FOUR CHRISTMASES
- FOUR CHRISTMASES (DVD MOVIE)
Product Description
A COUPLE STRUGGLES TO VISIT ALL FOUR OF THEIR DIVORCED PARENTS ON CHRISTMAS DAY.Amazon.com
When your poignant alternative tells you you both need an exit “safe word” prior to you come in his dad’s Yuletide gathering, you know you’re not in Bedford Falls. But whilst Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon might not be It’s a Wonderful Life‘s George and Mary Bailey, Four Christmases is a complicated legal holiday classical in the own right. For one thing, each family depression and dysfunction have taken base in the 4 family groups of Vaughn and Witherspoon’s characters, Brad and Kate–and the neat yuppie façade each has built with the alternative is about to come acrobatics down. There have been genuine belly laughs as the integrate suddenly has to outlay holidays with their 4 lengthened family groups. “I do not wish to verbalise sick of your mother on Christmas,” growls Howard (Robert Duvall) to son Brad, whilst Brad’s bullnecked ultimate-fighter brothers have been rassling all in sight, “but she’s zero but a usual travel whore.” Brad might cringe, but Kate’s own family is about to debase her in abounding ways, from her randy “Gram-Gram” and about-to-pounce cougar mother Mary Steenburgen (“I feel similar to a Saudi king in here,” marvels Brad as all of Kate’s womanlike kin furnish themselves over him), to the explanation to Brad which Kate used to be–how to put this–a bit on the corpulent side. If the tract isn’t full of surprises, the quips have been nonstop and the behaving plausible and charming. The ancillary expel additionally includes Sissy Spacek, Jon Voight, Jon Favreau and Dwight Yoakam in a noted spin as the mega-church priest Steenburgen’s impression is concerned with. It’s a comic Yuletide blessing, and there’ll be no need to contend “mistletoe”–at slightest not compartment the viewers have been home with their own families. –A.T. Hurley
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I have nothing to say concerning this movie’s plot, there wasn’t one. I will say that it’s not a movie intended for children. In fact, it’s not a movie intended for anyone that appreciates good humor, warmth, drama, or the Christmas spirit. The film takes talented actors and provides them a vehicle that must leave them shamefaced and embarrassed. My wife and I saw this in the theater, walked out after the “third” Christmas. If this movie does anything for your holiday spirit, it will destroy it. It’s sad to see what some actors will do to make a buck. If you receive this as a Christmas gift, please don’t watch it. Instead, include it with the wrapping and boxes intended for the fireplace.
Rating: 1 / 5
Worse movie I’ve seen in years. Should be rated R with all the F words in it. I gave it a “one star” and that was generous.
Rating: 1 / 5
It seems every year Hollywood busts out a Christmas movie that makes people wonder where has Christmas magic gone? While Deck The Halls was my all time worst Christmas film, this one is a close second. I wanted to walk out after the first half hour. There are a few laughs but the script it poor and it feels like forced acting. If there is a sequel, god help us all.
Rating: 1 / 5
Here is yet another Christmas movie that leaves no stereotypical stone unturned. From the randy grandma character (“Wedding Crashers”, “The Wedding Singer” . . . seriously, why do writers NEVER get sick of this character? It’s not remotely funny anymore.) to the bonehead brothers to the father who resents his son’s success, the gang is all here. Vince Vaughn does his usual oblivious insensitive boyfriend thing and the script these cardboard cut-out characters are given to work with hits you over the head with its obvious themes of family, bonding and babies. After the “perfect” couple show off their vibrant sex life (pretending to meet at a bar as strangers and getting it on in a bathroom) and give a giant anti-kids and marriage speech, you already know that this entire movie will be devoted to quickly changing at least one of their minds about all their ideas of what happiness is supposed to be. And so Reese Witherspoon is handed a baby at practically every house, so she can suddenly start thinking “Gee, I guess I’m missing out on something with my successful relationship and career. I’d better get knocked up or I’ll never feel fulfilled as a woman!” And at every house, they get to see a couple that “really know each other,” no matter how poor or uneducated they may be, to drive home the point that the two leads don’t really know each other at all, despite being together for three years. Their favorite thing to do when they’re together is pretend to be other people, get it? They were never really themselves, and therefore their relationship is flawed. You can figure out for yourself how the rest this sap-fest movie ends.
You know what I’d love to see? Just once, a movie where a woman realizes that it’s okay to live a life without children to “fulfill” her and to start realizing instead that kids are expensive, smelly, whiny, fatigue-inducing ungrateful little germ-infested noisemakers who drain both your sanity and your wallet that you’re stuck with for the rest of your life, and then waltz off into the sunset living happily ever after while her friends sacrifice their vacations and dreams so they can sock money away into a college fund that their kid will decide not to use when they drop out after one semester to join a rock band.
But hey, that’s just me and I have weird tastes. I like movies where I can’t see every twist coming and don’t leave it feeling as if someone’s force-fed me enough sugar to put me into a diabetic coma. You may be different, and if so please enjoy every rancid moment of this pathetic holiday fruitcake.
Rating: 1 / 5
Maybe we like our original opening to the movie more, but this is funny. FYI, Dallas and Denver are based on real people. True that.
Rating: 5 / 5