The Santa Clause (film series)/YMMV
- Cool and Unusual Punishment: What they did to Toy Santa after shrinking him. The only problem is he tries to teach the other Toy santas to dance properly.
- Family-Unfriendly Aesop: The adults all remember the toys they really wanted for Christmas, and the ones who were disappointed ceased believing in Santa and subsequently have no sense of magic or wonder in their lives.
- It can be safely assumed that most of them have had plenty of other disappointments and heartbreaks through the years that have made them sad and dull, and that getting that one particular gift reminded them of what it was like to have childlike wonder. It really doesn't have to be literally "My life was just never complete without an Oscar-Meyer Weinermobile whistle."
- Harsher in Hindsight: the Charlie Sheen quote from the second movie, where Scott believes that he "straightened out". Can be weird to watch knowing what Sheen has been up to as of late.[1]
- Replacement Scrappy: Curtis in The Santa Clause 3. Not exactly hated, but the general feeling is that he's no Bernard.
- Sequelitis: This one hit the reindeer the hardest. Tim, too; his heart obviously isn't into it come 3, and he's upstaged completely by Martin Short.
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: The third movie's sequence where Scott never became Santa takes up far less screentime than one would think. Details over how things are worse for his family (such as Neil and Laura's break-up) are glossed over. Charlie and Carol don't even appear during this sequence.
- ↑ Let's just say that currently, all the naughty things Charlie Calvin did in the movie were actually far nicer in comparison to some of the drug-related problems Charlie Sheen has.