Metacritic Movie Ratings
The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause Reviews

A sample of reviews from critics across the country.

• 60

  out of 100

  Los Angeles TimesGene Seymour

  As a full-service holiday movie, The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause gets you into the mood to shop early and often by making the North Pole look like a shopping mall with a never-ending school pageant.

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• 50

  out of 100

  VarietyJustin Chang

  Not unlike the shiny snow globe at its center, The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause is a thing of consummate craftsmanship, a smoothly engineered and fundamentally lifeless object that's nevertheless capable of giving even the grinchiest moviegoers a brief attack of the warm-and-fuzzies.

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• 50

  out of 100

  Entertainment Weekly

  This Styrofoam snowman of a sequel overdoses on its own candy-cane-colored sugary cheer.

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• 40

  out of 100

  The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt

  To borrow a cliche from another medium, Santa might have jumped the shark.

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• 30

  out of 100

  The New York TimesManohla Dargis

  One of the good things about bad movies is that when someone sneers about the unworthiness of a perfectly mediocre film like, say, "Crash," you can turn to a seriously unworthy film like, say, The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause and laugh. Ho. Ho. Ho.

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