HO, Ho, hhhm. If you like your Eggnog spiked with drivel this is your holiday movie, otherwise I suggest you leave this package under the tree 'til later, much later.
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10/22/04
Surviving Christmas (2004)
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Reviews Counted:108
Fresh:8
Rotten:100
Average Rating:3/10
Consensus: Surviving Christmas is unpleasant characters attacking each other for 90 minutes before delivering a typical, hollow anti-consumerist message
Runtime: 2 hrs 10 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Academy Award® winner Ben Affleck ("Good Will Hunting"), Emmy winner James Gandolfini (TV’s "The Sopranos") and Christina Applegate ("View From the Top," TV’s "Married With Children") star in the... [More]
Starring: Ben Affleck, James Gandolfini, Christina Applegate, Catherine O'Hara
Director: Mike Mitchell
Reviews for Surviving Christmas
Yule be sorry!
10/22/04
Just like many real-life holiday get-togethers with the family, this comedy starts out pleasantly enough but degenerates into awkwardness and furtive watch-checking to see how much longer you have to suffer before you can leave.
10/22/04
Surviving Christmas is about as funny as a rubber crutch for Tiny Tim.
10/22/04
There's a lot to not buy in Surviving Christmas. I recommend not buying.
10/22/04
Maybe the worst thing that can be said for Surviving Christmas is that it doesn't succeed even on its humble level of aspiration.
10/22/04
There's a desperation to Ben Affleck's mugging in Surviving Christmas that, depending on how you look at it, is either endearing or embarrassing.
10/22/04
Even though store shelves are stocked with fright masks rather than tree ornaments, Hollywood is offering its first yuletide romp of '04, and with it comes the risk of early onset holiday depression.
10/22/04
Not since Scrooge got a look at Christmas future have the holidays seemed so shudderingly depressing.
10/22/04
To write off Surviving Christmas as Affleck's folly gives the actor too much credit: He's actually the best thing in the movie.
10/22/04
With a movie this bad, you can sure the DVD will be out before Christmas, just in time to give to someone that you really, really don't like.
10/22/04
It's the most unapologetically wacky holiday-themed movie since National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.
10/22/04
Is it just me, or does anyone else think it odd Dreamworks is releasing a Christmas movie before Halloween?
10/22/04
Critics may be the only people who need to see Surviving Christmas -- and then only those who compile 10-worst lists.
10/22/04
Bear in mind the Yuletide lesson learned by every kid with an earnest aunt: Some presents look a whole lot like punishments.
10/22/04
'Twas two months before Christmas and D-Works offered this 'fleck flick with glee, but not a consumer was caring, not even that one fan of Gigli.
10/22/04
Top CriticThis schizophrenic film veers wildly in tone between unfunny, poorly executed farce and treacle that panders to people who wept at the end of Home Alone.
10/22/04
Can't decide whether it wants to be a black comedy, dumb farce, or sentimental sit-com.
10/22/04
Major stinker. We’re talking hold your nose as you walk past the theater.
10/22/04
Though introduced as a dark comedy, the movie quickly resorts to forced Hollywood humbuggery.
10/22/04
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