Okay. It’s official now. I hate Christmas.
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11/23/04
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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
Should you spend Christmas With the Kranks? Well, perhaps if you're an adolescent boy, or you have nothing better to do, then go for it. Otherwise, make other holiday plans.
11/24/04
There is not a single lifelike character in the entire picture.
05/26/06
Kranks lacks that basic kernel of credibility that even a goofy farce needs to work.
11/23/04
This one is a veritable celebration of intolerance, disguised as a joyous holiday film.
11/24/04
Christmas with the Kranks wants to toss out the holiday fruitcake but eat it, too.
11/22/04
A nightmare vision of a theist, conformist America... It's like 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers,' except we're expected to root for the pod people.
11/30/04
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
Top CriticAs with average TV fare, moments of genuine humor are rare, and character development can best be described as perfunctory.
11/21/04
Top CriticThis movie reeks.
11/24/04
Top CriticJoyless and forced.
11/23/04
Top CriticAs I write this...I have just walked out on Christmas With the Kranks after roughly 45 minutes of mind-numbingly humorless, sitcom barrel-bottom idiocy.
11/22/04
You’d have to be a Scrooge not to crack a smile during this feature.
11/30/04
If Christmas means spending it with the irascible, over-the-top Kranks, then taking a Caribbean cruise really does sound like a much better deal.
11/24/04
A dreadful movie, and if you've seen the advertisements you've already seen the laughs -- all three of them -- it has to offer.
11/29/04
A band of drunken elves working with leftovers from the Island of Misfit Toys could have pieced together a better holiday film than Christmas with the Kranks.
11/24/04
Not since Arnold Schwarzenegger's Jingle All the Way has there been a Yuletide film as fascistic -- or as odious -- as Christmas With the Kranks.
11/24/04
This holiday comedy depicts suburbia as a place where all true individualists are treated with a nastiness not in tune with the Christmas spirit.
12/10/04
Here's a film that says Christmas is a sellout, that your neighbors are morons, and that suburbia is a playground of fascist conformity, and then it concludes that anyone who actually believes that is a heartless Scrooge.
11/24/04
Top CriticA mildly abrasive satire of America's holiday lockstepping [which backpedals] desperately into toothless humanism.
11/21/04
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