A sequence in which they dress up as Mary and Joseph for a Nativity play is genuinely funny. The rest of Four Christmases doesn't do them justice.
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11/26/08
Four Christmases (2008)
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Reviews Counted:138
Fresh:35
Rotten:103
Average Rating:4.3/10
Consensus: Despite a strong cast, this sour holiday comedy suffers from a hackneyed script.
Theatrical Release:26-11-2008
Synopsis: Documentarian Seth Gordon (THE KING OF KONG: A FISTFUL OF QUARTERS) makes his feature film directorial debut with FOUR CHRISTMASES. Kate (Reese Witherspoon) and Brad (Vince Vaughn) are a happily... [More]
Starring: Vince Vaughn, Reese Witherspoon, Robert Duvall, Jon Favreau
Director: Seth Gordon
Reviews for Four Christmases
Vaughn may, in fact, be the best possible representative of our over-caffeinated age -- rambling, reckless, selfish and yet still somehow awesome -- and he's what makes Four Christmases as barely watchable as it is.
11/26/08
Of the movie's misaligned stars, it's Vaughn who emerges the least damaged.
11/26/08
Ho, ho, ho? No, no, no.
11/26/08
Do these hypocritical holiday comedies have an alarm clock inside them that goes off when they're suddenly supposed to turn all soft and gooey?
11/26/08
This being a Christmas comedy of sorts, it demands a happy ending of sorts. And a moral too.
11/26/08
Parental Content Review
11/26/08
[A] noxious, nearly laughless Christmas comedy.
11/26/08
It's not all a total loss... if you like the two stars (I do), you'll love them here...
11/26/08
That's funny?
11/26/08
Top Criticideal for anyone who thinks their family is the most dysfunctional during the holidays and yearns to be proved wrong
11/26/08
Surprisingly deft and sometimes hilarious.
11/26/08
When will filmmakers learn that if you start with Bad Santa and finish with It's a Wonderful Life, you just end up with curdled eggnog?
11/26/08
No yuletide season would be complete without the crappy Christmas movie.
11/26/08
A star-studded cast way too talented for the material plod through a painfully rote holiday rom-com.
11/26/08
The acrid, wince-worthy Four Christmases may well be part of the war on Christmas Bill O'Reilly's always fog-horning about. Christmas and Christianity will survive it. But barely.
11/26/08
Use parental caution when opening this early holiday present.
11/26/08
Flailing like a dying fish out of water and eventually smelling just as fetid, Four Christmases is stiflingly unfunny.
11/26/08
To say that Vaughn is phoning it in these days would be an insult to telecommuters everywhere.
11/26/08
Vaughn has little romantic rapport with Witherspoon, so the love story has no pull, but Vaughn is in top center-of-attention form and Witherspoon is a game straightwoman.
11/26/08
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November 30, 2008:
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November 25, 2008:
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