So does Candy Cane Lane shine ... who turns out to be a mischievous former elf of Santa’s that tricks Chris into signing his life away (you gotta read the fine print, people) by selling him ...

And that’s the taking-off point for “Candy Cane ... It turns out that when Chris signed his credit-card slip at Kringle’s to buy the carousel tree, he was also signing a fine-print contract.