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Christmaschick
08-29-2009, 05:58 PM
Just wondering if anyone saw this movie last year, and if so, was it any good?:tree:
Wenceslaus
08-29-2009, 10:21 PM
Did anyone see 4 Christmas'sI think you mean Four Christmases.
DoubleA
08-30-2009, 12:00 AM
There might be another thread of this in the movie section to give you better reviews.
But it was a decent Christmas movie, had its moments.
CharlestonNole
08-30-2009, 10:45 AM
Yep, it was fair. Nothing to get excited about.
Christmasstar
08-30-2009, 02:48 PM
Just wondering if anyone saw this movie last year, and if so, was it any good?:tree:
saw the trailer and it looks like a really funny movie. Looking forward to getting to see it.
Wenceslaus
08-30-2009, 03:36 PM
Reviews of Four Christmases (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0369436/externalreviews).
Roger Ebert gave it two stars out of four.
Salon.com: "This is no "Bad Santa," a Christmas picture whose go-for-broke disreputability warms my heart like no other. But "Four Christmases" … has a pleasingly cranky quality, particularly for the way it recognizes that at holiday time, the people around us are more likely than usual to remind us that they think we're conducting our lives all wrong.
USA Today gave it two stars out of four. "The film has its funny moments, but they are too few to make the holiday excursion worthwhile. This predictable and dyspeptic story presents yet another dysfunctional family gathering, as we've come to expect in modern yuletide movies."
The Onion: "A film built on dumb contrivances, one that itself can't fake a single genuine moment when the chips are down. The result is two bad movies in one: a gimmicky romantic comedy, and one of those seasonal headaches that submits loud family dysfunction as a vehicle for Christmas cheer."
Slant gave it two stars out of four: "Blandly conventional holiday comedy … a yuckfest (in the truest sense of the term) whose main objective is to make sure that, at every single moment, its audience knows exactly what's coming next."
Rolling Stone: "Is it possible to see Four Christmases and actually like it? Next week's box-office grosses will tell. Maybe word of mouth will be so bad that audiences will wise up and stay away."
Time: "The movie is a painful mix of farce, mush and propaganda for parenthood. Given this loser and Fred Claus, maybe Vaughn ought to swear off Christmas movies."
The New York Times: “Four Christmases” isn’t anything astonishing, but at 86 minutes, divided into four farcical set pieces, plus necessary exposition, denouement and interstitial drive time, it’s an efficient and stress-free entertainment package.… To an unusual and welcome degree, “Four Christmases” makes merry with an impressive range of modern American social awfulness.
Chicago Tribune: "The acrid, wince-worthy "Four Christmases" may well be part of the war on Christmas Bill O'Reilly's always fog-horning about. Christmas and Christianity will survive it. But barely."
The Orlando Sentinel gave it two out of five stars. "This comedy about a happy couple made miserable by having to visit four divorced parents begins with a bang but settles into sentiment so maudlin that even this cast can't save it."
Ryan4Christmas
08-30-2009, 04:53 PM
Yep, I saw this and actually enjoyed it.
There's some moments where you'll laugh a bit, but it's not all that great. I give it about 3/5 stars. :snowball:
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