{"id":2149162,"date":"2025-11-11T16:17:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T16:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2149162"},"modified":"2025-11-11T16:17:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T16:17:11","slug":"the-santa-clause-thrs-1994-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-santa-clause-thrs-1994-review\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Santa Clause\u2019: THR\u2019s 1994 Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On Nov. 11, 1994, Buena Vista<\/a> unveiled the Tim Allen<\/a> holiday starrer The Santa Clause in theaters, where it would go on to gross $144 million globally, launch two theatrical sequels and then a Disney+ spinoff series. The Hollywood Reporter\u2019s original review is below:<\/p>\n

Ironically, the most John Hughes<\/a>-ish holiday movie is Hughes\u2019 chief Christmas competitor, Buena Vista\u2019s The Santa Clause<\/a>. 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\u2019s acerbic antics. You don\u2019t have to read the fine print in this Clause, only its broad strokes \u2014 it has family hit written all over it.<\/p>\n

In this single-parent age, parttime dad Scott Calvin<\/a> (Allen) is no Mrs. Doubtfire: A self-absorbed careerist, he has no overriding yearning to be with his young son Charlie…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Nov. 11, 1994, Buena Vista unveiled the Tim Allen holiday starrer The Santa Clause in theaters, where it would go on to gross $144 million globally, launch two theatrical sequels and then a Disney+ spinoff series. The Hollywood Reporter\u2019s original review is below: Ironically, the most John Hughes-ish holiday movie is Hughes\u2019 chief Christmas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2149163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2149162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/\u2018The-Santa-Clause-THRs-1994-Review.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2149162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2149164,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149162\/revisions\/2149164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2149163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2149162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2149162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2149162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}