With 'The Christmas Chronicles Part II' I again wasn't expecting much, and again I was surprised. The film works because it was so willing to go in a different direction in its story then the first film, though hitting enough of the familiar beats (including an even bigger musical number for Santa) to feel continuities with the original, and again offer a moral or two, though different from the first one.
A renegade former elf (Julian Dennison, the kid from 'Deadpool II'), and there is of course a story as to why he is a 'former elf', zaps the girl from the first film and a new boy character played by Jahzir Bruno (Judah Lewis only really has a bit part in this one) to the North Pole, where they meet Mrs. Claus (Goldie Hawn, expanding on her cameo from the first movie) and must again save Christmas. You see in this movie (Mrs.) Santa's village is attacked and chaos ensues, making 'The Christmas Chronicles Part 2' technically a movie about a terrorist attack.
There is further clever expansion on Santa myths throughout the thing, the pacing is playfully and goes in some directions that I might have found off putting if it wasn't done so winkiningly (spoiler, time travel). I had a good time with this, the first movie was really great for a first movie and this one is really great for a sequel, it's surprisingly hard to compare them they are different enough beats, but they really do compliment each other and work together as a nice whole. So I'm give this part 2 another *** rating.
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