Four Christmases is a fun and fascinating -- if ultimately featherweight -- comedy not only for the whole family, but for every kind of them.
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11/26/08
Four Christmases (2008)
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Reviews Counted:138
Fresh:35
Rotten:103
Average Rating:4.3/10
Consensus: Despite a strong cast, this sour holiday comedy suffers from a hackneyed script.
Theatrical Release:Nov 26, 2008 Wide
Box Office: $120,136,047
Synopsis: Documentarian Seth Gordon (THE KING OF KONG: A FISTFUL OF QUARTERS) makes his feature film directorial debut with FOUR CHRISTMASES. Kate (Reese Witherspoon) and Brad (Vince Vaughn) are a happily... [More]
Starring: Vince Vaughn, Reese Witherspoon, Robert Duvall, Jon Favreau
Director: Seth Gordon
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Reviews for Four Christmases
Four Christmases is refreshingly tart and lean, forgoing the usual schmaltz and syrup of the season.
11/26/08
Top CriticThe difference between the average unfunny comedy and this one is the difference between Grandpa telling you knock-knock jokes and Grandpa telling you knock-knock jokes with his bathrobe open as his hand creeps up your thigh.
11/26/08
Top CriticThink of it as fun tear-away wrapping on what's essentially a boring pair of socks.
11/26/08
It really needs to be stamped Don't Open Until DVD.
11/26/08
Top CriticVaughn and Witherspoon are clearly having a lot of fun snapping each other's synapses, and their sense of play gives the whole easygoing, formulaic enterprise a welcome jolt.
11/26/08
Four Christmases generates some laughs here and there, but it's wildly uneven, and too often sets aside the generous gifts of a pretty good cast in favor of cheesy slapstick.
11/26/08
The cynicism may not hold up as we get closer to the holiday itself, but with a little distance between us and the reason for the season, they did make me laugh.
11/26/08
It's Four Christmases in need of a wedding, or maybe a funeral.
11/26/08
There's always the underlying feeling that what you're seeing is eerily familiar.
11/26/08
Holiday romcom is amiable but centers on family dysfunction.
11/26/08
One and a half Christmases is about all that's worth celebrating in Four Christmases.
11/26/08
To brand, then dismiss, Four Christmases as a disappointment would be giving it too much credit -- never, for a second, did this New Line Cinema cast-off scream or even whisper decent in the run-up to its opening.
11/26/08
Top CriticTo earn a more helpful R rating, the filmmakers should have gone ahead and dropped a couple of F-bombs alongside the references to 'street whores,' nipples, senior sex and vomit.
11/26/08
Very funny, very touching, and very real, and it's not too hard to believe that, though it might not be remembered as a classic, it'll become a holiday favorite for many.
11/26/08
Several maraschino cherries short of a fruitcake.
11/26/08
Here's a clue for people who make movies like Four Christmases: if your holiday season is that awful, keep it to yourself.
11/26/08
Can someone please establish a Vince Vaughn Support Group?
11/26/08
A sequence in which they dress up as Mary and Joseph for a Nativity play is genuinely funny. The rest of Four Christmases doesn't do them justice.
11/26/08
Vaughn may, in fact, be the best possible representative of our over-caffeinated age -- rambling, reckless, selfish and yet still somehow awesome -- and he's what makes Four Christmases as barely watchable as it is.
11/26/08
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November 25, 2008:
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