Synopsis
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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Cast
- Tim AllenScott Calvin
- Elizabeth MitchellCarol
- Eric LloydCharlie Calvin
- Judge ReinholdNeil Miller
- Wendy CrewsonLaura Miller
- Spencer BreslinCurtis
- Liliana MumyLucy Miller
- Martin ShortJack Frost
- Ann-MargretSylvia Newman
- Alan ArkinBud Newman
Recommendations
- 75
New York Daily News
Allen and Short seem to be having so much fun that their enthusiasm is entirely contagious. Let the season begin. - 60
Los Angeles Times
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. - 50
Variety
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. - 50
Philadelphia Inquirer
This isn't a movie, it's an animatronic theme-park ride - an artificially processed, easily digestible treat for kids.Ho, ho hum. - 50
ReelViews
There's some potential in this storyline, but the movie doesn't do much with it besides giving Martin Short an opportunity to put on the fat suit. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
To borrow a cliche from another medium, Santa might have jumped the shark. - 38
Boston Globe
The bad news, for those looking forward to The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause with anything like enthusiasm, is this: Bernard the Elf is history. - 30
The New York Times
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.
