Scanialara You won't be disappointed!
VividSimon Simply Perfect
ShangLuda Admirable film.
Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.
ronrick-12354 The absolute worst Christmas movie ever made it tries to be funny but the script is so bad. It tries to be heartwarming but just is more of an affront to god than anything. I would go as far to say its soulless and evil. That being said I'm a sado-masochist so me and my buddy watch this every holiday season. Just so we can gawk at what a disgusting train-wreck this movie is. It's foul and rancorous stench lingers with you; perhaps, even haunts you for weeks after you watch it. The plot isn't even worth summing up here if you read all this and you still want to watch go for it.
Eric Stevenson I'm surprised that the score isn't a lot lower seeing as how frequently this appears on worst Christmas movies lists. I think this is mostly deserving of its hate. The thing with Tim Allen is that a lot of times you expect his movies to be forgettable, but he ends up making really good ones like "Galaxy Quest". This, on the other hand, is probably his worst movie. This movie's plot is that the Kranks are skipping Christmas and their neighbors harass them until they conform. That's the main problem.It would have been wonderful if the film had a scene where the neighbors realized that would they did was wrong. Instead, they never learn their lesson and it turns out they were right the whole time. Even the live-action Grinch movie delivered a better message against materialism! Santa Claus does in fact appear, but it's not revealed until the end of the movie. It ends with Santa riding a car led by reindeer. They couldn't even get Santa right.The characters in this are just dumb. There's a scene where a boy lets out a guy who's in the back of a police car! There's this giant Frosty house ornament that actually seems to come to live and wish destruction on the Kranks. It's just creepy. The message is that we shouldn't stop doing what we've been doing for the longest time. It's about how we shouldn't change and that's a terrible message any movie should send. *
adonis98-743-186503 With their daughter away, the Kranks decide to skip Christmas altogether until she decides to come home, causing an uproar when they have to celebrate the holiday at the last minute. Christmas with the Kranks is a 2004 Christmas Family Comedy starring Jamie Lee Curtis (True Lies) and Tim Allen (Toy Story) and it's about the Kranks that try to skip Christmas and go on vacation but everything changes on the last minute when their daughter returns home. Now this film is nowhere near as bad as a 5.2 in my opinion it does have flaws but it's not an awful film first of all Tim Allen, Jamie Lee Curtis and Dan Aykroyd (Ghostbusters) were all terrific and especially the ending for me was very emotional and everyone did a great job in my opinion this is a film that showcases the meaning of "Family" especially since the whole Neighborhood comes together for just one girl and her boyfriend. There are flaws tho like i said with mostly the humor i felt that at times they went a bit way too far and they even used some cgi here and there that wasn't awful but didn't feel right also. Chris Columbus wrote the script so there are a couple of references to Harry Potter and if you blink you will miss them but overall this was a pretty cool Christmas Film and i'm gonna give it an A+
Prismark10 This film is actually based on a John Grisham novel but is a misguided misfire that has little by way of symbolism relating to the Christian meaning of Christmas. For goodness sake you have a Catholic priest hanging round a party on Christmas Eve instead of preparing for midnight mass.Luther Krank (Tim Allen) upsets his neighbourhood as he decides not to take in Christmas festivities and instead go on a Caribbean cruise with his wife Nora (Jamie Lee Curtis) as their daughter has now left home and joined the Peace Corps. His neighbours are upset with this Scrooge like attitude and try to coerce and shame them into celebrating Christmas like decking the halls, buying gifts and putting Frosty the Snowman up on the roof just as everyone else on the street has done.The film gets syrupy and manipulative at the end as their daughter at the last minute decides to spend Christmas with her family and wants to introduce them to her new fiancé. This means succumbing to the commercialisation of Christmas and now at the last minute they need to buy a tree, honey ham and invite everyone around to their party.This is an artificial and uneven film with a mixed message that relies on Home Alone type antics for a few laughs. No surprise there as it is written by Chris Columbus who directed Home Alone 1 & 2 and directed by Joe Roth who was Head of 20th Century Fox when Home Alone 1 & 2 were released.
