Not About To Meet Your Expectations

The Escape Clause is the third installment in the Santa Clause trilogy, the first of which has become a Christmas favorite and very funny, but the second was less enjoyable and by the third the trilogy has lost its appeal completely. Full of corny jokes and mediocre performances, it seemed this sequel was only made for the sake of making a sequel.
In the film, Scott Calvin (Also known as Santa) is obliviously facing the possibility of losing his big red suit to the power-hungry Jack Frost. Not suspecting his friend of deviance, Scott is easily fooled into surrendering his position as Santa Claus.
I felt the beginning moved slowly. There was a lot of information of very little importance. Mrs. Claus is expecting, and her parents are fooled into thinking the North Pole is Canada, Santa is stressed out to the breaking point, and so much is going on, and so little of it has anything to do with the plot. Once we finally reach the story itself, the speed of the movie quickens ridiculously, to the point where, if all the extra fluff was shaved off, we could be left with a twenty-minute film and would miss little or nothing.