TIM ALLEN - MOVIE REVIEWS: THE SANTA CLAUSE 3

MOVIE REVIEWS: THE SANTA CLAUSE 3

"We're getting a turkey and a ham for the holidays," writes Kyle Smith in the New York Post, referring to The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause and its star, Tim Allen. In this movie, Smith comments, Santa "is so dumb he should be demoted to cleaning up after Geoffrey the Giraffe at Toys 'R' Us." Manohla Dargis in the New York Times dismisses the movie with a three-paragraph review that is possibly the shortest she's ever written, ending with the comment, "It's squeaky clean, but you might die of boredom." And Nathaniel Bell in the Los Angeles Daily News writes it off as "holiday filler, stuffed with unearned emotion and trite sentimentality." (The Seattle Post-Intelligencer ran a notice saying that it was not posting a review of the movie because it was not "screened in advance for critics." It was not clear why some critics were able to view the movie while others were not.)

03/11/2006