As with average TV fare, moments of genuine humor are rare, and character development can best be described as perfunctory.
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11/21/04
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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
Top CriticYou will laugh at much of this, but it's not a hearty, fulfilling guffaw. It's more like a Christmas snack that leaves you wanting more until dinnertime.
11/21/04
A mildly abrasive satire of America's holiday lockstepping [which backpedals] desperately into toothless humanism.
11/21/04
A vile, morally repugnant lump of coal. One of the worst, most disingenuous Christmas movies in memory.
11/20/04
a singularly mirthless experience that could easily drain the last drop of holiday cheer from old St. Nick himself
11/20/04
One of the worst Christmas movies ever made.
11/20/04
A Home Improvement holiday special spread out to an impossibly long 90 minutes.
11/20/04
It's a medieval endurance ritual, an act of self-flagellation like wearing a hair shirt, say, or whipping oneself with a cat-o-nine tails whilst chanting the liturgy.
11/18/04
The movie waffles between competing ideologies while struggling to find humor in characters who overreact to minutia.
11/16/04
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