Scott Calvin (Tim Allen) is a divorced, workaholic, toy company executive who must rush home to spend Christmas Eve with his son Charlie (Eric Lloyd). He tries to cook dinner, but burns it and they end up eating Christmas Eve dinner at the local Denny's which seem to be where the other divorced Dad's with kids end up. When they get home, they read the "Night Before Christmas" and hear a loud noise on the roof. Santa has fallen and disappeared. Scott puts on Santa's Jacket after finding a card in the pocket that tells him to put it on With some encouragement from Charlie he makes Santa's deliveries for the rest of the children. When they are done, they find themselves at the North Pole (the reindeer must have autopilot). The head Elf Bernard (David Krumholtz) tells him that he has eleven months to get his affairs in order as he is now "the big guy" since he put on the suit and found the card that binds him to become Santa in the pocket of the jacket. Since he did this, he has agreed to "The Santa Clause" and is now Santa. The next part of the movie shows some domestic type conflict between Scott and his ex-wife Laura's (Wendy Crewson) psychiatrist husband Neil (Judge Reinhold).
When Scott begins to physically change into Santa problems begin to occur. Children begin to want to sit on his lap and Charlie tells everyone that he is Santa. This bothers his ex-wife and her husband and they try to stop his visitation with Charlie. Charlie ends up going to the North Pole and Laura and Neil notify the police that Charlie has been kidnapped by Scott/Santa. Santa is thrown into jail when he tries to deliver presents and his elves break him out. Santa is soon able to make Laura and Neil believe that he is Santa and all ends up happily.
This is a nice, cute, clean movie.
97 Minutes. Rated PG. I give this movie THREE AND A QUARTER STARS.
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