Tim Allen reprises his role as Scott Calvin/Santa in the second of the "Santa Clause" films. All is happy and good at the North Pole until it is discovered that Scott's son Charlie (Eric Lloyd) is on the "Naughty List". He also must grapple with another problem, he must find a wife by Christmas Eve or stop being Santa!!. Curtis the elf (Spencer Breslin), the Keeper of the Handbook of Christmas, has discovered that Santa must find a wife or he will de-Santify. Almost immediately Santa begins to notice changes such as his beard getting shorter and his body getting slimmer. Before Santa leaves to find a wife and tend to Charlie, he has a meeting with the other Legendary Figures such as Mother Nature, Father Time, Cupid, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy.
Scott begins to try to find a wife and finds one unexpectedly in the outwardly cold principal Newman (Elizabeth Mitchell) of his sons middle school. In the meantime, Curtis the elf has developed a fake Santa so that the workers at the North Pole don't suspect that something is up with Santa. The fake Santa takes the "Naughty List" seriously and decides that everyone needs coal, not gifts and becomes dictatorial and takes over the North Pole with his toy soldiers (kind of creepy). In the end, Santa marries and all is well at the Pole.
All of the characters from the original movie appear in this installment. There is a part where Santa stops the fake Santa from taking off in the sleigh and calls him "a sad little man" which is what he said as his character in "A Toy Story" as Buzz Lightyear. It has been said that it is a tradition in Disney films to have things from other Disney movies in them.
104 Minutes. Rated G. I give this movie TWO AND THREE QUARTER STARS.
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