Average Rating: 4.3/10
Reviews Counted: 142
Fresh: 36 | Rotten: 106
Despite a strong cast, this sour holiday comedy suffers from a hackneyed script.
Average Rating: 4/10
Critic Reviews: 27
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 22
Despite a strong cast, this sour holiday comedy suffers from a hackneyed script.
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A crafty couple run the Christmas Day gauntlet by racing to visit their divorced parents' four separate households in this Vince Vaughn/Reese Witherspoon comedy that proves the holidays are no time for relaxing. Brad (Vaughn) and Kate (Witherspoon) have made something of an art form out of avoiding their families during the holidays, but this year their foolproof plan is about go bust -- big time. Stuck at the city airport after all departing flights are canceled, the couple is embarrassed to
Nov 26, 2008 Wide
Nov 24, 2009
$120.1M
New Line Cinema
All Critics (145) | Top Critics (27) | Fresh (37) | Rotten (107) | DVD (5)
This is marginally better than most, with a few offbeat comic ideas, a reliably droll performance from Vaughn, and, as the parents, four watchable old troupers in search of a fat paycheck.
Gordon's stars are charmless, his script cheerless, and his sterling supporting cast can't seem to figure out what they've been brought on board to do.
Didn't quite get over the hump.
Oh, the hilarity of hating your family at the holidays.
Seems intent on being as generic and lowbrow as possible, with broad slapstick emphasized over witty dialogue or interesting characters.
Four Christmases is refreshingly tart and lean, forgoing the usual schmaltz and syrup of the season.
At its heart, this is a romantic comedy, and it plays out like one. So if you don't want any cheer or hope in your Christmas movies, you'll want to skip this one.
It's too sparse in the comedy to be really successful--every good joke is in the commercials--but it's got some heart and that counts for something.
Maybe if Four Christmases had extended itself beyond white trash targets and projectile vomiting, we could've been talking about a new Christmas classic right now.
Movie-goers heading to see the romantic comedy Four Christmases might want comedy, Christmas cheer and chemistry, but nobody gets everything on his wish list.
None of it works, including Witherspoon and Vaughn. (Blu-ray Edition)
How many Academy Award winners can a studio put in one cast and still turn out a bad movie?
Although not a yuletide classic, Four Christmases is better than most of the holiday-oriented slop put out in recent years.
For all of its snarky holiday/family bashing, Four Christmases wimps out in the third act and reaffirms all the traditional values it affects to mock.
Maybe catch one of the other hundred holiday films to be offered over the next few weeks and wait for Four Christmases to come to your local Red Box.
Grows tired long before the end credits start rolling at the 80-minute mark.
There is no spark to the humor, there is no warmth to the drama. There is a tired plot that whips the essence of every Christmas movie ever made into a dreary slog
Feels like they wanted to make 5 different holiday movies and couldn't decide which plot line was best, so they rolled them all together, glossing over everything.
Projectile baby vomiting is a recurring gag. I cried mistletoe well before the film was halfway through.
Feels both too cluttered and too safe.
This actually isn't too bad, I thought it would be a horrible mess of cuddly, kissing family fun but its quite dark in places and pretty funny in others. Its not GREAT but its certainly one of Mr Vaughan's better films recently, Witherspoon is just annoying as usual.It starts off well when they both visit Robert Duvall
December 4, 2008Super Reviewer
A bit of a laugh but way too predictable and nothing special.
December 26, 2011Super Reviewer
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