Recent Reviews for Christmas with the Kranks
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MCT:June 27, 2008This was a good movie. I really liked how they changed their plans around for their daughter and her boyfriend even though Tim Allens character did not want to have a christmas. He wanted to go on the cruise ship.
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MCT:April 22, 2008"You're skipping Christmas! Isn't that against the law?"
Christmas with the Kranks is the worst Christmas movie bar none. It's a horrible, conventional, and terribly plotted movie that has nothing saving it from total disaster.
After faithfully celebrating Christmas their entire lives, Luther (Allen) and Nora (Curtis) farewell their daughter Blair (Gonzalo) as she is heading to Peru until the following Christmas. As the Christmas season approaches without their daughter, Luther decides to "skip Christmas" and spend the money on a cruise to the Caribbean Islands with his wife Nora. But their neighbours dislike their decision not to join in the Christmas festivities and try everything they can to prevent the Kranks continuing their selfish behaviour.
From square one, the film was doomed to fail. The premise even spelt doom, and is played out with predictable slapstick gags that aren't even funny, and characters that are poorly conceived and executed worse.
The festive spirit is completely sapped from this production, moving from scene to scene of terribly conventional black comedy of things going from bad to worse. Each gag one could see even if it was buried as low in the ground as the movie.
There are lots of loose ends that are never resolved, some of which never given a second thought. And the film is not at all heart-warming, although it tries to be.
And if that's not enough, the concluding animation before the credits was the final nail in the coffin and dug the grave even further.
Tim Allen is horrific here, and is given nothing to work with. Jamie Lee Curtis has lost her touch, and is more annoying than funny. The film is so incredibly corny and predictable, but it's what you get from such an appalling premise.
Honestly, this film rates as one of the worst films of 2004, and one of the worst of all time. -
MCT:April 9, 2008My god, that movie was just awful. Jamie Lee Curtis and Allen are just so fucking stupid here. There is also horrendous jokes involving botox and a snowman.
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MCT:April 5, 2008This movie was just another one of those Christmas movies that looks semi-promising and then ends up being a let-down, it seems to happen every year, hell most years there's not a single good holiday-themed movie that is released.
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MCT:March 30, 2008
Alright, but it was kind of annoying. I kind of think Tim Allen needs to quit making Christmas movies cause it's getting annoying!!
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MCT:February 23, 2008Good old Tim Allen-He's a classic and suits this movie great! lol but how come at the end santa ends up flying in some random blue car--and not in his sled. Lol
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MCT:February 12, 2008
cute christmas story...not as funny as the Griswolds but it works and i can see it time and time again!
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MCT:January 30, 2008
The reason holiday movies need to stop. While not entirely terrible, it just encourages even lower standards to be applied to yuletide cheese.
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MCT:January 7, 2008
Have you noticed how much modern Christmas movies suck? I sat through this, but I'm still not sure why. The acting was mediocre, the plot was wrecked with glorified commercialism, and there really was no legitimate humour of which to speak. Terrible...
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MCT:January 6, 2008A little bit funny, but otherwise it was such a movie you knew whats gonna happend before it did. Thats bad!
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MCT:January 3, 2008
An X-Mas Movie And Just As Well it's Corny Really Corny But It Wasn't Funny Tim Allen IS Talented But He's Wasted But It's Ok For X-Mas Times
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MCT:January 1, 2008i like it and it is funny too. a very good christmas comedy staring Jamie Lee Curtis and Tim Allen!!
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MCT:December 29, 2007
i love it!except its scary when frosty comes alive and when that bad guy goes upstairs and steals stuff
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MCT:December 28, 2007
oh how the boredoms of xmas break force you to watch shows like this! but anyway this show was a liittle different... but enjoyable! tim played his character very well....I hated mr.krank! lol
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MCT:December 28, 2007Since when is Christmas all about decorations and nothing else?? What a conceited, selfish and cruel movie! And I cringe at Jamie Lee Curtis' horrendous overacting. This was such a terrible time at the movies, possibly the worst.
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MCT:December 27, 2007Skipping Christmas is something that nobody can try, and it happened in "Christmas With The Kranks". I watched this movie, followed along with the plot, and learned that Luther (Tim Allen) and Nora Krank (Jamie Lee Curtis) were going to skip 12/25 by saving their X-Mas money on a Caribbean cruise. The whole neighborhood finds out, so the Kranks and their neighbors battle their wits to threaten the X-Mas spirit....until Luther and Nora get a call from their daughter Blair that she's coming home. This leads the Kranks and their neighbors to get back to their Christmas spirit. What a great story, so if you anyone out there is going to skip 12/25, watch "Christmas With The Kranks", and go back celebrating the holiday with your high spirits, okay? I give this movie four X-Mas stars!
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MCT:December 25, 2007
Snother funny Christmas movie. With this one one can see how seriously some people can take the xmas decorations, forgeting what Christmas is really about - giving us some serious laughs on the way.
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MCT:December 23, 2007
Quite funny. Funny how people would want to avoid christmas and how many people would take offend. But the show does show the christmas spirit.
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MCT:December 20, 2007
Good old Tim Allen-He's a classic and suits this movie great! lol but how come at the end santa ends up flying in some random blue car--and not in his sled. Lol
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MCT:December 20, 2007Bit too over the top although the first 15 minutes are ok. It is a Christmas movie though so worth a watch a Christmas.
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MCT:December 15, 2007
This was actually pretty funny, but the newer Xmas movies that come out are never as good as the classics.
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MCT:December 10, 2007
It was funny when they decided to change their mind at the last minute and were hurrying to get everything together. Freezing the sidewalk and the cat was hilarious!
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MCT:December 8, 2007
This is a fun film for the whole family; I love this neighbor hood, and want to find one like it. I'm a Christmas decorating fan
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MCT:December 4, 2007
This was the first movie I picked to kick off my month long Christmas movie marathon 2007 (dec 1)
OK! So this was not the best movie to start with, but it's pretty funny at bits and it does look and feel very Christmassy in the last 30 mins.
It's a bit daft though and feels a bit like an episode of the Outer Limits -
MCT:December 3, 2007
I saw pieces of it when it was on tv, it's an ok movie, coulda been better especially with Tim Allen!
