In Search of the Crystal Skull Episode 22: The Santa Clause

In this episode of In Search of the Crystal Skull, 90s Christmas
Movie Month concludes with a lookback at the 1994 Walt Disney
live action film The Santa Clause. A toy businessman named Scott
Calvin has to watch over his young son Charlie around Christmas
Eve while his ex wife and her husband head out. The night goes
uneventful until Scott and Charlie see a man fall from their roof
and disappear leaving nothing but his suit and sleigh with
reindeer. Scott puts on the suit and delivers all the toys to the
children and heads to the North Pole learning from the head elf
Bernard that he's the new Santa Claus. Over the course of a year,
Scott slowly transforms into Santa and Charlie convinces his mom
and stepdad that his dad is Santa, but they don't believe him.
Even Scott doesn't believe that he's Santa until his mannerisms,
body, and hair changes. 


When the movie premiered in theaters, it received mixed to
positive reviews making $190 million dollars out of a $22 million
dollar budget. Nowadays, it's a Christmas staple that has 2
sequels and a miniseries on Disney+. The movie currently has a
73% on Rotten Tomatoes. What did Arun and Patricia think of the
film? Listen and find out.