Deck the Halls (2006)
Average Rating: 2.9/10
Reviews Counted: 82
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 77
Relying on flat humor and a preposterous plot, Deck the Halls is an unnecessarily mean-spirited holiday movie that does little to put viewers in a holiday mood.
Average Rating: 3.1/10
Critic Reviews: 27
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 25
Relying on flat humor and a preposterous plot, Deck the Halls is an unnecessarily mean-spirited holiday movie that does little to put viewers in a holiday mood.
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Movie Info
When the spirit of Christmas compels a small-town New Englander to decorate his home with enough lights to make it visible from space, much more is set to be decked than just the halls in this holiday comedy featuring Danny DeVito and Matthew Broderick as two warring neighbors determined to outdo each other in creating the best lighting display on the planet. Christmas is without question the most wonderful time of the year for Cloverdale, MA optometrist Steve Finch (Broderick). Unfortunately,
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Cast
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Danny DeVito
Buddy Hall -
Matthew Broderick
Steve Finch -
Kristin Davis
Kelly Finch -
Kristin Chenoweth
Tia Hall -
Alia Shawkat
Madison Finch -
Dylan Blue
Carter Finch -
Kelly Aldridge
Ashley Hall -
Sabrina Aldridge
Emily Hall -
Jorge Garcia
Wallace -
Fred Armisen
Gustave -
Gillian Vigman
Gerta -
Ryan Devlin
Bob Murray -
Sean O'Bryan
Mayor Young -
SuChin Pak
Herself -
Jackie Burroughs
Mrs. Ryor -
Garry Chalk
Sheriff Dave -
Nicola Peltz
Mackenzie -
Zak Santiago
Fireworks Guy -
David Lewis
Ted -
Daniel Bacon
Ed -
Ken Kramer
Mr. Murray -
Jill Morrison
Gail -
Alfred E. Humphreys
Hardware Store Employee -
Brenda Crichlow
New Reporter #1 -
Jill Krop
News Reporter #2 -
Agam Darshi
News Producer -
David Stuart
Oblivious Dad -
Quinn Lord
Santa Kid -
Nathaniel De Veaux
Main Street Passerby #1 -
Fulvio Cecere
Town Passerby -
Eliza Norbury
Mary In The Manger -
Randi Lynne
Caroler #1 -
Dan Joffre
Caroler #2 -
Aurora Faulkner-Killam
Caroler -
Melissa Howell
Caroler -
Lori Johnson
Caroler -
David Shaw
Caroler -
Myles Wolfe
Caroler -
Ty Olsson
Trucker -
Stephen Holmes
UPS Guy -
Andrew Hedge
City Employee -
Cory Monteith
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Laden with false climaxes, the overstuffed plot leaves you exhausted well before the movie ends, and the amiable actors sleepwalk through their uninspired roles.
Top CriticThis one follows the depressing pattern of Surviving Christmas and Christmas With the Kranks: enforced holiday cheer gives way to bilious hatred, then hollow forgiveness.
I love the Christmas season, but there are times when I wish it would go away if only to save audiences from horrific experiences like this.
It's a holiday ritual: Each year, American moviegoers get the misanthropically stupid, plastic-satire-of- a-plastic-society Christmas comedy they deserve.
I literally did not count a single laugh in the whole aimless schlep, except for the hucksters who made it, on their way to the bank.
As long as atrocious, fake-pine duds like this keep making their money back, there's no such thing as a Christmas that's too commercial.
Makes us miss those Home Alone days...
The gags land like lumps of coal, but at least the unnatural mounds of fluffy white snow remain unsullied in the dreck.
Ah, another lifeless comedy for the holidays. It's just super to be reminded how mean-spirited and grotesquely commercial the Christmas season can be, isn't it?
The distasteful formula is even more sour and ham-handed than usual; Broderick's and DeVito's natural likeability never stands a chance.
a bit too faux-humbug for me
banal
When Matthew Broderick and Danny DeVito team up for a comedy that can't even deliver one well-oiled joke, that's a big problem.
Even the most dimwitted of kids will see through this poorly made mishmash of every other holiday film.
What's interesting about typical Hollywood Christmas movies is that regardless of how crass, vulgar, or mean-spirited they may be, by the last scene they will inevitably try to wrap viewers in a blanket of warm seasonal cheer.
'My stupidity astounds me!' chortles Danny DeVito in Deck the Halls, a line that pretty much sums up this tale of warring neighbours with very different ideas about celebrating Christmas.
Got any kids who've been naughty this year? Here's their present.
Not that we expect much from a Holiday movie about neighbours competing over Christmas lights (how familiar is that?), but John Whitesell's film is so lacking in any plausible plot that I squirmed in my seat throughout the entire duration of the screening
seems to have only been greenlit because producers know that families need PG-rated dreck to occupy the kiddies while mom is out shopping for Christmas presents.
Deck the screenwriter, deck the director--then go and deck your own halls.
The lights go off pretty fast on this one.
Caso você seja diabético(a), cuidado ao assistir a Um Natal Brilhante, pois há um grande risco de vir a sofrer uma hiperglicemia provocada pelo excesso de água-com-açúcar.
A few laughs are sprinkled in this equivalent of a lame sitcom holiday episode, but the broad comedy and treacly ending are unlikely to put anyone in the Christmas spirit.
Watching "Deck the Halls" is like getting a lump of coal in your stocking. Except receiving a lump of coal takes only seconds, while this awful movie goes on for an hour and a half.
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