Why is the Santa Clause 3 (we may have started a cult)

[@AmandaTheJedi]

I'd HATE to see the things Jack Frost is using Surfshark to do... BUT YOU can take advantage of their exclusive Holiday deal to get up to 6 months free by using code JEDI at surfshark.deals/jedi ! What's your favorite Christmas movie?

[@doclewis8927]

REQUEST: Would you ever cover the Christmas movie "Scrooged" with Bill Murray? I know it's out of the realm of most of the movies and books that you cover but there's a good lesson in it. A few of them in fact.

[@moxiemaxie3543]

I've been binge watching your reviews b/c I've been distracted. Has anyone seen "The Sweetest Thing"

[@johnnythewalrus]

Favorite Christmas movie would either be this or Home Alone. And @doclewis8927, I think you mean "A Christmas Carol" has good lessons, as Scrooged is just a remake with the same lessons...

[@Antonio-ys5zd]

Sadly Amanda you missed the point of Scott's journey as Santa. He is the perfect candidate. Santa must both know how to be humble and find joy in life but must also know when things are wrong and just necessarily bad actions. Otherwise you end up with a Santa that is far too nice to never have a naughty list or the toy Santa who out everyone on the naughty list. Scott was the middle ground, a balanced character and it makes sense to teach him this lesson year after year so he'll be the best Santa he can be. Also the suit wouldn't work on women. Would destroy the legend of Santa Claus

[@keyblademasterclark]

The Santa Clause is secretly a horror movie. Think about it. This guy is FORCED to become Father Christmas, abandon his family, his life, everything he knows to become a slave to the contract that he UNKNOWINGLY entered simply by putting on the suit. The elves don't really care that the previous Santa is dead, if anything they're annoyed they have to train this new guy, and in SC2 we find out that every Santa HAS to have a Mrs. Clause. What happened to the previous Mrs. Clause? What if the new Santa turns out to be gay? WHAT IF A KID PUTS ON THE SANTA SUIT? Seriously, that movie is fucked up if you think about it

[@trinaq]

Agreed, they obviously don't take the new Santa's sexual orientation or desire to stay single into account. The elves seemingly getting over the previous Santa's death is addressed in the spin off series.

[@AmandaTheJedi]

Then that kid would be cool as hell

[@keyblademasterclark]

@@trinaq yeah, I'm not watching that.

[@Chadwickzilla]

This is the Silent Night, Deadly Night reboot we really need.

[@keyblademasterclark]

@@AmandaTheJedi Ok, you're not wrong, but imagine being forced to live away from your friends and family at such a young age. Imagine some high school kid who no longer believes in Santa goes through what Scott did in the first film. On top of that, there's the Mrs. Claus clause. Is...whoever enforces the rules of the Santa clause REALLY going to force a 14 or 15 year old kid to get married?

[@trinaq]

The sequence where Scott never became Santa should have been the main plot. Instead, it only takes up about 15 minutes, and Carol doesn't even appear.

[@Starkid_hanners]

There should’ve been a George Bailey situation where he tries talking to her and absolutely freaks her out

[@thepikarivera7706]

I agree! I enjoy the movie but that would've been more interesting.

[@dylantennant6594]

Would have been cool to see how everyone is effected. According to the second movie, Scott is pretty much the one holding the council of magical beings together, what if when Jack takes over, they all fall apart as well meaning everything about them faiils.

[@ashikjaman1940]

Holy shit I just realized that's pretty much the plot of Shrek 4

[@thereallocke8065]

I always assumed it was. Man I need to see Shrek 4

[@Tuaron]

8:15 Obviously Scott's former boss accidentally killed Father Time between the first and second movies, and so he has become the new Father Time. Those are the rules in the Santa Clause universe, right?

[@DalithaMW]

I want a spinoff of that guy How did you kill the Lord of Time

[@BryceEdwardBrown]

Finally, someone addressing the geopolitical issues between the US, North Pole and Canada.

[@shirleymaemattthews4862]

C'mon folks, make up where Santa is! Lapland, North Pole, Greenland, Alaska?!? come on!

[@affirmingtoe15]

I feel like the north pole would be a City State similar to the Vatican.

[@Idkpleasejustletmechangeit]

@@affirmingtoe15 probably more like a mix of Vatican and Monaco/Singapore. Similarities to Vatican are that the head of state and essentially dictator also has a ceremonial role that is relevant in other countries(although the way that they get chosen differ quite a lot). Similarities to Monaco and Singapore are that it is an actual city with an actual population(although they are all just child slaves that work in the equivalent of the coal mines).

[@zephyr8072]

Historically the North Pole was always Russian.

[@ChristopherSadlowski]

​@@zephyr8072 so what I'm hearing is that Santa drinks vodka? Yes?

[@Jack-sy8mr]

Jack Frost like, causes winter, right? So with his heart melted, will there just be no winter? Did Lucy cause global warming?😂😂

[@jacquelinecallejas1390]

Now that you said it, I have a new theory of why it didn't snow last year in NY (when I've had 2 feet of snow in one go sometimes in the past) and SO FAR we are only one week from Christmas and we are getting a LOT of rain. (As I type it has been warm enough to rain ALL DAY in NY) . You may be on to something.

[@judeconnor-macintyre9874]

If the Santa Clause position is transferred maybe the Jack Frost position can be to.

[@GlitchyHalo]

This is why I didn’t like when they “redeemed” him they completely butchered his look and gave him Mr. Bean hair wish there was a way for him to be nicer without his heart having to be melted. If Mother Nature couldn’t melt Jack could she melt the parents

[@ceedoda]

Yes she did

[@jjjjj4787]

this made me laugh so hard i gotta be so real with you 😂

[@ajjamsen694]

Plot twist : the real reason Scott was keeping Laura and Neil together was by continual fueling their hatred of him

[@PanAndScanBuddy]

At least a few years of course.

[@Desaki65]

"Rough time for women out there on the pole..." * nods *

[@jacquelinecallejas1390]

Do you think she intended the double entendre with strippers or am I reading too much into it?

[@arcadia7459]

It's always been my theory that the original Mrs Claus was taking out into the wilderness and killed by Bernard the moment Santa died

[@mrcritical6751]

There was no previous Mrs Claus, it’s covered in the Disney+ series

[@diffjuns323]

​@@mrcritical6751yeah that's what they tell us but We Know

[@jacquelinecallejas1390]

Maybe she is expected to perform Sati (the Hindu practice of a widow burning herself alive when her husband dies).

[@mrcritical6751]

@@diffjuns323 know what?

[@diffjuns323]

@@mrcritical6751 joking that we know they covered up Mrs. Claus's death

[@Deus_ex_lucifina]

That blip of ya’ll doing Tim Allen night was SO cursed. Right down to the satanic lighting and cutting the cake like a serial killer. You have good peeps in your life dear. 💛 happy holidays!

[@AmandaTheJedi]

It's literally so funny that we just do that for fun and it happens to make good content

[@davidunderwood1773]

Does the party go nuts when evil Santa appears or do they not like him?

[@aliciabell6688]

​@@AmandaTheJediMerry Christmas Amanda, May you have a wonderful time with your family and friends.

[@Artifying]

Bernard is the best character hands down and it’s a crime that he’s not in the third movie.

[@davidunderwood1773]

@@Artifying Without a doubt Bernard is a legend.

[@22kitten33]

I had a huge crush on Bernard and was so upset and confused about him being inexplicably gone from the 3rd movie.

[@tabathaalshalhoub1653]

I had a huge crush on him from the Addams Family Values movie and was so excited to see him in the Santa Clause.

[@22kitten33]

@tabathaalshalhoub1653 omg I totally forgot he was in that movie! I think I also had a crush on him then.

[@victoriagarcia3078]

Same

[@ashlieearl3617]

I thought I was just a werido for having a crush on Bernard as a kid... so glad to see at least 79 other people agreed with me😂

[@SunflowerLilypad]

Yup. Absolutely this. I immediately tuned out in the theater. 😂😂 I hated curtis to begin with.

[@sunnytheo]

While the council of legendary figures is unnecessary the way I was SO in love with Mother Nature as a kid from like the two minutes that she’s on screen lol

[@loveschaak260]

Fair cap, Aisha Tyler is a gift and a gem

[@LadyHitchhiker42]

Same😊

[@victoriam9242]

the image of her is burned into my memory she looked absolutely stunning! She always reminds me of Beyoncé at the 2017 Grammy Awards i think about it monthly. I want to be her for Halloween.

[@ninjanibba4259]

The council is absolutely necessary

[@AK-jt9gx]

That beautiful actress and every single person that worked to style her for this film went WAY above and beyond what was asked of them… and I so wish she was in a much better movie that actually focused on her

[@Mediados]

The off-key singing made Tim Allen Night really look like a cult. I strive to be like Tim Allen, being weird enough so people will start a culture around me.

[@jacquelinecallejas1390]

I got the cult vibe too from that clip. They are wearing Tim Allen cut out masks and using a Michael Myers sized knife to cut cake. Made me think they'd be going out to do The Purge any minute.

[@gregbors8364]

You can start by getting arrested for dealing coke

[@christianwise637]

@@gregbors8364 Don't forget to narc on your fellow dealers in exchange for a lighter sentence

[@ChristopherSadlowski]

::checks comment date:: It's been about three months, how's it going? Did you get your first cult member yet?

[@hayleygrace9137]

I was 100% unprepared for the footage of Tim Allen night but I am immediately wanting to bring this tradition to my friend group.

[@myfootballjesus]

as For Santa Clause 2 .... why did the elves wait SEVEN years to tell him he needed to get married?? they wait till 30 days before the deadline??

[@loganbigmo]

didn't they wait EIGHT years?

[@mrcritical6751]

Because Curtis forgot to tell him, Curtis sucks at his job

[@thepikarivera7706]

​@@mrcritical6751he also told Jack Frost how the Escape Clause works lol

[@LynetteTheMadScientist]

Maybe they figured he had better game

[@BullerPerson]

Probaly because elves learnt about the myth of mrs claus

[@joshsikorski]

I died when Jack Frost says “did you just accuse me of being skillful and delicious? Guilty.”

[@marykateandnoashley]

Glad to know I am not the only one who has a Santa hat that appears all year and vanishes in December.

[@benzaiten933]

it'll show up in the middle of January as if nothing had happened.

[@Katy133]

13:30 - Okay, not gonna lie, but as a Canadian, seeing a Santa's elf wearing a ROOTS scarf to disguise themselves as a human is very very funny. XD

[@jacquelinecallejas1390]

Glad you weren't offended. I KNOW it is dumb, but I just found that subplot funny. In a way you can say it is making fun of American ignorance of Canada if that helps.

[@nickmesogianes4638]

Ill admit that as a kid, i liked SC 3 for some strange reason. I think it was due to Martin Short being slightly unhinged and the blooper reel at the ending. But now...ohhh boy 😅

[@shouldbewritig]

Martin Short being unhinged is genuinely fun, I don’t like the 3rd movie but I do enjoy Martin’s chaos

[@Ashicakez3]

Santa Clause 3 was my favourite as a kid too because of Martin Short as Jack Frost lol

[@abhainn35]

I didn't watch any of these movies as a kid, but I watched 1 and 3 recently and to be honest, I liked SC 3 way more. It's less competent and well written than the first, but it's so much more fun and went off the rails. Martin Short was obviously the highlight, but I liked the horrible attempt to make the North Pole Canada and the legendary figure council. The first SC felt too generic and had that same "the true meaning of Christmas is the friends we made along the way and you just have to believe" message that every single Chrismas movie has. Oh, and I hated the kid.

[@Ilostbestgirltoacar]

Yeah, The Santa Clause gave my 5 year old self an existential crisis, and I had a full on panic attack on Christmas Eve and made my dad promise never to abandon me to become Santa while bawling my eyes out, that is one of my first memory of having a panic attack and it may not have been funny then, but it is now 😅

[@LittleMissLion]

Oh no, you poor thing!! 😅

[@haydenwilder2221]

Amanda, I am here to assure you were absolutely not alone in assuming "Santa Claus" having an "e" because of this franchise. (Though in my partial defense, I celebrated Hanukkah lol)

[@BubblegumGorgon]

...how did I not notice that it only has the e here & it's for the sake of the pun/copyright...I saw it so young I just absorbed that as his name oh no 😭

[@darththespian4856]

The footage from Tim Allen night is truly cursed and I love it

[@heynae2016]

Im actually more interested in Jack Frosts' lore, and how exactly he came to be that. In the process of his heart being warmed, he said "But they told me it couldn't be done." Which kind of implies he was "given" his role in a similar sense that Scott had - involuntarily, and when asked how to undo it, it was proved naught - at least at that time.

[@GlitchyHalo]

I wish there was a way for him to be nicer without having to give up his look because the hair and his suit looked really cool Jack was the only good thing to come out of the movie

[@heynae2016]

@@GlitchyHalo honestly, yeah, everything else was awkward

[@GlitchyHalo]

@@heynae2016 especially Jack Frost being horny for the mother in law that was funny but awkward 😭

[@GlitchyHalo]

@@heynae2016 it was a shame as he didn’t reappear in The Santa Clauses but I’m afraid they would ruin him more than they already did at the end of the movie I don’t think any of the legendary figures were in the show Idk if he still counts as a legendary figure as he lost anything that made him Jack Frost even his powers which couldn’t be undone unless he unfreezes I doubt he becomes heat miser or whatever is the opposite of Jack he’s just a guy with pointy ears

[@Mr_Case_Time]

I saw The Santa Clause 2 for the first time recently and was not prepared AT ALL for a dictator in that movie.

[@somerandolad]

Robot Santa was terrifying.

[@trinaq]

Me neither, that robot Santa always creeped me out as a child!

[@unropednope4644]

Trump was in it??

[@Mr_Case_Time]

@@unropednope4644 yeah but I think he was one of the elves. Why?

[@BlindZubat]

That Tim Allen party sounds like pure chaos.

[@mygoldenwitch]

18:28 THE WAY I CHOKED WHEN WE SAID IT AT THE SAME TIME. is Amanda a stealth Ryan George fan? I WANT TO BELIEVE. And now I low-key need a collab between all my favourite Canadian youtubers.

[@Witchy_Cheree1982]

YES

[@RB-vo4gi]

The first Santa Claus movie was pretty good, outside of the horror of Scott being forced to become Santa against his will. It feels like the more lore they add, the less it makes sense. Something that this video has also made me think of is… didn’t Jack Frost need to find a wife too?

[@jacquelinecallejas1390]

I don't remember the details. How long was Jack Frost Santa? Because I do remember that there was a space of time in which Scott needed to find the wife. Maybe Jack Frost still had time to and WOULD do it if he had stayed Santa.

[@ghosthallgremlin]

@@jacquelinecallejas1390 theoretically he'd have been santa as long as scott had. having put on the suit in 1994 instead of scott and so while the movie doesn't go through it he technically would have lived through those years and they'd count as time served.

[@RB-vo4gi]

@@jacquelinecallejas1390 Jack Frost is Santa for the same amount of time as Scott is, right? Because he gets the suit at the same time Scott would have and then they time jump back to the “present”. So he should have already needed to find a wife.

[@ashikjaman1940]

He's married to Elsa /s

[@valolafson6035]

That's a good question.

[@timpage9424]

Can we talk about the fact that the actor who plays Bernard absolutely CRUSHED it in Oppenheimer this year? Didn't even realize it was him until I was looking at the cast later.

[@jacquelinecallejas1390]

I watched Numbers for many episodes before I realized the genius brother was Bernard.

[@lala-4458]

Also he has such an elf like face

[@trinaq]

It's a shame that Bernard wasn't even mentioned in this movie, since David Krumholtz had scheduling conflicts with NUMB3RS. He was basically replaced with Curtis, though luckily he returned in the Disney Plus show.

[@mrcritical6751]

I believe he is mentioned once, Jack Frost says Bernard is gone when he tries tricking Curtis into telling him about The Escape Clause

[@lainiwakura1776]

Thanks for repeating what Amanda already pointed out.

[@Mskittenlover12]

The second season of the show explains Bernard leaving as a mandatory leave known as Kribble Krabble which apparently all head elves have to go on eventually and a lot of them, including Bernard, just chose to never come back. 🙃

[@cream476]

I feel like that's the north pole equivalent of telling a child their pet has gone to live on the farm lol

[@Mskittenlover12]

@@cream476 Fair comparison but the elves are very much alive during and after Kribble Krabble. The series head elf is seen on it and Bernard can be seen briefly alive and well in the first season. ✌🏻

[@cream476]

@@Mskittenlover12 I know. It's just they way it was explained sounded like it lol

[@tacowolf1765]

@@cream476 it sounds like Amish rumspringa, which makes it even more random

[@heidiwagner2284]

I thought he couldn't come back because he fell in love with a human and chose to become mortal

[@TrogdorBurnin8or]

You have to see this at Home Depot with the Christmas decorations - "Home Accents Holiday 6 ft. Animated LED Jack Frost". Totally some kind of nightmare Halloween adaptation of this character.

[@loganbigmo]

As a Canadian, I just don't register the Canadian references in this movie. The real "Santa Clause Canadian references" to me is the fact that they filmed the first movie in & around Toronto, and that the "Denny's" in the first movie was actually a Swiss Chalet they slightly redecorated.

[@Psyteth]

That was an actual Dennys on Ellesmere Rd when it was filmed.

[@loganbigmo]

@@Psyteth Interesting. I had always read it was a Swiss Chalet. Even IMDB said that back in the day (yes I know, IMDB isn't entirely factual). But now that I google it, there's like 10 things saying it was a Swiss Chalet, but the top site says it was a Denny's on Ellesmere and the second (IMDB Trivia) now says that it was indeed a Denny's on Ellesmere but was "mistakeningly recorded as a Swiss Chalet dressed to be Denny's for many years." So I guess... thanks for updating my information!

[@Sate12]

Maybe Jack Frost was really offended about how they portrayed Canada and his real master plan was to get the elves to stop saying "Eh."

[@Didi_A_Gogo]

The Santa airplane is a thing of beauty. I had to pause the video and just drink it in.

[@rmounged]

I worked in a theatre projection booth when SC3 came out and had to screen the print. Watching this movie alone in an empty theatre at midnight was the closest I felt to being in hell

[@RaisonLychi]

The santafication process is like a magical parasite that changes you physically and mentally.

[@CyanidePusher]

It's like an ilithid mindflayer parasite, only more Christmas 🎄✨ is it really a BEARD?? 🤔

[@emuanon34]

So for the first few years of my life the Martian Short Jack Frost was for me the definitive version of the character up until 2012 when Rise of the Guardians released.

[@Rhialia]

My version of jack frost was that old tv special until Rise of the guardians came out

[@fox7378]

Same haha

[@cricketcalin]

See, my family unironically LOVES Santa Claus 2 (not so much the first movie). We watch it every year. We quote throwaway lines year round (see you in about 8 minutes, noodles and pie). That is our holiday movie.

[@tmntaddict]

Shrek is art, Shrek is life. Shrek reigns as the supreme metaphor over your missing ill-fitting santa hat in the night.

[@maem7462]

The Santa Clause movies were iconic not necessarily bc they were good but bc it was an experience. Some were good and others weren’t looking back at the movies. All of them have some wild and fun scenes

[@davidking8744]

The Santa clause 3 is the ONLY one I genuinely remember watching every single year because I always missed the first two movies on TV during the marathons 😭😭 lots of core Christmas memories linked to this movie

[@BuzzieeTheMarsmellow]

I LOVED this movie as a child. HOW DID I NOT PICK UP ON ANY OF THIS 😭 😭 😭

[@starophie]

the lucy hate is absolutely uncalled for. liliana mumy is fantastic and adorable and must be protected!

[@lainiwakura1776]

I've only ever seen the first one, I was 8 when it came out, and I was too old for the later ones. Your Tim Allen night should include Home Improvement Christmas episodes, and maybe Jungle 2 Jungle.

[@Karragh]

The thing about the original The Santa Clause that I can't get over is that Santa is objectively real, presents show up from Santa every year that the parents KNOW they did not buy. And yet all of the adults in that universe do not believe in Santa.

[@rulerzreachf4n34]

That’s always been the weirdest part of so many Christmas movies… what do you mean you don’t believe in Santa??? Who tf is putting all those presents under the tree because it definitely wasn’t you??? Like the end of Polar Express when the parents are shown to not believe after the kids opened up a shitton of presents FROM SANTA 😭

[@EJandEF4ever]

You were not the only one who thought Santa Claus was spelled Santa Clause because of this movie, it happened to me too!

[@stevegeorge6880]

Am I the only person who now wants Amanda to accost people in the manner of a bank robber while wearing that hat and force them into an acapella cover of Smash Mouth's All Star?

[@BlindZubat]

Don’t give her ideas…

[@Scatscar1985]

Yes, you are.

[@maddiedoesntkno]

@@Scatscar1985not anymore

[@sandythemaster6898]

I don't know why but I never really felt the christmas spirit quite in my life until I saw the mostly okay stocking hanging on spiderman's foot while hearing Amanda's delightful and not at all awkward '''oh hello, I didn't see you there''. Then, the christmas spirit exploded with the Tim Allen chant... damn this is going to be a good day!

[@Gayditor]

my memory of this film is like a half-forgotten dream. i’m surprised it actually exists.

[@LangGuessr]

It feels like the new lore from the Disney+ series was meant to answer questions like "what if a bad guy put on the suit" or "what if the new Santa was gay", but it also raises more questions like "why didn't they just pick someone who was already married, or at least make the Mrs Clause actually visible and obvious right from the start, rather than him having to rush around at the last minute and potentially destroy Christmas"

[@judeconnor-macintyre9874]

My theory on why Scott Boyle is Father Time is because Scott Boyle shot Father Time on his roof then put on Father Time's jacket and became the new Father Time.

[@njschulze514]

As a child, this was specifically the one that always seemed to be on in the background. I’ve seen this movie so many times that it’s forever burned into my brain.

[@redroC171]

as a fellow millennial my favorite is also the first one, although I will admit I have trouble going back and watching Tim Allen movies because of how much of a horrible shithead he is in real life

[@gregoryvn3]

The clip of the Tim Allen night looks like the scariest cult I've seen this month.

[@lizayufereva1404]

Amanda, have you seen Anna and the apocalypse? I just found it, and it is absolutely amazing! It is a Zombie Christmas Musical 😂

[@robobeetlepanzer]

Maybe the inlaws just accept the fireplace because they think Scott is really into Zardoz?

[@jonasquinn7977]

I’m with you Amanda, for years I thought there was an E at the end and only got the pun a few years ago

[@jsc315]

Martin Short always makes any awful movie he's in so much more entertaining.

[@GlitchyHalo]

Frost was the only enjoyable character and yeah that horny scene with the mil made me cringe everytime but I still loved Frost hated his redeemed look

[@elodee3]

I was not ready for the footage of Tim Allen night. Amazing

[@tash4270]

I have friends who have a similar cult but for the Sharknado movies. When I tell you, the levels of decorating and food prep they have going on for it is just incredible 😂 10/10

[@LynetteTheMadScientist]

“What’re you gonna do? Cute me to death?” - Man who gets hugged into submission

[@TheAllieBuba]

Amanda, you're my favorite reviewer. And honestly hope this career is something we can all look forward to watching you grow more within. .very insightful, keeps it real.

[@Jackthefolf_245]

I was always so happy as a kid when Christmas came, now I'm cranky and just want to go back to bed.

[@hichewshrimp]

I remember seeing this movie in the theaters when it came out when I was 6yrs old with my mom and when Jack Frost froze the parents, it scared me so much that my mom took me out of the theater and we left. I didn't see the ending until years later

[@rockingbrowneyedgirl]

I need a Tim Allen night.

[@eleftheriak.8889]

That clip from tim allen night? Changed my life?

[@darrenm.7980]

I remember watching the trilogy every year as a kid until I realized how not so good the sequels were.

[@shanedaley6236]

The trilogy is all there is no TV show while I get the other two have their problems they are so much fun I love how Scott never misses a chance to make fun of Neal as I would also he's like ned Flanders an easy target

[@cricketpickett666]

Thank you for mentioning that extremely creepy fireplace! When I first saw this I was like wtf is that thing?! Makes no sense 😂🙃

[@mrmr446]

Some of my favourite reviews on here are those that feel like a really enjoyable warning.

[@Nicho213007]

I've never heard of this franchise but then again Tim Allen has never done it for me as an actor whatsoever

[@sunnyostrom4898]

Actually, your choice of hat was very fitting! Escape Clause is basically bad Shrek 2. Power hungry "helper" cons protagonist to make a wish that undid the events of the first movie, putting "helper" in the seat of power.

[@asukalangley6494]

Granted I never thought the Santa Clause movies sounded particularly interesting myself (Yeah, boo hiss me) but I kinda always thought that the elves WERE Santa's children. Granted the last thing you need is to have one of your elf children sitting around, reading books on dentistry going, "I want to be a dentist!", but hey, I digress, The Rankin Bass stuff always rocked Christmas for me, personally. Tim Allen kinda ruined stuff for me with the AR AR stuff what the heck was up with that anyway? Not a Tim Allen hate fest but just never did much for me in my opinion. Bah hunbug anyway....

[@TheArcWielder]

I still believe that TS3 is my favorite of the trilogy just for the fact of how bonkers it truly is when compared to the other two

[@astridmyst]

The Santa Clause series is a nightmare wrapped up in Christmas tinsel trying to make it seem like a family movie.. and I love it. I've watched these every year since I was a kid. #1 is always the best

[@amandatyler]

This whole review is spot on and made me remember things from my youth that I thought were fever dreams. Except for the tip that they should have timed it so they don't have a baby on Christmas - maybe Santa has some kind of special magic for that, but for the rest of us mere mortals, even when you try and plan it, it doesn't really work that way 😂

[@sharlesdaviskendy2391]

I’ve been waiting for someone, anyone, to roast the Santa Clauses show because I saw one episode and it was awful and I’m dying of curiosity but I don’t want to watch it and just seeing a mention of it here already warms my heart.

[@Draugo]

Why is this the point where I realize that the guy in Numbers was Bernard. I even watched that show pretty actively.

[@ironwolf56]

6:05 kind of the other way around. The show confirms this whole Santa Clause thing has happened a bunch of times and the previous Claus had only been SC since like the 1920s or something. It also addressed the question of the former Mrs Claus (she retired too)

[@notamberp]

The Santa Clause has always been my favorite Christmas movie as well, but the sequels….. 😅 So glad you covered this! lol. Happy holidays, Amanda, hope they’ve been wonderful so far 💚

[@mariaskabardonis8353]

I like the first two Santa Clauses I find them cute and heartwarming. The 3rd one I find crazy I don’t think Scott would have been a absentee Dad without Santa it’s to farfetched

[@JohnWilliams-wl9px]

Based of how distant Scott was in the first movie, it’s was not a malicious thing. Charlie really doesn’t like his dad that much in the first film, until he became Santa. Cause then Scott was spending more time with him. I think the idea was suppose to be a ‘cat and the cradle’. Charlie simply got more distant as he got older, Scott just dismissed as he was too busy to notice how big the divide got. Really shows how much missed potential the 3rd film had with the alternate timeline that only 15 minutes.

[@mariaskabardonis8353]

@@JohnWilliams-wl9px I didn’t see Scott as absentee in the first movie he was trying to include Charlie as much as possible. It was just hard cause of his job and the remarriage was new and they were trying to find the new dynamic. I don’t believe Charlie didn’t like the Dad he just prefered the mom and Neal cause he was seeing them more. Scott was a workaholic but I don’t believe he would completely neglect Charlie it was to much of an exaggeration. I do agree if they made the what if longer they could have explained things better

[@mrbubbies_]

It took you mentioning the tv series like 5 times for it to register in my head that they made a series

[@Five_star_funky]

Bernard the elf was the best part of this entire trilogy.

[@constantreader1422]

a tim allen night sounds absolutely goddamn terrifying. 😂

[@solarianvoid-pi9428]

I recently explained to my (monolingual) parents that this movie’s title is a pun. It could have been translated to German but wasn’t. And it’s crazy how many jokes and wordplays I catch nowadays when I’m genuinely fluent in English.

[@shouldbewritig]

I’m just picturing them evicting the former Mrs. Claus 😂 also, is toy Scott just… low key bad AI?

[@GlitchyHalo]

He’s basically Dude from Free Guy

[@ElementalWarlock]

While I agree with all your points in retrospect, SC3 was and still is my favorite of the 3 movies. Part of it being because I was 9 when it came out on dvd and I saw it. Another reason is probably due to my parents getting divorced when I was 6, so I didn't find the first movie as fun as 2 and 3 to watch due to the focus on divorce. Plus the council was one of my favorite additions. 2 isn't as good as 3 for me because I didn't like the toy Santa at all. Jack and Lucy are also a big part of why I liked 3 the most. Jack is funny and mischievous, while Lucy felt the most similar to me being a happy and optimistic person with a similar vibe of annoying I had at the time.

[@BlueBoboDoo100]

Plastic Santa from Santa Clause 2 is one of the greatest movie villains of all time, and you cannot convince me otherwise.

[@CharleyMarlowe]

I searched for The Santa Clause 3 hoping a video like this would come up and it didn't. Then it was recommended on my main page the next day. What is this algorithm ahaha Anyway this is exactly what I was looking for this Christmas, wonderful video, I love you (no parasomo), and Merry Christmas!

[@sydneybeth1977]

This was one of my favorite Christmas movies as a kid I can't lie. I also thought the "North Pole" song was an original so the first time I heard New York, New York I thought it was a parody

[@videohistory722]

I love what Nostalgia Critic said about Martin Sheens performance: "Am I David Tennanting this or Michael Sheening this." Not just for this performance, ALL of them!

[@doclewis8927]

REQUEST: Would you ever cover the Christmas movie "Scrooged" with Bill Murray? I know it's out of the realm of most of the movies and books that you cover but there's a good lesson in it. A few of them in fact.

[@alexroy5854]

Thank you so much for the Recess name drop, made me so happy :3

[@BalanceFreedomPiano]

“I get more out of a twenty minute Recess episode than this!” Okay, but that’s not fair, because Recess is pretty boss. I remember loving that as a kid, and I did just throw on a random episode the other day, and it was as good as I remember it being back in the 90’s.

[@MyDearBradley]

@amandathejedi no lie, the Easter Bunny was a true TRAUMATIC EVENT for me as a child. Also not super sure if you remember me, but I'm D3TOX's little brother? We used to pay COD back in the day with Bobby, Josh, and Bella? Anyway, I really love how far your KZbin career has come over the years and you're one of my girlfriend's favorite creators! Also hope you're having a fantastic holiday season!

[@kaistephens2694]

Why is the Santa Clause 3? Simple! Because life, hee... life, ho... Hee ho is not fair!

[@greenfox42]

18:27 gotta love our Canadian KZbinrs supporting one another 😂❤

[@B.-T.]

Super easy.

[@molly-katebritton9414]

tim allen night but it's cate blanchette night where we just watch carol over and over

[@Jordanisnthere]

It wasn't just you that thought it was spelled "Santa Clause", Amanda. It was a generation! I was born the year this came out, and because of it, I still think Santa Claus looks vaguely wrong lmao

[@elsie8757]

IT'S OKAY, AMANDA, I THOUGHT SANTA CLAUS HAD AN E AT THE END FOR THE LONGEST TIME TOO, AND I'M ALMOST POSITIVE IT WAS THIS SERIES' FAULT

[@stevegeorge6880]

My personal favorite Santa hat is the Groku Claus one that used to be popular in dollar stores a couple years ago. Edit: if you say barely an inconvenience three times in this episode, does Ryan George pop out as both producer guy and screenwriter guy?

[@mcw1907]

Yeah yeah yeah!

[@disgruntledmoderate5331]

Every time Amanda says barely an inconvenience, I think of Ryan George. 😂