Christmas with The Campbells

Christmas With the Campbells is like a weirdly creative holiday drink; you wouldn’t expect those ingredients to work together, but somehow, they do.

It’s an entertaining effort, one that will certainly pass the time while you’re wrapping gifts or trimming the tree with the TV on. Maybe just make sure the kids are out of the room first.

Although this holiday rom-com attempts something different by sprinkling some spice into the sugar-coated mixture, it all amounts to a lot of naughty talk and no action.

Poorly written, overly optimistic and transparent in its manipulation of anyone watching. Justin Long and the remaining ensemble sleepwalk through a crass script, which puts gender roles back ten years.

A very by-the-numbers romantic comedy... you can predict everything that's gonna happen.

Maybe Christmas fans will enjoy it for what it is, but overall it is an underwhelming attempt that falls short.

The best thing we can say about the movie is that it puts us out of our misery rather quickly, thanks to a short runtime.

Christmas with the Campbells spikes the eggnog with raunchy dialogue, a sexually charged narrative, and wicked double entendres. A good ensemble cast of Hollywood veterans had me laughing out loud when the script starts to meander.

The softly lit camera shots and score will be familiar to anyone who has ever seen a Hallmark Christmas movie. Instead, it adds racier jokes and more adult moments to bring its a different take on a popular genre.

Leave it to Vince Vaughn to take the well-worn tropes of your usual Hallmark Christmas movie and drag them through the sex-crazed innuendo of a horny teenager growing up in the 1990s.