Great Family Movie!!
Added 1/2/2010
I just love watching this, it's a cute, fun, family movie. It's become one that I
watch every year, and will keep on watching for (hopefully) many years to come!!
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I wasn't at all suprised when "Film Brian" did a review of this movie; it's dreadful. The events are predictable, the special effects are bad, the neighbors are Christmas Nazis, the main character is a total douche, the story goes on another half hour after the focus is resolved, it has the shoddy cornball antics that have plagued family comedies the past 10 years, it promotes conformism & marrying a man one has just met, & the movie isn't a fantasy, so the closing seemed inappropriate.
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Its definitely a rental
Added 12/23/2009
Not that funny but its a definitely a movie rental not good enough to want to buy. Its not that funny.
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Total Holiday Pleasure - another Christmas Trandition for me!
Added 12/21/2009
Christmas with the Kranks was a chuckle from beginning to end. Almost everyone has wanted to skip Christmas, has hidden in the house from Christmas Carolers and felt the pressure of neighbors to "keep up with the Jones" with Christmas decorations. All I had to do was LOOK at Jamie Lee Curtis and the frumpy hair and Christmas Vest and I had to laugh. While Tim Allen was hysterical as the husband preparing for Carribbean Cruise by getting botox injections. I watched the movie 3 times and everytime I belly laughed at Tim Allen trying to eat in a restuarant with his face frozen by the botox. Jamie Lee was perfect as the suburban housewife, hiding in her home one day from the neighbors demanding that Jamie give them the huge 15 foot snowman in their basement, so that they may decorate the Kranks roof with it - like every year.
Anyone who appreciates Jamie Lee, frumping down into a great performance, espeically as she fights a shopper for the last Honey Ham in the grocery store, will chuckle at this movie, and laugh out loud in some places.
There is sentiment too.
I totally enjoyed Christmas with the Kranks and will be sure to bring the movie out every December for pleasant Christmas viewing.
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Funny movie, but sends a bad message
Added 12/20/2009
Gotta love a movie with Tim Allen and Dan Akroyd. Christmas With the Kranks stands out in a crowded sea of Christmas movies. Tim Allen tries to boycott Christmas. However, his neighbors and friends, led by Dan Akroyd, succeed in stopping him. Along the way, Tim Allen and his wife suffer from hilarious antics.
As much as I like the movie, I gave it a slightly lower rating because I think it sends the wrong message to people. It essentially advocates giving into the commercialism of the "Christmas-industrial complex." Everybody shuns Tim Allen because he wants to take a vacation rather than host a Christmas party for his neighbors and decorate his house. Tim Allen never did anything truly Grinch-like - he just wanted a vacation for himself and wife. The morale of Christmas With the Kranks seems to to be buy a lot of Christmas paraphernalia and give into peer pressure. If you can get around that, you can appreciate the humor in Christmas With the Kranks.
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Great Family Movie!!
Added 1/2/2010
I just love watching this, it's a cute, fun, family movie. It's become one that I
watch every year, and will keep on watching for (hopefully) many years to come!!
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I wasn't at all suprised when "Film Brian" did a review of this movie; it's dreadful. The events are predictable, the special effects are bad, the neighbors are Christmas Nazis, the main character is a total douche, the story goes on another half hour after the focus is resolved, it has the shoddy cornball antics that have plagued family comedies the past 10 years, it promotes conformism & marrying a man one has just met, & the movie isn't a fantasy, so the closing seemed inappropriate.
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Its definitely a rental
Added 12/23/2009
Not that funny but its a definitely a movie rental not good enough to want to buy. Its not that funny.
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