Happy New Year! Here's a movie from Christmas.Scott Calvin (Tim Allen) has been doing pretty well as Santa Clause. He and Mrs. Clause (Elizabeth Mitchell) are expecting their own bundle of joy and both are freaking out just slightly that the baby might arrive while Scott is delivering gifts. To ease her mind, Scott brings her parents (Ann-Margaret and Alan Alda) to the North Pole to be with her, because adding in-laws to any mix is bound to settle it down and render it peaceful. Meanwhile, Jack Frost (Martin Short), tired of being the opening act but never the star, decides to sabotage the Christmas preparations in an attempt to get Scott to relinquish the position.
This isn't the worst Christmas movie I've ever seen but it is a total hot mess. So much time is devoted to Frost's antics that the actual It's a Wonderful Life riff on what would happen if Scott had never put on Santa's coat lasts about five minutes. Ann-Margaret and Alan Alda are completely extraneous here, despite the prominence of their names, in favor of child actress Liliana Mumy as Scott's niece Lucy, who is instrumental in helping him defeat Frost.
The pacing is terrible, the plot is recycled, and the performances are either Christmas ham or totally phoned in. You can do better.
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