Four Christmases

Vince Vaughn really needs to stop doing holiday movies. Why would anyone want to see the cynical and sarcastic comic do a Christmas movie? Considering this is his second one in as many years, someone has it in their head that... Full review

An Average comedy that felt way too much like Meet the Parents and Just Married. Sadly they showed most of the funny scenes on the trailers. A constant thing showing up in movies. The best part of watching this was the... Full review

Imagine making a series of visits to your parents and relatives, as well as your companion's parents and relatives, only to discover that they have prepared a string of physically and mentally strenuous situations that boundlessly embarrass you and your companion... Full review

The movie has all of the potential to be a great comedy classic, but it seems to have to much Vaughn influence in the writing. Jon Favreau should have taken more control in creating this movie because his character was the... Full review

It's been a while since Hollywood gave us a genuinely good Christmas movie worth seeing. If you notice, the Christmas TV line-up is the same each year and the most modern film usually on the list is THE SANTA CLAUSE (1993).... Full review

I have seen worse movies than this, but not very many. I can name two - only TWO - instances in which the film is SUPPOSED to be funny and it actually succeeds: the beginning of the third Christmas, and the... Full review

i wrote up my review on my site. it can be found here http://www.thejonnyfilm.com/theaters/2008/12/8/four-christmases.html there are spoilers in the article though i'm bummed because the film in no way felt like Christmas. here's a quick excerpt from the review Jon Favreau... Full review

There are some good moments in this film - eg the family board game. But most of the time it just shows the poverty of the Hollywood comedy in the hands of all-male writers and producers (I am male and straight)who... Full review

It's as if these comedians had a bunch of random family-related scenes that got cut out of other things and decided to cobble them together into a movie. It didn't work. This movie has two good points. The very first scene,... Full review

Ah the Christmas movie, is there anything more fitting and resembling of its subject matter when it comes to big screen adaptations? Much like the holiday season itself however, one can't assume absolute objectivity; Christmas is undoubtedly a holiday that is... Full review

The movie is funny and cute, but its very story mandates that divorce and brokenheartedness are always lurking somewhere around the edges. Review by Josh Hurst | posted 11/26/08 Silly and frivolous though it may be, Four Christmases is nevertheless a movie that speaks loudly about the time and place in which it was created. ... Full Review

There are not enough adjectives to describe the vile, mean-spirited, obnoxious, stereotypical Christmas "comedy" "Four Christmases. It has no hope of achieving that goal, thanks to a feeble minded script designed to move the audience in and out of comedy as fast as it can without developing the story proper. ... Full Review

Vaughn has created a disturbingly frantic holiday comedy that runs itself ragged to achieve laughs, quickly becoming an utter annoyance. When it comes time for "Four Christmases" to grow a heart, the mood doesn't mesh properly with the zany tone the picture has been working up a sweat to achieve. ... Full Review

They just embody whatever plot machination the movie needs at any given moment-and while this is far, far from the first movie to suffer from that, the fact that this is the first produced screenplay by two former Hollywood talent agents tells you how pitifully little insight it has into ordinary human beings. ... Full Review

Vaughn makes the movie tolerable here and there, but this kind of slapsticky physical comedy doesn't suit Witherspoon at all. Four Christmases," a New Line Cinema release, is rated PG-13 for some sexual humor and language. ... Full Review

LOS ANGELES - Thanksgiving weekend movie crowds gobbled up the Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn holiday comedy " Four Christmases ," which debuted at No. 1 with $31.7 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. ... Full Article

Reese Witherspoon will be spending most of today in the kitchen. In her new film Four Christmases , her character hates the trappings of the holiday but in real life, Reese loves spending the day with her kids - nine... ... Full Article

Now Showing: Metro Movies: Friday, Dec. 19, 2008 Thu, Dec 18, 2008 | Add a comment Ratings are by Gene Triplett, Brandy McDonnell, George Lang and Matthew Price. ... Full Article

She's been Glinda, the Good Witch ( Wicked ) and Olive Snook, the itty-bitty, lovable waitress ( Pushing Daisies ), comic strip cutie Sally Brown ( You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown ), a PR pro on The West Wing... ... Full Article

New Regency has picked up the comedy pitch Mr.Romance , and has set Four Christmases director Seth Gordon to take the helm.According to Variety , Jeff Roda ( The Siege of Fulton Avenue ) will pen the script. ... Full Article