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The Santa Clause 2 (2002)
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Reviews Counted:27
Fresh:12
Rotten:15
Average Rating:5.3/10
Consensus: Though it's harmless as family entertainment and has moments of charm, The Santa Clause 2 is also predictable and forgettable.
Theatrical Release:Nov 1, 2002 Wide
Box Office: $139,225,854
Synopsis: Scott Calvin (Tim Allen) found a jacket eight years ago that turned him into Santa Claus. Unfortunately, 900-year old elf Curtis (Spencer Breslin) failed to read the fine print in the Santa Clause... [More]
Starring: Tim Allen, Elizabeth Mitchell, Spencer Breslin, Wendy Crewson
Director: Michael Lembeck
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Reviews for The Santa Clause 2
Top CriticThe scenes in which Fake Santa torments the elves with a toy soldier army are twisted enough to make it worth sticking around through the mawkish courtship.
11/12/02
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11/06/02
Top CriticThe Santa Clause 2 is a barely adequate babysitter for older kids, but I've got to give it thumbs down.
11/05/02
Top CriticA bloated, prefab sequel that gets stuck in the chimney.
11/02/02
Top CriticHas less charm than coal in a stocking.
11/01/02
Top CriticA movie conscious, at every waking moment, of trying to out-do its predecessor.
11/01/02
Top CriticIf you value your time and money, find an escape clause and avoid seeing this trite, predictable rehash.
11/01/02
Top CriticThere's something fishy about a seasonal holiday kids' movie ... that derives its moment of most convincing emotional gravity from a scene where Santa gives gifts to grownups.
11/01/02
Top CriticKids probably will find it rip-roaring holiday fun, and it is rated G to boot.
11/01/02
Top CriticIt's as home-entertainment ready as a shrink-wrapped sack of microwave popcorn. But at least it works hard at finding ways of pushing this one-joke premise ahead a space or two.
11/01/02
Top CriticAn intermittently amusing but soulless mechanism for the extraction of money from moviegoers.
11/01/02
Top CriticNot so much funny as aggressively sitcom-cute, it's full of throwaway one-liners, not-quite jokes, and a determined TV amiability that Allen personifies.
11/01/02
Top CriticHas plenty of ingenious takes on North Pole mythology to skate over the rough spots of a scattered script.
11/01/02
Top CriticMore of the same tinsel-draped malarkey that made the original film into a big hit, but it's more engaging, assured and funny, and I liked it more.
11/01/02
Top CriticAllen, with hardworking charm, single-handedly saves it from family-values monotony.
11/01/02
Top CriticThe sequel drops the adult aspects of the story in favor of talking reindeer and a life-size, plastic Santa replacement (also played by Allen) that is strongly reminiscent of that creepy family from the Duracell commercials.
11/01/02
Top CriticThe film has no pretensions other then being exactly what it is: a sweet, slickly manufactured tale for the whole family, a holiday diversion cut to fit everyone from 6 to 60.
10/31/02
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