like spending your holiday with relatives from hell
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11/23/04
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
An agreeable, if snowflake-thin stocking stuffer faithfully adapted from John Grisham's 2001 bestseller Skipping Christmas.
11/23/04
Top CriticA USA network-quality script, cobbled together from parts of Home Alone, The Grinch and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.
11/23/04
A deadpan little satire by John Grisham has been reinterpreted as a shrill and mean-spirited orgy of banana-peel pranks.
11/23/04
Lockstep suburban conformism enforced with fascist severity is the ugly (but admittedly sometimes funny) joke driving Joe Roth's family comedy.
11/23/04
Top CriticIf you haven't seen enough films featuring shoppers sprinting to snatch the last ham at the grocery store, electric shocks from Christmas lights, and home decorators toppling off the roof, this is the movie for you.
11/23/04
A peculiar and at times even sour tale about the tyranny of Christmas.
11/23/04
Top CriticA largely mirthless comedy.
11/23/04
Given the tinsel-thin storyline, the typical seasonal gags only elicit perfunctory laughter.
11/23/04
As tasteless and stale as last year's cheese log.
11/23/04
This meretricious claptrap is exactly the kind of baloney it purports to be saving us from...as heavy and unappetizing as last year's figgy pudding.
11/23/04
[Christmas with the Kranks] just made me cranky
11/23/04
Christmas with the Kranks takes the icy throne as the king of all bad holidays movies…except Jingle all the Way.
11/23/04
Okay. It’s official now. I hate Christmas.
11/23/04
Hate Christmas and laughing? This is the film for you.
11/23/04
There hasn't been a more depressing holiday movie since 'Mixed Nuts.'
11/23/04
Spending 'Christmas with the Kranks' is enough to turn the most cheerful Tiny Tim into a grumpy Scrooge.
11/23/04
As I write this...I have just walked out on Christmas With the Kranks after roughly 45 minutes of mind-numbingly humorless, sitcom barrel-bottom idiocy.
11/22/04
Christmas with the Kranks wants to toss out the holiday fruitcake but eat it, too.
11/22/04
It's silly and cute, consistently hitting just the right comedic note.
11/22/04
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