Review: Kurt Russell delivers more Claus and effects in Netflix's 'The Christmas Chronicles: Part Two'

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The movie’s more sustained bout of time travel finds Santa and Kate whooshing randomly back to 1990 Boston, where stranded airline passengers need an uptick in Christmas spirit. And that's not all

a painless dose of yuletide pablum that Netflix subscribers lapped up back in 2018, Santa Claus returns home after a busier-than-usual Christmas Eve and settles in for a well-earned night of R&R with Mrs. Claus. It would be an unremarkable moment if it weren’t for the casting:as a hipper, hotter but still plenty traditional Santa, with a trimmer-than-usual build but that essential twinkle of merriment gratifyingly intact. And Mrs.

None of this has come to pass in “The Christmas Chronicles: Part Two,” an unremarkable if far from unpleasant sequel arriving just in time to brighten your locked-down holiday festivities. For better or worse, the kids stay in the picture, and the directing reins have passed from Clay Kaytis to the, who has an obvious track record with children, fantasy and holiday-centric mayhem.

Darby Camp is back as Kate Pierce, the high-spirited young girl who went for a fateful ride in Santa’s sleigh in the first “Chronicles” — a journey that dispensed some much-needed uplift for her and her older brother, Teddy , still grieving their dad’s untimely death. As the sequel opens, Kate is miserably enduring the First World horrors of a Christmas holiday in sunny Cancún with Teddy and their mom, Claire .

 

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I couldn't watch 5 minutes of it. So bad.

More good news please(((

Shit, let me go back to 1990 and have a do-over. please?

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