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11/30/04
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Christmas with the Kranks (2004)
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Reviews Counted:129
Fresh:6
Rotten:123
Average Rating:2.8/10
Consensus: A mirthless movie as fresh as last year's fruit cake, Christmas with the Kranks is a course, garish comedy that promotes conformity.
Theatrical Release:Nov 24, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $73,701,902
Synopsis: The Kranks have always celebrated a picture-perfect Christmas. But with their only daughter, Blair (Julie Gonzalo), away from home on her Peace Corps assignment, Nora (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Luther... [More]
Starring: Tim Allen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dan Aykroyd, Erik Per Sullivan
Director: Joe Roth
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Reviews for Christmas with the Kranks
It is a perfectly fine, inoffensive family comedy.
05/16/05
A more sweet than sour satire that sets its sight on nasty but lavishly honey coated underpinnings of the holiday season.
02/08/07
An agreeable, if snowflake-thin stocking stuffer faithfully adapted from John Grisham's 2001 bestseller Skipping Christmas.
11/23/04
It's silly and cute, consistently hitting just the right comedic note.
11/22/04
Christmas with the Kranks finds a comfortable balance between hilarious and heartwarming. It's the best of both worlds and a pleasant surprise to find under the cineplex tree.
11/25/04
Avoiding the Kranks can be your gift to the whole family.
11/24/04
Phony, disingenuous family entertainment, suffocated by its green bean casserole approach to Middle America, spineless cardboard characters and paper-thin plot 'twists.'
11/23/04
Joyless and forced.
11/23/04
a singularly mirthless experience that could easily drain the last drop of holiday cheer from old St. Nick himself
11/20/04
...the perfect way to usher in the Fourth Reich...The film’s one great saving grace is its almost utter lack of humor, which blunts its potential to propagandize effectively
11/23/04
Director Joe Roth misses an opportunity for true satire by making the neighbors such insanely over-the-top caricatures that the Kranks seem paragons of normality and perspective.
11/24/04
[A] comedy so broad it barely dents its targets and a patronising moral conclusion that goes against everything its protagonists originally stood for.
04/01/06
With clumsy sight gags the only humour on offer, the temptation to mutter 'Bah humbug' is overwhelming.
06/24/06
Spending 'Christmas with the Kranks' is enough to turn the most cheerful Tiny Tim into a grumpy Scrooge.
11/23/04
Given the tinsel-thin storyline, the typical seasonal gags only elicit perfunctory laughter.
11/23/04
Top CriticIt’s monumentally awful.
11/27/04
...almost had me convinced to convert to Judaism to avoid having to go through anything ever again that even remotely resembles this movie.
04/01/05
Hate Christmas and laughing? This is the film for you.
11/23/04
A flat parable.
11/23/04
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