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The Santa Clauses (2022)
Season 1 Premiere: Nov 8, 2022
55
4.1
Top Cast
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
55
43% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
57% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Negative
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0 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
55
43% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
57% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Director Jason Winer gets the series off to a fun start, bringing Allen back to his old ways. But he also finds a way to make the former Scott Calvin look a little hip. (A Santa with abs? It’s possible.) He also fleshes out the workshop and finds enough ways to lampoon tradition without appearing ungrateful. ... The latest iteration may not be as snarky as earlier ones, but there's plenty of fun to ensure this isn't going to be a "lump of coal" year.
There are truly strong elements in this season — Stonestreet and Iglesias' dynamic, the Elves, even Cal and Sandra. In trying to do too much in too little time, the fun, intriguing parts don't quite gel, and The Santa Clauses Season 2 struggles to muster up enough Christmas spirit to make it a true holiday classic.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 15 User Ratings
4.1
33% Positive
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
20% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
47% Negative
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 15 User Ratings
4.1
33% Positive
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
20% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
47% Negative
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
Oh how the mighty have fallen. This is brutal and painful to watch. He must of been paid a boatload to tarnish this Santa clause brand. Don’t even waste your time on this. The stories of Tim Allen being a drama queen on set has to be true becausehe knows the garbage he is making here.Another Disney disaster that they don’t care about what make the first movie so special. Disney+ is getting hard to justify paying forif this is the content they want to putout.
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The Santa Clauses doesn’t bother trying to reinvent the sleigh, but it does splash a new coat of paint on it, in mostly agreeable and mildly clever ways.
Though it’s thin in characterization and obvious in the emotional beats — sort of the point in a work like this, anyway — it’s a respectable, fairly amusing holiday entertainment for anyone who would like to start their Christmas now.
This is a SKIP IT to all but the diehard Santa Clause fans out there. If you rewatch the entire Santa Clause trilogy every year, of course you’re going to want to see what happens next. The rest of us are fine sticking to the first film — or just rewatching Elf.
Gleams of genuine emotion or charm tend to get buried under shoddy workmanship. ... The undemanding plot and shiny visuals might be enough to quiet a room full of kids for a half-hour at a time, and possibly even elicit a twinge of nostalgia or two in their Millennial parents. But if The Santa Clause‘s central worry is that there’s just not enough holiday magic in the world anymore, this halfhearted series seems unlikely to be the gift that’s going to bring it back.
It works so desperately hard to fill out six episodes — a full three hours of Clause #content! — that it just ends up dragging its feet. Scenes that should be a snappy couple of minutes go on for several too long; plots that can barely stand on their own do their best to hold up entire episodes to no avail. Trying to watch more than one episode, let alone six, feels less like having a warm mug of cocoa than chugging it and crashing off the sugar high.
You’d be hard pressed to find a bigger Santa Clause series fan than me, but even I couldn’t finish this terrible show. It’s a real shame because visually the show looks great, the music and the tone are very similar to that of the films, but the writing is unbearable. Joke after joke that doesn’t land or make sense, nothing really happens in the episodes, there are no stakes to any events that are happening….. man what a shame. If the writing was better it would be a fun sequel to the films, but I’ll continue watching those every year and never watch this show again. Terrible.
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Must say I'm a little disappointed, a part of me was hoping Tim Allen could maybe provide a few chuckles and rekindle some of that old school 90s magic. But sadly no, it's Disney and that means all of that awful cult dirge they inject into all of their properties - 1 magical Christmas star for this lump of coal
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Production Company:
- 20th Television
- Disney Branded Television
- Small Dog Picture Company
- Walt Disney Television
Initial Release Date: Nov 8, 2022
Number of seasons: 2 Seasons
Rating: TV-PG
Awards
Children's & Family Emmy Awards
• 7 Nominations
Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild Awards
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Family Film Awards
• 1 Nomination
