If Vince Vaughn wants to ruin Christmas, he's going about it the right way. Another year of this coal-in-stocking cinema and the holiday spirit will be beaten out of me for good.
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11/25/08
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
Like a gift card in your stocking, the romantic comedy Four Christmases is pretty generic, though you might still be grateful for it.
11/25/08
Vaughn delivers every line with his usual deadpan glibness, which suits the part. But I smiled as I watched the big-bellied, multi-chinned actor connecting with the porcelain, model-thin Witherspoon.
11/25/08
There are far worse ways of kicking yourself into the holiday spirit than this inventive variation on the Meet the Parents formula.
11/25/08
Dismaying, indeed, that a movie purportedly selling itself on refreshing nay-saying scepticism should so cravenly succumb to the same old schmaltz.
11/25/08
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.
11/25/08
This is what happens when a successful indie documentary filmmaker gets sucked in by the Hollywood system.
11/25/08
Four Christmases is defiantly conservative on the issue of adult happiness.
11/25/08
One Christmas movie too many...three parts crude farce, with plenty of comic violence and sexual innuendo, followed by a final reel awash in sappy, supposedly uplifting sentiment.
11/25/08
Needs approximately two Christmases to make you feel completely exhausted.
11/24/08
Vaughn makes the movie tolerable here and there, but this kind of slapsticky physical comedy doesn't suit Witherspoon at all.
11/24/08
Is it funny? Yeah. Sometimes very.
11/24/08
Four rounds of family festivities produce very little merriment for either its protagonists or audiences.
11/24/08
Four Christmases to deliver a quadruple dose of dysfunctional family hijinks to genuinely dispiriting results.
11/24/08
[An] oddly misanthropic, occasionally amusing but thoroughly cheerless holiday attraction.
11/24/08
Top CriticA hilarious comedy about the stress, the embarrassments, the squabbling, and the lessons learned on visits to our families during the holidays.
11/23/08
Although it starts out as a zippy holiday comedy "Four Christmases" loses focus and disperses into a less than satisfying comic experience.
11/23/08
It's not boring enough to be irritating and not funny enough to be entertaining. It's just not worth the trouble.
11/21/08
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