Review – The Christmas Chronicles: Part Two

Because someone at Netflix watched the first one and said to himself, “What this needed was way more Goldie Hawn.” In her defense, her wooden performance as Mrs. Claus to her real-life partner Kurt Russell’s Santa is far from the worst moment in this galling parade of holiday nonsense. The dysfunctional family from the original is back, this time magically transported from the beach vacation they’ve found ways to hate to the North Pole, where a rebel elf plots to take over Santa’s kingdom and ruin Christmas for everyone. Before the end of the picture we get an odd adaptation of the actual life of St. Nicholas, elves driven insane by a magic potion, Dasher mauled by a Yule Cat, and the whole mess tied up via time travel. Yeesh. See if desperate