Of the movie's misaligned stars, it's Vaughn who emerges the least damaged.
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11/26/08
Four Christmases (2008)
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Reviews Counted:138
Fresh:35
Rotten:103
Average Rating:4.3/10
Consensus: Despite a strong cast, this sour holiday comedy suffers from a hackneyed script.
Runtime: 88 mins
Genre: Comedies
US Box Office: $120,136,047
Synopsis: Documentarian Seth Gordon (THE KING OF KONG: A FISTFUL OF QUARTERS) makes his feature film directorial debut with FOUR CHRISTMASES. Kate (Reese Witherspoon) and Brad (Vince Vaughn) are a happily... [More]
Starring: Vince Vaughn, Reese Witherspoon, Robert Duvall, Jon Favreau
Director: Seth Gordon
Reviews for Four Christmases
81 - 100 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Ho, ho, ho? No, no, no.
11/26/08
Do these hypocritical holiday comedies have an alarm clock inside them that goes off when they're suddenly supposed to turn all soft and gooey?
11/26/08
This being a Christmas comedy of sorts, it demands a happy ending of sorts. And a moral too.
11/26/08
Parental Content Review
11/26/08
[A] noxious, nearly laughless Christmas comedy.
11/26/08
It's not all a total loss... if you like the two stars (I do), you'll love them here...
11/26/08
That's funny?
11/26/08
Top Criticideal for anyone who thinks their family is the most dysfunctional during the holidays and yearns to be proved wrong
11/26/08
Surprisingly deft and sometimes hilarious.
11/26/08
When will filmmakers learn that if you start with Bad Santa and finish with It's a Wonderful Life, you just end up with curdled eggnog?
11/26/08
No yuletide season would be complete without the crappy Christmas movie.
11/26/08
A star-studded cast way too talented for the material plod through a painfully rote holiday rom-com.
11/26/08
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.
11/26/08
Use parental caution when opening this early holiday present.
11/26/08
Flailing like a dying fish out of water and eventually smelling just as fetid, Four Christmases is stiflingly unfunny.
11/26/08
To say that Vaughn is phoning it in these days would be an insult to telecommuters everywhere.
11/26/08
Vaughn has little romantic rapport with Witherspoon, so the love story has no pull, but Vaughn is in top center-of-attention form and Witherspoon is a game straightwoman.
11/26/08
The nonsensical result of shoehorning the same damn message into every 'holiday' movie, year after year.
11/26/08
If you liked "McCain-Palin 2008," you'll love "Four Christmases."
11/25/08
Latest News for Four Christmases
November 30, 2008:
Box Office Guru Wrapup: Four Christmases has a lot to be thankful for this weekend
Four Christmases had a sensational Thanksgiving weekend in the number one spot. Bolt picked up the pace while the sun started to set on Twilight. More...
November 28, 2008:
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November 26, 2008:
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November 25, 2008:
Critics Consensus: Four Christmases Gets Coal
This week at the movies, we've got yuletide yucks (Four Christmases, starring Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon), an epic from Down Under (Australia, starring Nicole Kidman and... More...
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