Four Christmases (2008)

Sadly Over-hyped

One of my all time favorites.

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Four Christmas is in my opinion, a very futile and poor attempt at a comedy movie. Reese Witherspoon, who I usually love, I didn't care for here, she just didn't suit in her role and in this film overall. Vince Vaughn was just being his usual silly self throughout the entire movie. Mary Steenburgen was enjoyable in here, so was Kristin Chenoweth. They were really the only performances I liked. The segments in the movie were not funny, and they were annoying. Tim McGraw was the most irritating here, Vaughn's family was mediocre and just over the top with the annoyance. The film is uneven and the pacing is sort of off in my opinion. This "comedy" just falls flat and doesn't give us any laughs really. 3/10 :/.

so a film comes along for Xmas as this is kind of reality in a way so this film is 1hr 28mins of fun filled angst if you been through it with this all star cast means that the star couple question each others ideas of commitment as they are test to the limit of their own moral ground they try and get away brad and Kate (resse Witherspoon and Vince Vaughan ) they are brilliant in this relationship issues film but anyway the like going away each Xmas to keep away from their family as their respective parents are with other people so with holidays booked and nature decides that Kate and brad are dealt a severe blow to their ideas and get found out in certain media so they have to meet brad father Robert duvall character Howard who likes to drink and play hard along with his son Orlando and Denver who beat the crap out him and play decides a certain present would be good so this cause havoc so meet their other families in this film like when they play Jesus and brad takes the lead in the nativity play this buts questions into Kate head about children as she had a rough childhood plus brad dis like of spewing from children plus a quiz all the couples seem compatible to each other apart from 2 guess who this film is fun and gross but you will be laughing i saw this in the cinemas i give this 7/10 one of the better ROM com Xmas movies his mother her mother her mother his father all in one day this is my 119 review

Maybe you have to be a man to like this film. I hated most of it, to the point that the best part of the film was the ending.Packed full of wonderful stars that obviously had nothing better to do, or were desperate for the money ... as I can see no other reason to be in this disaster.It was nice to see Sissy Spacek, but the part was totally beneath her as an actress of great acclaim and talent. But that can be said for many of those that appeared in this prelude to a panic attack. I rate this film one star above Pee Wee's Christmas DVD ... which remains my all-time favorite personality to avoid at any cost! This DVD goes in the trash.Well, there you have it ... my opinion about this piece of crapola that literally caused me to be nauseous, as well as to have a panic attack! If I was related to these disgusting characters ... I'd send my Christmas List to the AlQaida network in Iraq!

FOUR CHRISTMASES would be nothing without Jon Favreau dry-humping Vince Vaughn's twisted arm. Best part of the movie. I laughed out loud. Then the movie kept going. Unfortunately.In this uneven comedy, Brad (Vaughn) and Kate (Reese Witherspoon) are a boisterous, adventurous young couple who studiously avoid visiting their dysfunctional families every Christmas, opting to take wild vacations - and lie to their families that they are instead doing volunteer work for underprivileged kids overseas. This year, they get busted, and must visit all four of their divorced parents (and extended families) in one day.Now if this were a wonders-of-Christmas movie, it would be bilious enough, but FOUR CHRISTMASES combines the nausea of a Christmas movie with the gut-belching dementia of a marriage-is-awesome movie. Ultimately, Christmas is just a device to drive the unmarried couple into the cloying proximity of family and married life. And to discover the wonders therein. Cue shining rainbows and angels singing.At first, the couple resist the insidious madness. In Brad's words, "You can't spell families without lies." We soon learn he picked up that axiom from his cantankerous dad (Robert Duvall - like Favreau, could carry the movie on his wild boar performance alone!). Brad and Kate have no desire to tie the knot and end up like their dissatisfied and divorced parents. But this movie doesn't leave well enough alone and allow Brad and Kate their fun-loving life of taking impromptu dance lessons or role-playing picking each other up in bars. In the process of visiting their varied families, they come to realize truths about each other and - so the movie tells us - how dysfunctional THEY are for not wanting to end up married! (Nuance: It may be missed by the Great Unwashed, but the message of the movie is not EXACTLY "to be married" but to "be together," which is tantamount to marriage, in gutless modern pc parlance.) I spit on this movie's message! Written by - surprisingly - four guys (Matt Allen, Caleb Wilson, Jon Lucas and Scott Moore) and directed by Seth Gordon, all of whom we can be sure have been pussywhipped into marriage and are now suffering cognitive dissonance, as they promote "married bliss" even whilst showing us every parent in the movie unhappily divorced! To top it all off: disrespectful, unruly kids! Every child in this movie is a brawling, loudmouth brat that deserves to be abandoned in a parking lot. Yet the cognitive dissonance in full swing: Kate gets all swoozy with the desire to have kids after being browbeaten and physically beaten by them. I spit again! Ptuh! Like Mighty Mouse, Jon Favreau saves the day. Favreau is Denver, one of Brad's thick-necked brothers, a tattooed, redneck wrestler who takes every opportunity to bodyslam Orlando (Brad's given name, from the city where he was conceived). Favreau's scenes, along with Duvall's scenes as Brad's father, are like the magic of Christmas and kwanzaa and chanukah and martian-snow-day all rolled into one.Other parenting roles feature Mary Steenburgen and Jon Voight as Kate's separated parents. Then there's Sissy Spacek as Brad's mom, now sleeping with Brad's best friend Darryl (Patrick Van Horn - Vaughn's and Favreau's pal from SWINGERS, 1996!).FOUR CHRISTMASES does have its hilarious moments - installing a satellite dish on Duvall's roof, Brad playing Joseph in a Nativity Scene that he saves with his latent Community Acting talent, Brad's delectably uncomfortable meeting with his mom and her lover - his best friend/step-dad. And any scene that Jon Favreau is in. I love that man!--Poffy's Movie Mania