“The Santa Clauses” doesn’t bother trying to reinvent the sleigh, but it does splash a new coat of paint on it, in mostly agreeable and mildly clever ways.
After three movies over a 12-year span beginning in 1994, Tim Allen is back in a Disney+ series that, at six half-hour episodes, puts some additional cheer in holiday streaming. Having stumbled into the job, Allen’s Santa, née Scott Calvin, has settled into it, presiding over his elfin empire with Mrs. Claus and their kids .
There’s also an overall playfulness to the proceedings, not only in terms of drawing upon material and characters from the previous movies but contemporizing the message, which includes kids becoming more jaded amid the wanton consumerism of this one-click-shopping age. In addition, some of the jokes, from a Bigfoot-inspired visual gag to one playing off the 1987 movie “The Untouchables,” clearly aren’t afraid to sail over the younger demo’s heads.
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