HOLIDAY - CHRISTMAS WITH THE KRANKS(2004)
Not neerly as bad as I expected! There are some good
portions of this, and the ending is quite cute! Glad
I want ahead and watched it, as I really wasn't going
to! Not Earth shaking, just a pleasent little movie! B
From IMDb.com:
I just watched this movie and thought it was a passable
Christmas movie. Yes I agree with the other poster that
it is a movie meant to generate Christmas spending by
shaming the people who turn away from it like the Kranks,
but it was reasonably funny though. I don't care about its
message, because in the end they showed he had the
Christmas spirit after all. I like Dan Akroyd's militant neighbor
role, and Tim Allen is no stranger to Christmas movies. It
was generally meh though, but got a few laughs from me.
One of my favorite bits was right at the start when that
Santa was trying to sell him the umbrella, and later when
the priest (Looney "It's Lun-nay, it's French" from Family
Matters) encounters them at the tanning salon was pretty
funny too. Overall a family friendly (G rated) comedy with
a heartwarming ending. 6/10 - Spacenaz