Īlso weird that they’d hang a lantern on the age difference between mom, played by Kimberley Williams-Paisley, and Hudson, by making his daughter go back and meet him as a teen in 1990.
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Even when I know full well the animals are all CGI, this is not what I want to see in my Christmas cheer. Gotta love some fun, old fashioned animal abuse in your kids’ holiday tale-not. All the money spent here showed in the polish, but there were also some questionable scenes for a movie aimed at children, like Santa’s reindeer being mauled (what are we watching?!?) and then a cat swung around by his tail. There were some good sequences for sure, like the Nerf war shot like an action movie, which my kids adored. When she drops the star they traveled so far to get, my son actually said out loud, ‘You had one job,’ which might have been the biggest laugh my family had during this movie. Why Kate even needed to go with Santa on his journey is beyond me, as she really did nothing but make things worse.
Russell and Hawn’s chemistry is, of course, great, but the kids at the heart of it, the returning “Kate,” still played by Darby Camp, and her soon-to-be-new-stepbrother “Jack,” Jahzir Bruno, weren’t really up to carrying the massive load the plot put on their shoulders. Even the not great later Santa Clause movies get some direct nods. Making Santa’s sleigh fly by singing loud for all to hear? Pretty sure this is actionable stuff by the Elf producers, right down to the Christmas spirit meter. A special star that forges a magic weapon? We see you Avengers Infinity War.
Claus an integral part of the movie sounded like a great idea, in reality this second effort felt like a fairly nonsensical and unnecessary rehash, that mostly just borrowed from far better movies for various sub-par action and special effect sequences.Ī hidden troll village as wise givers of magic? Frozen did it better. The second Christmas Chronicles was…not that. Claus, and stepson Oliver Hudson playing the deceased father of the two kids who get to spend the night in Santa’s sleigh. The original The Christmas Chronicles, which featured Kurt Russell as a sassy Santa offended by his bowl full of jelly portrayal, was a fun, family adventure that brought some new elements to the Santa legend in an original way, while providing a good bit of work for Russell’s extended family, with longtime love Goldie Hawn making a cameo as Mrs. Where to Watch?: It’s a Netflix original, so it should be available on the service forever
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