Long before The Santa Clause 2 (eight years, in fact), there was The Santa Clause. This movie introduced us to Scott Calvin (Tim Allen), who is basically a regular guy trying to come to grips with the fact that his ex-wife and her new husband have custody of his son, and he doesn’t get to see him very often.

Add to that the fact that his job is rather demanding, and even when he does get to see his son, such as on Christmas Eve, he’s usually running late, and his son doesn’t always want to see him, so things just aren’t going very well. All that is about to change.

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If you’re a teenager in 1978 in search of your identity, what do you do? After you’ve formed your band, I mean? You make plans to see KISS, of course!

The only potential problem is that if one of you has a mother who doesn’t like KISS, and thinks that the band is nothing more than an acronym for “Knights in Satans Service”, then sets fire to your tickets before sending you off to boarding school the very day of the concert, you may have a tough time getting to the show.

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