Not exactly a turkey, but it's no golden goose.
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11/27/04
Christmas with the Kranks (2004)
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Reviews Counted:129
Fresh:6
Rotten:123
Average Rating:2.8/10
Consensus: A mirthless movie as fresh as last year's fruit cake, Christmas with the Kranks is a course, garish comedy that promotes conformity.
Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: The Kranks have always celebrated a picture-perfect Christmas. But with their only daughter, Blair (Julie Gonzalo), away from home on her Peace Corps assignment, Nora (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Luther... [More]
Starring: Tim Allen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dan Aykroyd, Erik Per Sullivan
Director: Joe Roth
Reviews for Christmas with the Kranks
Purports to kindle the warm glow of love for humankind in our hearts but actually reaffirms that the trappings of the holiday season are all that really matter.
11/27/04
Hollywood's version of the annual Hallmark Ho-ho-ho card. It's made to order: just slot in the perennial Mr. Santa Claus himself, Tim Allen, and stir.
11/27/04
It's a paragon of irony. A film based on a novel by courtroom aficionado John Grisham could use nothing more than the cold judiciousness of an egotistical trial lawyer.
11/26/04
That Santa Clause guy, Tim Allen, dashes through the winter sludge of another Christmas Carol knockoff.
11/26/04
it’s mean-spirited and ugly-hearted. Everyone who celebrates Christmas is portrayed as a vicious monster, a shallow hypocrite -- if not an outright bigot.
11/25/04
Christmas with the Kranks finds a comfortable balance between hilarious and heartwarming. It's the best of both worlds and a pleasant surprise to find under the cineplex tree.
11/25/04
...one of the most woefully irritating and uneventful so-called comedic Yuletide yawners...a seedless slapstick romp that has all the bounce of a defective pogo stick
11/25/04
Skipping Christmas will earn you a reputation as a modern-day Scrooge. Passing on Christmas With the Kranks ... makes you a wise holiday-movie consumer.
11/25/04
It's a celebration of conformity, a film that begs for laughs by mocking and ridiculing anyone who harbors an original thought or action.
11/24/04
The film becomes incredibly sentimental towards the end -- despite the fact that it absolutely hasn't earned the right to do so.
11/24/04
Stinks like the unrefrigerated ham its studio sent me as a promotion several months ago.
11/24/04
A leaden whimsy so heavy it threatens to crash through the multiplex floor.
11/24/04
One of the worst Christmas movies in years.
11/24/04
Director Joe Roth misses an opportunity for true satire by making the neighbors such insanely over-the-top caricatures that the Kranks seem paragons of normality and perspective.
11/24/04
Should you spend Christmas With the Kranks? Well, perhaps if you're an adolescent boy, or you have nothing better to do, then go for it. Otherwise, make other holiday plans.
11/24/04
This grim holiday-themed comedy is the movie equivalent of getting socks and underwear for Christmas.
11/24/04
Filled with overly processed situations it tries to sell with manic energy, Kranks is canned, hammy and rolling as fast as it can.
11/24/04
Christmas With the Kranks has the special blend of dumb ideas and vulgar sentimentality that Hollywood likes to dispense at this time of year.
11/24/04
This one is a veritable celebration of intolerance, disguised as a joyous holiday film.
11/24/04
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