Avoiding the Kranks can be your gift to the whole family.
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11/24/04
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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
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
Top CriticFilled with overly processed situations it tries to sell with manic energy, Kranks is canned, hammy and rolling as fast as it can.
11/24/04
Top CriticYou have a standing invitation to the Krank's for Christmas. My advice... Decline.
11/24/04
Christmas with the Kranks wants to toss out the holiday fruitcake but eat it, too.
11/22/04
A USA network-quality script, cobbled together from parts of Home Alone, The Grinch and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.
11/23/04
One of the worst Christmas movies in years.
11/24/04
If you haven't seen enough films featuring shoppers sprinting to snatch the last ham at the grocery store, electric shocks from Christmas lights, and home decorators toppling off the roof, this is the movie for you.
11/23/04
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