Ironically, the most John Hughes-ish holiday movie is Hughes’ chief Christmas competitor, Buena Vista’s The Santa Clause. With an irreverent impudence, generous sprinkles of slap stick and traditional wrapping, this breezy presentation should tickle the funny bones of grade school kids as well as us older coots who enjoy Tim Allen’s acerbic antics. You don’t have to read the fine print in this Clause, only its broad strokes — it has family hit written all over it.
In this single-parent age, parttime dad Scott Calvin (Allen) is no Mrs. Doubtfire: A self-absorbed careerist, he has no overriding yearning to be with his young son Charlie…
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