Silly, light and ever so slightly hip, Christmas movie's a delight!
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01/01/00
I'll Be Home For Christmas (1998)
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Reviews Counted:39
Fresh:7
Rotten:32
Average Rating:4/10
Consensus: Neither parent nor child will find any merriment in this mess.
Runtime: 86 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Jake (Jonathan Taylor Thomas) is a college student whose friends strand him in the middle of the desert wearing a Santa Claus suit. Jake has to make it home by Christmas in order to get the new car... [More]
Starring: Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Jessica Biel, Adam LaVorgna, Eve Gordon
Director: Arlene Sanford
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Reviews for I'll Be Home For Christmas
Thomas has a natural screen presence and he never sheds the instinctual wit that made him a household name.
01/01/00
A consistent source of chuckles.
01/01/00
Top CriticSurprisingly engaging.
02/14/01
Nothing that occurred in it was earthshaking or shocking or particularly inventive, but it was well-done, all the same, and I really did like it.
01/01/00
Arrogance gives way to humility, making this an appropriate, if thoroughly cliched, Christmas morality tale that's sugar-coated with an attractive cast spouting sitcom-quality dialogue.
04/16/08
Top CriticLike a big box of holiday chocolates: There's a lot of variety, and though the quality is a bit uneven, there's enough tasty tidbits to satisfy most everyone in the family.
01/01/00
Funny only in your dreams!
01/01/00
It's all by-the-numbers stuff!
01/01/00
Director Sanford struggles in vain to put a shiny new wrapper on this secondhand offering.
01/01/00
The Disney family flick is all sight gags and button-pushing to holiday tunes.
01/01/00
I'll Be Home for Christmas asks the impossible of us.
03/28/06
It's mixture of smiles and sentiment is good enough for the film to qualify as a mildly pleasant diversion, but lacks that special magic necessary for it to rise above average.
01/01/00
Family fare. Pure, sweet, and PG-rated.
01/01/00
No review available.
07/17/05
I'll Be Home for Christmas is like the tableau in a snow globe -- after all the whirling (and blatantly artificial) snow has settled, not a single figure has actually moved or changed.
01/01/00
The results are only slightly better than coal in your stocking.
01/01/00
The ultimate insult to a film-goer!
01/01/00
Top CriticNext to this, 'Santa Claus Conquers the Martians' looks like a work of depth and brilliance.
01/01/00
If not for the movie's heart being in the right place, this lame teen road picture might be truly insufferable.
01/01/00
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