Deck the Halls (2006)
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Danny De Vito, Kristin Davis, Kristin Chenoweth, Alia Shawkat
Screenwriter: Matt Corman, Chris Ord
Producer: Michael Costagan, Jeremiah Samuels
Composer: George S. Clinton
DVD Info
Release:
Nov 6, 2007
DVD Features:
- Region 1
- NTSC
- Keep Case
- Dual Side/Single Layer
Audio:
- Dolby Digital Surround - French, Spanish
- Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
- Subtitles - English, Spanish - Optional
Additional Release Material:
- Audio Commentaries - John Whitesell - Director; Danny DeVito - Star
- Disc 1/Side A: DECK THE HALLS - Full Frame
- Full Frame - 1.33
Additional Release Material:
- Alternate Scenes - Deleted Scenes (3)
- Interviews - "Dylan Blue Cast Interviews"
- Outtakes - Bloopers (41)
- Disc 1/Side B: DECK THE HALLS - Widescreen
- Widescreen - 1.85
Additional Release Material:
- Behind the Scenes - 1. "Construction of the Homes"
- 2. "Lighting Design"
- 3. "Winterizing: Shooting a Christmas Movie in July"
- Trailers
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Reviews
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.
Laden with false climaxes, the overstuffed plot leaves you exhausted well before the movie ends, and the amiable actors sleepwalk through their uninspired roles.
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.
This one follows the depressing pattern of Surviving Christmas and Christmas With the Kranks: enforced holiday cheer gives way to bilious hatred, then hollow forgiveness.
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
None of this is ever funny, and what's more, we just don't care.
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.
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.
[Deck the Halls] wants to be both naughty and nice, but just ends up feeling deeply confused.
You might be wondering just when the heartwarming spirit of the season is going to come crashing down upon these boy-men.
You can't even say Deck the Halls lacks the courage of its convictions, because it doesn't have any
A box of Christmas movie clichés wrapped in tired slapstick and tied up with a bow made of trite lessons about the 'true meaning of Christmas.'
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