The Christmas Chronicles: Part Two

Kate Pierce is a cynical teenager now, and her Christmas plans involve little more than enduring a holiday in Cancun with her mother's new boyfriend and his son, Jack. Those plans collapse when a sorcerer named Belsnickel threatens the North Pole and the whole of Christmas, drawing Kate and Jack into an unexpected adventure alongside Santa Claus. Kate must work with Santa once more, and this time she is not the child she was during their first encounter, which shapes how the pair deal with the threat.

The film is a sequel that continues the story of the first Christmas Chronicles movie, with Darby Camp returning as Kate and Kurt Russell back as Santa Claus. Goldie Hawn plays Mrs. Claus, Judah Lewis plays Kate's brother Teddy, Julian Dennison plays Belsnickel, and Jahzir Bruno plays Jack. Chris Columbus directed and co-wrote the screenplay with Matt Lieberman, and also produced alongside Mark Radcliffe and Kurt Russell. It is the fifteenth of the seventeen features Columbus has directed in chronological order, arriving between Pixels and The Thursday Murder Club.

The film runs 112 minutes and was released in November 2020. On IMDb it holds a rating of 6 out of 10 from around 41,000 votes, while on TMDB it stands at 6.5 out of 10 from roughly 1,200 votes. A film critics' rating of 5.6 out of 10, drawn from 58 reviews, sits slightly below the audience scores.