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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With a similar premise as that of Meet the Santas, it seems that Santa is in need of a bride. Since this one came out three years before that one, I’ll have to say that they had the idea first. But who really knows?

In any case, it seems that Scott Calvin (Tim Allen) has settled into his role of Santa very well. But recently he’s been losing a little weight and it seems that the magic that made him into Santa so convincingly the first time around is leaving him. What is odd is that it took so long to happen. Perhaps there is a statute of limitations on how long Santa can operate without a wife, or maybe it’s only once someone realizes that he is supposed to have a wife. I don’t know. But it’s happening.

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It’s safe to say that Jason Biggs has done better. Paul Walker? Probably not a whole lot. Luckily we don’t see him much in this movie.

When we do see him, it’s as he leaves his field station in Antarctica as a storm closes in. Unfortunately, he’s leaving his team of sled dogs. As it turns out, the powers that be have ruled that no one will go back in, which means the dogs (of which there are eight) are now on their own, and so Walker will spend the bulk of the rest of the movie trying to get back to them.

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