The Santa Clause - Disneycember 

The movie that made everyone think Santa Claus has an "e" at the end of it.

"I like Neil, he listens to me!" "Yeah, and then he charges you for it."

This movie made me think you spell Santa Claus with an E at the end for waaaaayyy too many years haha

That scene where Scott and his son Charlie arrive at the North Pole for the first time and their sitting out in the snow is my favorite scene in the entire series. Loreena McKennitt begins to softly play in the background, singing The Bells of Christmas and a single elf kid walks out onto he scene and quietly grants them access to The North Pole, and the music kicks up. My god, I could watch that scene forever.

I think the wonder and effort put into the North Pole really won me over in this movie. Did they make the best use of Tim Allen? No. Is the story overdone? Yes. But it just feels so damn Christmasey I can't hate it, and the sheer work put into those sets is something to behold.

I LOVE this movie. Tim Allen is one of my favorite actors, and this was the film that made me realize that. It still holds up to this day.

I loved this movie growing up.

Doug said it best. If Santa doesn't exist in these films then how do they explain the gifts that just magically appear?

This is one of my absolute favorite Christmas movies.

I always believed Santa did not die, he merely wanted to quit being Santa and felt his time was up so he "chose" Scott Calvin because he knew he was the person not only most in need but worthy of the job and Santa gets to live out his life normally. Presents also just appearing by Santa in a movie is explained imo that it rewrites the memory and/or history of adults that they did get them that broken bell or doll, it's a way Santa can continue to give presents without any accolade needed, it's selflessness in order to not be hunted down by governments and super criminals, but Santa is a omega level brick he can kick anyone's ass.

I like this movie. I grew up only ever seeing the second one. So, for me to see the backstory of it is very interesting. Also I've always had the biggest crush on Bernard since I was little. :P

tim allen is still my favorite movie santa claus, that was a tear jerker when he had to leave charlie to deliver presents, wish we could have seen more than just the town and the north pole

I love this movie. I grew up with it. So I'm biased.

Still found it to be a classic Christmas movie and still LOVED It

I love this movie. I grew up with it

Can we ever just get a movie where people know Santa exists?

Bloody hell, Doug How can you be offended that kids are playing as the elves?

"It felt like America's Most Wanted!"

It's the one movie i watch every christmas again! I like it, even though it has it's flaws. I just like the vibe in the movie.

And NO elf (even my main dude Bernard) ever questions or is angry that he KILLED their BOSS?

0:15 well they didn't know if Will Ferrel could carry a film either but we all know how well Elf did

Why are so many people mad at him for being slightly offended that little people weren't considered for the elves? Someone here commented they wanted to punch him in the face for that, what the hell!?

Gotta say, I used to watch this all the time as a kid, and now I appreciate it even more as a father. I think it's a charming and well made film, flaws and all.

Probably the biggest laugh I got from this movie was from the teaser trailer. Just the idea of Tim the Toolman saving Christmas makes you play a mini-movie in your head.

1 of my favorite Xmas movies! just makes me feel like a kid again! 😊👍

The "I stopped believing because he didn't give me the exact thing I want" thing REALLY pissed me off as a kid, and I haven't got over that since. Tim Allen is good though.

I actually like this movie

This is by far my favorite Santa movie. I'm surprised you seem to dislike it so much.

This movie is way better than the 1985 Santa Clause movie.

I’d like to see the movie be turned into a Broadway musical someday

I personally think this movie is a Christmas classic but that may be because I watched it on repeat as a kid and I watch it every year to get into the Christmas spirit.

this was my first introduction to that story element. even before miracle on 34th street.

i still love this movie and the sequels it's a fun and cute movie.

Something I don't get about a lot of Christmas movies is that the adults don't believe Santa's real, yet they never question all the presents their kids get that they didn't buy them.

it’s always my 1st watch for the christmas holiday.

I love this film!!!!!!!

I love how the fire place expands when he comes in a house. that was a very creative idea.

Still my favorite Christmas movie

This movie was such a big part of my childhood. Instantly takes me back to Christmas at my Dad's house.

My main problem with the film is the mom and the step dad when Charlie starts believing in Santa Clause and stuff like that the parents become so worried and they even take him to a psychologist and were taking away custody from Allen. The mom and step dad don't believe in Santa just because they didn't get what they wanted when they were little and yeah I get that but then they are telling a kid who is under 10 that Santa isn't real like what parent does that. You can say well he did say his dad is Santa and that is why but even before Santa fell off the roof the mom makes a comment about it.

"Those damn kids took our jobs!"-little people according to Doug

I wish the story focused more on the North Pole and Tim Allen settling in as Santa and discarded the plot about no one believing he's Santa, ect.

This film is a masterpiece

I loved all three of these movies, even with thier flaws ^_^

Okay I love this movie wonderful

I love this movie. I think Tim Allen is great in this movie and is funny and delightfully heartwarming at times. It's a Christmas movie that I must watch every winter. It's so delightful and it's a Christmas classic.

Doug, this movie is the EXACT reason he is called Santa Claus.

Is anyone going to mention just how great Tim Allen's Santa make up is? Just me? Okay.

love this movie a classic

This was my favourite christmas movie right alongside the cartoon Grinch every christmas eve

One I just realised about this movie recently, it's essentially a body-horror movie disguised as a family Christmas movie

I enjoy watching this movie, but not the sequels.

I barely remember the plot of these but I think it's safe to say this is my favourite North Pole and favourite elves. Just seems magical and playful. Seems weird that it would be controversial for not giving little people actors more roles, but really these shouldn't be the only roles available to little people in the first place.

I always liked this movie as a kid, but it bothered me that the adults didn't believe in a Santa who brought presents every year. I remember even asking my mom where the parents in this movie thought the presents came from, and she kind of dodged the question because there isn't a good answer. It's still kind of annoying to me that the film never tried to explain that logical hole.

I usually don't question something that someone takes the time to do, but... a constructive criticism is but as close as it stays to a lot of movies it diverges on certain ways that a lot of movie reviewers gloss over. Yes, its derivative and mundane, but its not your typical Santa Clause movie. Where the magic starts flat builds with flashes and flare as the magic goes from dream to realistic and empowering mirroring Tim Allen's transformation. If this would have been written by others or even with a different lead say Tom Hanks or a Will Ferrel the comedy styling and whimsy wouldn't have grown with the main character they had to grow into the magic. This rugged to Santa transformation is nice. Yet the biggest thing that they did with no plans for a sequel was to actually not have Scott and his ex-wife not get back together at the end. For a Norm McDonalds character to not be the super serious, stern unbeliever that gets his in the end. Neil is a fun play on the usual troupe that lends dry humor based on his dry attitude.

Ok movie, hated the sequels.

i love this movie i truly think that if Santa's North Pole existed, this is how it would be to me, it's pretty realistic. not too crazy like most kids christmas movies

1:40 I was in love with this girl when I was a kid.

The children did not take jobs away from little people because the roles were written for children. Children do have an innocence that most adults don't have. These children hit that innocence perfectly. Like the breathless, disbelieving gasps that they gave when Scott said there was no such thing as Santa Claus - right there in his own workshop. Also, elves have been done plenty of times. It was nice to see a different take on it. Think of it this way, when Judy had told Scott she was seeing somebody in wrapping, the felt was a lot different (like more creepy) with her being played by a child than with her being played by a little person, right? Also, I LOVE the irony of Bernard, the head Christmas elf, being played by a Jew! That was something I missed as a teen, I wish I hadn't because then I could have laugh and enjoyed that bit of irony, too.

Neils a great cook Yea you should see him walk on water Just rewatched this film for the first time and years and never noticed that line. It made me crack.up

i like this movie its my guilty pleasure

still one of my favorite Christmas movies ever even though the Sequels are Okay but the first one is still the best one

It seemed odd with Tim being forced to be Santa and his son ruining his life.

I love this movie

i still wanna see a horror take on this. the santa CLAWS his way into theaters this december.

I love this one

1st one: decent movie 2nd one: bad but not unwatchable 3rd one: fucking awful

... And, you know, there are a lot more children than there are little people.

What if Dante Basco was one of the elves. That was the vibe I got from the dreadlocks one.

the only thing that really surprised me about this movie is that, well given how obvious the story beats were, i was expecting that scene where the dad lies to the kid to spare his feelings aka split them apart before the final act, so when that didn’t happen i was pleasantly surprised but apart from that it’s just flavorless

Personally, I think the story is kind of a timeless classic. Not in that this rendition is a timeless classic, but in that the story itself is set up as a timeless classic. It explains a lot of the decisions to me - Disney was attempting to create a modern day christmas tale to be put up there with Rudolph, Frosty, etc. Did they succeed? Eh, I like it myself, but until we see remakes and retellings and versions that simplify it to the core and so on, I would not say they succeeded

The movie does have its charm in places but the problem I have with it is the kid Charlie. I just found him so annoying. When his dad takes over as Santa, what does Charlie do? He starts blabbing to everyone that his dad is Santa. Everytime he opens his trap, I just wish he would shut the hell up. The way I see it, it's his fault that his dad had his custodial rights taken off him. Not only is Charlie a blabbermouth, he gets pretty selfish as well as he wants to be with his dad/Santa all the time without giving a crap of what his mum thinks. When he finally decides to not be selfish and let his dad/Santa go and do his job, he goes back to being selfish 10 mins later. What an annoying brat.

oh my god it's been 21 years and just now I realised it was "Clause"

I really loved this movie as a kid, but in my country the name is translated and changed to"Mutta mitä tapahtui joulupukille" which means "But What Happen to The Santa Claus"; so I thought long that was really the name of the movie and couldn't find it anywhere xD

Watched 1/2 of it yikes 😱 ❤😂😊😊!

I dont care what people think this is my favorite christmas movie 10/10

I actually really liked the original Santa Clause movie since i was little, and even though i mostly agree with doug's take, i still really like it. I like that its not too comedic, because as a kid it made me feel like there was a way santa could really be real, even when i knew he wasnt. I think the film would work better as more of a lilo and stitch thing. if tim was a single dad and charlie was being taken away for his dad seeming to let himself go and falling into delusion. i mean, him trying to connect harder makes sense since he has limited custody or whatever, but him going out of his way to convince people hes real and enforcing the magic aspect is what i think makes people cringe about it. There are a lot of good moments in this film, especially when he's transitioning into santa, but it really is pretty predictable after that :/

This many years and I've never noticed the e at the end of Clause in the title, just that there was a clause in the movie.

I know it's not an objectively great film, but I still love it. XD

This movie had a bit of potential, but man, that whole (way over done and too long) section of not believing him and him having to prove otherwise was SUCH a pain. It could of otherwise been a halfway decent film if not for that.

it's funny how so many people get offended just because a person says they're offended by something. that's pretty counterproductive.

My biggest problem with this movie was that the kid actors were incredibly annoying for a good chunk of the film.

Not bad for a Tim Allen Christmas movie.

A classic Xmas movie, but that's about it.

i just thought the elves themselves were what made the movie in each of the movies, just seemed like they were the fun characters, like the Minions in Despicable Me

I watched this movie this morning for the first time in a few years. I forgot how corny some parts were.

Offended because children took parts of little people ???? Really ? Doug grow a pair.

The kid is the problem. He was the one who was all trying to get people to believe him. Other than that, it's a fair good Christmas film. It's the way the story is told, not the fact it's repeated. History's repeated, after all.

Love this movie! Hate the sequels, well hate 2, eh with 3. The 3rd one was somewhat better and had an interesting concept. Going back to the past, and gives us the perspective that Scott Calvin a.k.a Santa, does not listen to his son and doesn't put the suit on, and gives us a new timeline. I have to say very good one, somewhat.

So will there be a Christmas movie where Peter Dinklage plays all the elfs?

Critic really missed the element of this being an emotionally-complex divorced-parent film that didn’t go with the whole “deadbeat dad is a loser” trope OR the “step parent is a malicious jerk” stereotype. You really can see everyone’s perspective in the film. The Santa thing is kind of a metaphor. Like, did he not notice this?

I really did enjoy it I dont mo about the 2ent one or the 3erd but this one was good I thought

"1-800-Spank-Me, I know that number"

This movie ruined my spelling. I thought Santa Claus was spelled with an E

I hate this movie because now people on the internet spell "Santa Claus" wrong. I also hate Ludacris for similar reasons.

I like this movie but I find it weird no one cares that the last santa died

It’s Hilarious!!!

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The biggest element I hate in this movie is the stereotypical child moans about getting what he wants, learns nothing and gets what he wants in the end. Everything else wasn't bad, though...

You can tell he wasn’t a little kid in the mid 90s. He hates almost all the movies I grew up with.