Real-life couple Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn are teaming up once again to save Christmas. The actors are co-starring in the follow-up to 2018’s holiday family film
The Christmas Chronicles with this year’s—wait for it—
The Christmas Chronicles 2. What the film lacks in a creative title, it makes up for in impressive special effects.The new film features Russell returning as #BeardGoals Santa Claus, who in the
first film was ambushed by the brother and sister duo of rebellious 16-year-old Teddy (
The Babysitter’s Judah Lewis) and precocious 11-year-old Kate (
Big Little Lies’ Darby Camp). In the original film, Goldie Hawn appears briefly as Mrs. Claus.
The Christmas Chronicles 2 picks up with Teddy and Kate on vacation with their mom (
Father of the Bride's Kimberly Williams-Paisley), her new boyfriend (Tyrese Gibson) and his young son Jack, played by Jahzir Bruno (
The Witches). Kate and Jack find themselves transported to the North Pole by a hotel worker, who is actually the magical, mythical Belsnickel and will stop at nothing to ruin Christmas.Played by
Deadpool 2 actor Julian Dennison,
and not Rainn Wilson, Belsnickel makes his way to the North Pole too and steals the powerful Christmas star, which keeps the Clauses and elves cloaked in secrecy. Will Santa and Mrs. Claus be able to save Christmas? Normally, we would assume "yes" for a family-friendly film, but it’s 2020, so who knows?[video_embed id='2057202']RELATED: Sarah Paulson tells us she was intimidated by her role as Nurse Ratched [/video_embed]Set to debut on November 25,
The Christmas Chronicles 2 is one of several new holiday-themed titles to be released this year, including
Holidate with Emma Roberts and Luke Bracey,
Operation Christmas Drop with Kat Graham and Alexander Ludwig and
Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey, starring Forest Whitaker. Plus, so, so, so many Hallmark and Lifetime movies. So many.
The Christmas Chronicles marked the first time Russell and Hawn had starred in a film together in three decades. The couple first appeared together on screen in the 1968 Disney film
The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band, which also marked Hawn’s feature film debut. In 1984, the couple once again shared the screen in
Swing Shift, but it was three years later in 1987 that Hawn and Russell cemented their place together in movie history with the iconic comedy
Overboard.[video_embed id='-1']BEFORE YOU GO: Cat looks 'udderly' fantastic In Halloween cow costume [/video_embed]
