The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause

2006

98 mins

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Perhaps the last installment of the Disney Christmas franchise, in which Tim Allen finds himself subjected to the legally binding... More

Perhaps the last installment of the Disney Christmas franchise, in which Tim Allen finds himself subjected to the legally binding Santa 'Clause' after toppling the real Santa off the roof in the original.

This time around, Santa (Allen), aka Scott Calvin, has to fight off Jack Frost (Short), who wants to rule Christmas himself. Making matters more complicated, Scott risks the secret location of his North Pole hideout by inviting his family up for the holiday.

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Where to watch The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause

The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause is available to... More stream in New Zealand now on Google TV and Apple TV Store and Disney+.

The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause | Ratings & Reviews

17_%66 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes® rating
39_%150,993 reviews
Audience score rating
8+Age suitability
Children & Media rating

"Not unlike the shiny snow globe at its center, The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause is a thing of consummate craftsmanship, a smoothly engineered and fundamentally lifeless object that's nevertheless capable of giving even the grinchiest moviegoers a brief attack of the warm-and-fuzzies..."

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Variety

"One of the good things about bad movies is that when someone sneers about the unworthiness of a perfectly mediocre film like, say, "Crash," you can turn to a seriously unworthy film like, say, The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause and laugh. Ho. Ho. Ho...."

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The New York Times

"Plodding and unfunny..."

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San Francisco Chronicle

"As a full-service holiday movie, The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause gets you into the mood to shop early and often by making the North Pole look like a shopping mall with a never-ending school pageant..."

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