 | Great surprise movie
rating: 5
This movie was a great surprise. It was one of the funnies movies we had seen in quite a while. We rented it from a video store when we had a friend in, and then we rented it again a week later when our kids came home, and then just decided to buy it because we enjoyed it so much. I looked everywhere for the movie - WalMart, Target, etc. Decided to order from Amazon - got it quickly, as always, with Amazon. Great movie for laughing out loud!
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Reasonably Amusing
rating: 3
Imagine a rich spoiled young man that decides since none of his family or co-workers have invited him for Christmas he will buy it from a family. Affleck plays the spoiled young man reasonably well and the casting of the family is decent. He offers them a quarter of a million to let him stay with them over the week of Christmas. At first things are very strained as he makes all kinds of demands for food and favors but the money makes them grin and bare it. With time an understanding is reached and the family is not quite as dysfunctional.
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I quit after 20 minutes
rating: 1
This is such an artificial movie. Acting is nearby that bad as the storyline. There are really very few movies out there that do not touch me, but this one really does not. Everything is so forseeable. The guy who is big in selling advertisement, presenting his client's product on christmas for the people that have it so hard to go through it with their hatred family, then he for himself does not even have a family and finds himself on christmas alone. Of course as a successfull business man he pays some people to be his family during christmas. It is a wannabe comedy, and the laughers it creates in me are just of that kind of painful-"attention now is coming something they wanted to be funny"-laughing. It is so bad!
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Good product!
rating: 4
Love the movie, and the product was exactly as I had expected! I even received it before Christmas-- Thanks Amazon!
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Ho Ho Humdrum
rating: 1
THIS IS THE WORST EXCUSE FOR A CHRISTMAS FILM I HAVE EVER SEEN. I HAVE SEEN CHRISTMAS TRIVIALIZED AND ABUSED IN MANY WAYS, BUT THIS FILM "TAKES THE CAKE."
FOR ONE THING, THE CASTING WAS WHACKED. THE MAIN ROLE (DREW) SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN GIVEN TO BEN AFFLECK. BEN AFFLECK IS A PERSONALITY ACTOR (BASED ON MY OBSERVATION) AND NOT A CHARACTER ACTOR. IT MAY NOT BE MY BUSINESS TO JUDGE THE WISDOM OF HOLLYWOOD, BUT I'VE HAD ENOUGH TRAINING AND EXPOSURE TO ACTING TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO TYPES OF ACTORS.
THE ROLE OF DREW SHOULD HAVE BEEN GIVEN TO THE LIKES OF JIM CARREY, TIM ALLEN, EDDIE MURPHY, OWEN WILSON, RAY ROMANO, TOM HANKS, ETC. THESE CHARACTERS ARE TRUE-TO-FORM CHARACTER ACTORS; BEN AFFLECK IS MORE SUITED TO DRAMATIC ROLES INVOLVING ROMANCE. IN THIS FILM HE IS NOT HIS NATURAL UNIQUE SELF. HE'S MORE SUITED FOR ROMANTIC, SENSUOUS ROLES THAN COMIC.
AND I THOUGHT THIS MOVIE WAS A TOTAL MIS-MATCH. WHO EVER HEARD OF A PG-13 FILM INVOLVING CHRISTMAS? IF YOU HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH THE TRIVIALIZATION OF THE HOLIDAY, GO FOR IT, THIS MOVIE'S FOR YOU.
THOSE PEOPLE WHO TREAT CHRISTMAS WITH MORE FONDNESS AND RESPECT, DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME. YOU'RE BETTER OFF JUST STICKING TO THE OLD-FASHIONED CHRISTMAS FILMS THAT HAVE WON RESPECTABLE ACCOLADES.
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