In October, Walt Disney Home Entertainment will bring The Santa Clause Trilogy to Blu-ray. This popular holiday-comedy franchise stars Tim Allen (Toy Story) as a workaholic single-father whose entire life changes when he learns he must become Santa Claus.
From Disney's official synopsis:
"Christmas gets a little nuttier when Scott Calvin (Allen) unknowingly inherits the role of the legendary St. Nick. His ordinary life snowballs into a hysterical series of outrageous events as he fills out his Santa suit, meets the future Mrs. Claus (Elizabeth Mitchell, Lost), and faces his ultimate test against the mischievous Jack Frost (Martin Short, Three Amigos!)."
Disney's three-disc box set presents all three entries in their 1.85:1 original aspect ratio with 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio tracks and a number of bonus supplements, such as:
The Santa Clause -
So You Wanna Be An Elf? featurette
Making Santa Snacks With Wolfgang feature
The Night Before Christmas short
The Santa Clause 3 -
Commentary by director Michael Lembeck
Behind-the-scenes featurettes:
Inside The North Pole With Curtis
Director's Tour Of Elfsberg
True Confessions of The Legendary Figures feature
Seven deleted scenes
Gag reel
The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause -
Commentary by director Michael Lembeck
Behind-the-scenes featurettes:
Creating Movie Magic: Visual Effects Secrets
Jack Frost & Mrs. Claus: A Very Different Look
The New Comedians: On The Set with Tim and Marty
Christmas Carol-oke: Sing Your Favorite Songs of The Season feature
Deck The Halls: Virtual Holiday Decorator interactive feature
Blooper reel
Alternate opening
"Greatest Time Of Year" music video with Aly and AJ
The Santa Clause Trilogy will be available - either in this box set or in separate Blu-ray editions - on October 16th.
Hope eventually they do them individually and the first one gets better features. Should be a big seller this Christmas, like I said before it's good to see anything make it to this format whether your a fan or not.
Fantastic! Adore the first film. The second is bearable. The third is well, best left unspoken of but who cares, the first film is an absolute Christmas classic!
At least they got the release date right, unlike many other timely movies. If you like these movies, or any of them, you'll be able to get these in time to watch before Christmas.
It's about damn time. I love the first one, and the second one was admittedly better than I thought it'd be. The third one, though? Let's not go there. Still, 2 out of 3 ain't bad.
I remember liking the first one as a kid. It's probably tim allen's only good live action family movie. While I haven't seen the other two, word of mouth is that they both pretty much stink
I had to check, as I thought more came with the special edition dvd of the first film, but it looks like all the extras. Day 1 buy of the full set, if the masters have been recently scanned or at least evaluated better than most Disney catalog BDs. Otherwise I'll hopefully pick it up in time for Christmas, if the price is right. Note to Disney: Do the masters right and I'll buy immediately. Use older masters that aren't optimal for BD and I'll still buy, but only when it's cheap enough, commensurate with the effort, or lack thereof. Hope to be buying this one sooner rather than later, after all you've hung on to them for 6 years, plenty of time to do them right.
They should do a real special edition for the first one. It's a classic. Include the deleted scenes like the ones in the trailer. Include the trailer again. Have the cast come back and talk about it. have a gag reel and other real features. "Have a piece of fruit for God's sake!" But its Disney, they're great with anniversary editions of live action films. At least its coming to bluray.
For the second film they should include the original teaser trailer from 2000 before they had troubles and had to stop production. but at least that one is on The Rookie DVD i think.
