I've thought about how to improve the movie. Make the daughter 12 years old. Tim Allen is actually the stepdad. Jamie Lee Curtis always grew up and made a big deal around Christmas whereas Tim never did. The movie takes place during their third Christmas together. The first Christmas Jamie and her husband (the real dad) were just separated and Tim gets overwhelmed by the massive Christmas celebration Jamie puts on but begrudgingly goes along with it. Last Christmas they were married and Jamie and Tim have custody of the daughter and again Tim has to put up with the Christmas chaos. This Christmas, the real dad has custody so it will be the first Christmas the Kranks are childless. Tim puts his foot down and says we've done two Christmases your way, this year we do it my way. She begrudgingly goes along with it. Then you can do the vacation bit. Instead of the crazy townspeople, the comedy can come from Jamie trying to sneak the big over the top Christmas stuff behind Tim's back, but Tim putting his foot down. But suddenly, the real dad calls and for some reason, he can't keep the daughter, so he is flying the daughter back last minute to stay with the Kranks. Jamie puts her foot down and says if the daughter is home, the over the top Christmas goes on. Jamie gives a heartfelt speech about Christmas isn't about you but making memories for all. Tim smiles and agrees. Crazy shenanigans ensue. But then Jamie comes to the epiphany wondering why she's doing all this, memories can still be made as long as they are together. So when they pick the daughter up at the airport, they greet her smiling with a third ticket in hand and they fly off to a great vacation together as a family. The End
That movie idea sounds so much better than this and I’m half tempted to take this pitch to Hollywood so it could be made. I can’t though for obvious reasons
The neighbors in this movie reminds me of the people who flip out and rant about how there's a war on Christmas whenever they hear someone say, "Happy holidays!"
@Peter Krug I could say the same over those who complain about Nativity scenes on their neighbor's lawn. But in the past 11 years I've seen such examples decrease while the tin foil hat "war on Christmas" nutjobs have remained surprisingly consistent.
Every single person in this movie is INSANE. I literally don’t pay any attention to what my neighbors do or don’t do for Christmas decor, except to admire their lights. If they don’t decorate, it literally doesn’t cross my mind because it’s NOT MY BUSINESS.
I remember reading an entry in the SCP Foundation that reminded me of this movie. SCP-784, "Christmas Cheer," described as an anomalous neighborhood in Texas covered in Christmas light year-round, always covered in snow. The residents all dress in Christmas sweaters and do nothing but Christmas-related activities. If a non-resident enters and doesn't show enough Christmas spirit, the residents violently assault them, incapacitate them, and drag them into the nearest house. I wonder if the person who wrote that entry saw this movie and thought that the behavior of the neighbors would be good for horror inspiration. I could see that.
I really hate how Nora chastises Luther for not thanking the neighbors for helping set up for Blair's arrival in my opinion he has no reason to thank them because 1. The neighbors never apologize for harassing them throughout the first half of the movie 2. They made it pretty clear they weren't doing this for Luther or Nora and were only doing it for Blaire.
I don't understand the premise of this movie? How, on Earth, is it anyone's business what this couple does or doesn't do for Christmas?! It's their life! Good grief, those neighbors are borderline bullying them for a truly dumb reason. And holy shit, the carolers surrounding the house and hounding them with their singing...I saw that in Suburbicon! I don't, I honestly don't even.
2 years later bro oh my good this movie is shit but the fact that you’re so incensed over the fact that people care what other people do is so sad. Welcome to America. Everyone judges everyone for what they do, or don’t do.
@@diskeyes I'm not American. Never even set foot in America. And what the fuck did you expect in the comment section to a video lambasting a dumb movie?
Davey Jones True. But still I could the neighborhood pressuring them to go on vacation during the holidays even if they didn't want to so they could put up decorations without them knowing.
I remember Jamie Lee Curtis being *extremely* bitter about the negative reception "Christmas With the Kranks" received. She went on a late night talk show (I think it was Leno) to promote the movie; the host made the mistake of mentioning "The Polar Express", which had released around the same time (and was getting a MUCH better reception). Curtis IMMEDIATELY cut him off, angrily ranting about how "The Polar Express" was overrated and overhyped. I remember her being particularly annoyed by the behind-the-scenes interviews with Tom Hanks in the motion capture suit (or, as she called it, the "condom suit"), and saying that the movie "blew its load" before it was even out in theaters. Now, almost 20 years later, people are still watching and emjoying "The Polar Express" every Christmas; NO ONE is watching "Christmas With the Kranks".
I have a deep hatred for this movie considering the ridiculous message that it tries to hammer into the viewers skull and the flat out terrible attempt at trying to be a comedy. This movie left me with a bad taste in my mouth that still bothers me to this day. Everybody was so damn unlikable, Its just stupid that they actually are this selfish up to the point where they harass other people just for their attempt at celebrating Christmas in a different way, thus breaking their tradition, but why should they give a flying fuck about what their neighbors are going to do. The best thing they would have done was leave them alone and that's it. I just fucking hate this movie, it insults the very aspect of trying something new instead of doing the same thing over and over each year. In conclusion: FUCK THIS MOVIE!!!
The neighbors are mad that they aren't celebrating Christmas, but what about the neighbor he borrows the tree from? They leave for Christmas. Is it because they're visiting family and not exactly going on vacation? Does it matter? Also that ham looked completely gross. When it gets run over it doesn't look like that was actually food.
This reminds me of the X-files episode, Arcadia, about a couple who gets killed for not following the rules and regulations of the gated community they lived in. And that episode was creepy as fuck.
OMG that is exactly what I was thinking! Creepy conformist neighborhood taking things a little too far! Except The-Xiles episode craps all over this terrible film.
i watched this movie once, and i hated it. seriously, i actually got offended with this movie, especially because i don't celebrate christmas. it's good to see that you finally decided to review it
what's insulting about this movie is that It's about assholes harrassing a family until they do what they selfishly want and this somehow is a happy ending and the kranks were wrong in skipping christmas. The kranks are assholes, yes, but they are just trying to go on a fucking vacation and they're treated like pariahs and the movie wants us to believe that the kranks were selfish, while harrassing others until they do what you want is fine.
In a Christmas episode of Wings, Joe was moping because he and Helen couldn't go on a skiing vacation because Helen insisted on giving a Christmas party.
This was an Adam Sandler like "Paycheck movie" where the entire movie exists to give some stars off the A list a payday. Only explanation of a name cast doing something so bad. Whole story basically could have been avoided if they told their adult daughter they had plans. The neighbors acted nuts because the premise was soooo thin they needed something, anything else to bump up the run time.
This movie is terrible. One of my neighbors is going on vacation during Christmas and not decorating their house, and I don't see any of my OTHER neighbors banging down THEIR door. They're also not on the front page or any other place in the news.
It's called a movie for a reason, of course this stuff wouldn't happen in real life. It's ok if you don't like the movie, but your reason shouldn't be that it's "unrealistic"
+MelBrooksFan78 Also i need to say this:Fuck Julie gonzalo in the face.There's a reason she has been forgotten unlike Scarlett Johansson and Natalie portman.
@@Seethi_C But this movie is supposed to be set in real world, not in some sick alternative reality. Movies still need to make sense or have a point. You cannot throw crap in blender and then use "just a movie excuse" when people hate it.
I remember seeing commercials for this movie and thinking the whole premise was patently absurd. There hasn't been a good Christmas comedy since Jingle All the Way, and that one was funny for all the wrong reasons!
Maybe John Grisham originally wanted to turn this idea into a legal thriller of a family that just do not want to celebrate Christmas but are harassed to conform by the neighborhood and police but decided it did not sound thriller enough and changed it to a comedy
I remember that when I saw this movie I hated it! The premise is stupid and unrealistic, the suspension of disbelief does not works and I thought that the final speech was gonna be something like: real Christmas is not about decorations, threes or consumerism, it's about family... BUT NO, the final speech is YES CHRISTMAS IS ABOUT DECORATIONS, THEESS AND CONSUMERISM and whoever disagree is a monster.
Enrique isn't soo much likeable as the film gives us not much on him at all, so when everyone is pretty bad at least the non entity will be good by default.
Are we sure this isn’t a horror movie? Creepy invasive neighbors with a cult like obsession they’re forcing on people who don’t want it and making demands to surrender a tribute (frosty) etc?
$6100? Did you buy your daughter a Vespa or something? Are you buying your wife expensive jewelry? Is someone buying you some really expensive golf clubs? WTF? How did you rack up $6100 with *three* people in your household?! And on the neighborhood being obsessed with them not celebrating Christmas, what if there are Jews and/or Muslims in the neighborhood that are celebrating Hanukkah and/or Ramadan. Are you seriously going to force people of other religions to take part in your religious holiday?!
***** They have one. It's called Memorial. It happens sometime around Easter, and all they really do is go to church (or is it kingdom temple, I forgot what they call their house of worship).
Imagine Mr. Scrooge was living in this town. I don't think the three ghost wouldn't need to do anything.... the whole town would do their jobs for them.
"Jingle all the way" is a damn funny film I love to watch every Christmas, and that's a hill I will die on. This movie, on the other hand, can get stuffed.
don't forget, the stupidest part of the WHOLE MOVIE is that they book a cruise that LEAVES on christmas...so they aren't skipping ANY part of the buildup to christmas at all, they're just skipping the week AFTER christmas. if they'd just booked a cruise that left on the 18th, or something, everything would have been fine
That's not all for in the book there was a contest for the best decorated block in the neighborhood hence why the other neighbors reacted strongly to the Kranks' decision to not decorate their house as it would jeopardise the block's chances for the prize of said contest.
So the moral of this story is, never think, or else, your neighbors and loved ones will try to kill you no matter what; if it's good for the kids, it's good for the adults!
It just crossed my mind that this means Dan Aykroyd and Jamie Lee Curtis were re-united 21 years after the Christmas CLASSIC that is Trading Places. Yeah.
You've mistaken 'Erik Von Detten' (Voice of Sid) for 'Erik Per Sullivan' (Youngest brother in Malcolm in the middle) Detten had no affiliation with this movie as far as IMDB is aware
Yes you are right. I am sorry. Per Sullivan did however play Sheldon the Seahorse in Finding Nemo (one of Nemo's three friends at the beginning of the movie).
You're right, Smeghead! This movie is pretty awful for having no-comedy, irritating characters and a terrible message; I don't know what will happen if I compare this with Deck the Halls as worst Christmas holiday comedy. Anyway, Happy Holidays and Happy New Year, Smeghead! And next time...oh dear, your sister REAALLY hated your guts that Christmas.
The people who made this movie are likely also the same people who say they are persecuted for celebrating xmas and want to"bring x Christmas back" etc
Scrooge should have spontaneously appeared in front of him and slapped him upside the head after that calendar scene. And yes, I know Scrooge is fictional, but this nonsense is disconnected enough from reality it’d probably work.
"CONFORM" LMFAO 🤣 Seriously, this is how low comedy and Christmas movies can sink, when a certain TH-camr does a review far funnier than the Christmas comedy itself!
Here's something I noticed. M. Emmet Walsh and Jamie Lee Curtis were in this movie together. They appeared again in the same movie in Knives Out (2019).
I'm guessing the binoculars thing is setting up that they're all neighborhood watch. Though that's only justified by the fact that they were suspicious of Mr. Krank potentially committing breaking and entering. Everything else is completely unnecessary, though then again, it isn't illegal to peep at people who are out in public. It's also worth noting that handing the wavers for a cruise over to someone else would be completely useless. The wavers are in their name, and they cannot be transferred over. In other words, the only people that are allowed to go on that cruise are the Kranks.
I'm surprised that you didn't compare the Kranks' Neighbourhood with Whoville from "The Grinch", it would have been a decent joke. Also, love the DBZA clips you use.
The 2000 Live Action film? Even though The Whos were pretty extravagant in their Christmas celebrations, they don't force anyone to join in. They didn't put a gun to Grinch's head to become the Holiday Cheer-meister. He Volunteered!
... good point. I mean, it is true that Cindy had to put the idea in his head... but that still lends itself to a good joke. "Not even the people of the live-action Whoville were this forceful when it came to christmas, and they practically had yuletide as a blood-type! Heck, even they knew that if Christmas bothered someone for any reason -i.e the Grinch- they just let them mind their own business about it and kept their distance."
I remember the title was Skipping Christmas when it was first advertised. Then, just before its release, they decided to go with Christmas with the Kranks. I guess they were trying to go with the old comedy standby “words beginning with P’s and K’s are more funny!”
MrThischarmingman2 And Film Brain covered it before either of them. But of course Doug's the one who has long abandoned any pretense of following the rules HE HIMSELF set up to begin with.
Justin Sabatini it wouldn’t matter per se, if the critic didn’t make such a big deal about online reviewers re-covering movies that other reviewer‘s have done. He was the one who made that “law“. No that is a stupid one, what really matters is if you steal jokes. And the critic, to his credit didn’t steal any material from this review, he was too busy shitting on the fans who have stuck through with him through all of his bullshit including demo reel, the Patreon scam, him bringing the show back only for it to be demo reel 2.0, You can’t create rules for people to follow, only for you to say that those rules don’t apply to you
I always find it amusing, and amazing, how people think that giving to charity somehow makes you a good person. Giving to most charities is like throwing your money up in the air and seeing where it lands. Sure, there are worthy charities like the Cancer Council or Diabetes America/wherever you are. But there are also a metric ton of charities that are basically tax dodges for the people who head them. There are even charities out there that are actively despised by the people they purport to "help"/"represent". There ought to be a law saying that when your mere existence gives the people you claim you are helping PTSD symptoms, you do not get to be a charity anymore. Then there is the ludicrous idea that the welfare system can be replaced by charity...
I hate myself for watching this a couple years ago...and for watching it a couple times, back then. Hope your holidays were somewhat all right, despite the films you had to review.
Something I noticed you or anyone else has pointed out, who the fuck is enrique. I know the movie says its Blaire's fiancee, but why did she lie about joining the peace corp and going to peru? Has she ever told her parents, evidently not since they seem surprised she is coming back. Why did she not tell them the truth? Did she even know enrique for that long? How the fuck did these 2 even meet. I mean if he's all the way in miami, how in the world did these lovers even well become lovers in the first place. Honestly it feels like this movie pulled this bullshit out of its ass just to give us the second half of the movie.
I’ve been in neighborhoods like this; they’re like little tight-knit towns; everybody knows everything about everybody else. It’s creepy, but it’s true.
If you add up the cost of the donations, presents, decorations, a huge ass Christmas party, buying and shipping Christmas cards which are probably customized, the power to run that shit and the gas to get it to the house, especially since being upper middle class they have to be ostentatious about it and they probably have a lot of extended family to cover, sixty-one hundred seems about right.
From the commercials I figured this would be a light hearted romp dealing with a family having to turn a quiet Christmas at home to a party for their now moved out daughter. Oh how wrong I was.
I thought the movie was funny, stupidly funny, lol but then again I'm easily entertained. It made me laugh every scene though. And the Beatle bug Santa sleigh was a cute thing for the kids seeing this playing on TV in my opinion. Your critiques, are still hilarious lol
The coolest reaction to neighborhood harassment would be a "big suicide C4 explosion from inside the house and shock everyone into thinking they are dead" sequence.
That was actually very intelligent of you to tell us at the very end what you'd be reviewing next, because the very first syllable you blurted out kind of gave it away. Not trying to be an ass, just pointing it out. Great work as usual.
I have a strong feeling this is one of those movies, like The Cat in the Hat and Unfriended, where I'm gonna have an aneurysm from the sheer anger. In this case, it's the sheer 'torture porn' nature of it all.
Throughout the entire movie, I was, honestly, expecting the neighborhood to kidnap the Kranks and sacrifice them to their Frosty deity.
I can picture it: the Kranks trapped in a giant burning Frosty...
@@geckovonparsley8200 NOT THE GINGERBREAD MEN!!! NOT THE GINGERBREAD MEN!!! OH GOD THEY'RE IN MY EYES!!!
@@megatronjenkins2473 That made my day.
@@tylerfish2701 (takes a bow)
#FreeFrosty
I've thought about how to improve the movie. Make the daughter 12 years old. Tim Allen is actually the stepdad. Jamie Lee Curtis always grew up and made a big deal around Christmas whereas Tim never did. The movie takes place during their third Christmas together. The first Christmas Jamie and her husband (the real dad) were just separated and Tim gets overwhelmed by the massive Christmas celebration Jamie puts on but begrudgingly goes along with it. Last Christmas they were married and Jamie and Tim have custody of the daughter and again Tim has to put up with the Christmas chaos. This Christmas, the real dad has custody so it will be the first Christmas the Kranks are childless. Tim puts his foot down and says we've done two Christmases your way, this year we do it my way. She begrudgingly goes along with it. Then you can do the vacation bit. Instead of the crazy townspeople, the comedy can come from Jamie trying to sneak the big over the top Christmas stuff behind Tim's back, but Tim putting his foot down. But suddenly, the real dad calls and for some reason, he can't keep the daughter, so he is flying the daughter back last minute to stay with the Kranks. Jamie puts her foot down and says if the daughter is home, the over the top Christmas goes on. Jamie gives a heartfelt speech about Christmas isn't about you but making memories for all. Tim smiles and agrees. Crazy shenanigans ensue. But then Jamie comes to the epiphany wondering why she's doing all this, memories can still be made as long as they are together. So when they pick the daughter up at the airport, they greet her smiling with a third ticket in hand and they fly off to a great vacation together as a family. The End
This sounds so much better.
That movie idea sounds so much better than this and I’m half tempted to take this pitch to Hollywood so it could be made. I can’t though for obvious reasons
Example #1,808 of "random TH-camr comes up with better idea than professional screenwriters."
At least have Chris Columbus direct it
That's actually much better
The neighbors in this movie reminds me of the people who flip out and rant about how there's a war on Christmas whenever they hear someone say, "Happy holidays!"
@Peter Krug
I could say the same over those who complain about Nativity scenes on their neighbor's lawn. But in the past 11 years I've seen such examples decrease while the tin foil hat "war on Christmas" nutjobs have remained surprisingly consistent.
Yeah, add them to the list of reasons why I don't like this holiday as much as I used to.
The Kranks neighbors are probably the type of people who shit themselves whenever they hear someone say "Happy holidays!"
Every single person in this movie is INSANE. I literally don’t pay any attention to what my neighbors do or don’t do for Christmas decor, except to admire their lights. If they don’t decorate, it literally doesn’t cross my mind because it’s NOT MY BUSINESS.
I remember reading an entry in the SCP Foundation that reminded me of this movie. SCP-784, "Christmas Cheer," described as an anomalous neighborhood in Texas covered in Christmas light year-round, always covered in snow. The residents all dress in Christmas sweaters and do nothing but Christmas-related activities. If a non-resident enters and doesn't show enough Christmas spirit, the residents violently assault them, incapacitate them, and drag them into the nearest house.
I wonder if the person who wrote that entry saw this movie and thought that the behavior of the neighbors would be good for horror inspiration. I could see that.
I think this movie is an unintentional and ironic satire on everything wrong with middle class American suburbs.
Believe it or not my in-laws actually do watch their neighbors with binoculars as a hobby.
The dark years of Jamie Lee's career
I really hate how Nora chastises Luther for not thanking the neighbors for helping set up for Blair's arrival in my opinion he has no reason to thank them because
1. The neighbors never apologize for harassing them throughout the first half of the movie
2. They made it pretty clear they weren't doing this for Luther or Nora and were only doing it for Blaire.
I don't understand the premise of this movie? How, on Earth, is it anyone's business what this couple does or doesn't do for Christmas?! It's their life! Good grief, those neighbors are borderline bullying them for a truly dumb reason.
And holy shit, the carolers surrounding the house and hounding them with their singing...I saw that in Suburbicon! I don't, I honestly don't even.
2 years later bro oh my good this movie is shit but the fact that you’re so incensed over the fact that people care what other people do is so sad.
Welcome to America. Everyone judges everyone for what they do, or don’t do.
@@diskeyes I'm not American. Never even set foot in America.
And what the fuck did you expect in the comment section to a video lambasting a dumb movie?
@@diskeyes I’m not American 😅 but this shouldn’t even happen in real life
I can't even imagine what would happen if a jewish family moved in.
well i think it's a pretty good bet the ADL will be involved :P
Davey Jones True. But still I could the neighborhood pressuring them to go on vacation during the holidays even if they didn't want to so they could put up decorations without them knowing.
+Davey Jones That ADL spies on us all
Sundown Town.
L. T C. It would be a about forcefully converting them while Kirk Cameron break dances
I remember Jamie Lee Curtis being *extremely* bitter about the negative reception "Christmas With the Kranks" received. She went on a late night talk show (I think it was Leno) to promote the movie; the host made the mistake of mentioning "The Polar Express", which had released around the same time (and was getting a MUCH better reception). Curtis IMMEDIATELY cut him off, angrily ranting about how "The Polar Express" was overrated and overhyped. I remember her being particularly annoyed by the behind-the-scenes interviews with Tom Hanks in the motion capture suit (or, as she called it, the "condom suit"), and saying that the movie "blew its load" before it was even out in theaters.
Now, almost 20 years later, people are still watching and emjoying "The Polar Express" every Christmas; NO ONE is watching "Christmas With the Kranks".
I have a deep hatred for this movie considering the ridiculous message that it tries to hammer into the viewers skull and the flat out terrible attempt at trying to be a comedy. This movie left me with a bad taste in my mouth that still bothers me to this day. Everybody was so damn unlikable, Its just stupid that they actually are this selfish up to the point where they harass other people just for their attempt at celebrating Christmas in a different way, thus breaking their tradition, but why should they give a flying fuck about what their neighbors are going to do. The best thing they would have done was leave them alone and that's it. I just fucking hate this movie, it insults the very aspect of trying something new instead of doing the same thing over and over each year. In conclusion: FUCK THIS MOVIE!!!
The neighbors are mad that they aren't celebrating Christmas, but what about the neighbor he borrows the tree from? They leave for Christmas. Is it because they're visiting family and not exactly going on vacation? Does it matter? Also that ham looked completely gross. When it gets run over it doesn't look like that was actually food.
"I think a simple e-mail would have sufficed"
Well, he didn't want them to think he was intentionally wasting their time.
This reminds me of the X-files episode, Arcadia, about a couple who gets killed for not following the rules and regulations of the gated community they lived in. And that episode was creepy as fuck.
That sounds more interesting than this movie is trying to do.
OMG that is exactly what I was thinking! Creepy conformist neighborhood taking things a little too far! Except The-Xiles episode craps all over this terrible film.
@@dustypink4802 CRAP craps over this film.
5:00 They dragged poor Dan Ackroyd into this, didn't they?
Ohh, they dragged poor everyone into this. Kicking and screaming.
And Cheech.
i watched this movie once, and i hated it. seriously, i actually got offended with this movie, especially because i don't celebrate christmas. it's good to see that you finally decided to review it
what's insulting about this movie is that It's about assholes harrassing a family until they do what they selfishly want and this
somehow is a happy ending and the kranks were wrong in skipping christmas.
The kranks are assholes, yes, but they are just trying to go on a fucking vacation and they're treated like pariahs and the movie wants us to believe that the kranks were selfish, while harrassing others until they do what you want is fine.
This is why I don't watch real-life family films.
Tis the season for peer pressure, manipulation, and toxic positivity
Honestly this review is much better then the NC's.
NC went downhill since he went "fuck you if you don't like my unfunny sketches".
I liked NC better when he was a one man show with an occasional guest reviewer.
His sketches are funny though
Agreed. NC is overrated.
tis the season for soul crushing conformity
In a Christmas episode of Wings, Joe was moping because he and Helen couldn't go on a skiing vacation because Helen insisted on giving a Christmas party.
This was an Adam Sandler like "Paycheck movie" where the entire movie exists to give some stars off the A list a payday. Only explanation of a name cast doing something so bad. Whole story basically could have been avoided if they told their adult daughter they had plans. The neighbors acted nuts because the premise was soooo thin they needed something, anything else to bump up the run time.
This movie is terrible. One of my neighbors is going on vacation during Christmas and not decorating their house, and I don't see any of my OTHER neighbors banging down THEIR door. They're also not on the front page or any other place in the news.
It's called a movie for a reason, of course this stuff wouldn't happen in real life. It's ok if you don't like the movie, but your reason shouldn't be that it's "unrealistic"
Seethi C
even so, there's something call suspension of disbelief, and this movie doesn't have it
+MelBrooksFan78 Also i need to say this:Fuck Julie gonzalo in the face.There's a reason she has been forgotten unlike Scarlett Johansson and Natalie portman.
Brian Mcclane
where? in the Bazarro world?
@@Seethi_C But this movie is supposed to be set in real world, not in some sick alternative reality. Movies still need to make sense or have a point. You cannot throw crap in blender and then use "just a movie excuse" when people hate it.
Remember kids, celebrate Christmas, or your neighbors will stalk and torture you! Tis the season!
I remember seeing commercials for this movie and thinking the whole premise was patently absurd. There hasn't been a good Christmas comedy since Jingle All the Way, and that one was funny for all the wrong reasons!
I loved Jingle All The Way too, admittedly parts are cringey, but it didn't take itself too seriously!
This movie just makes me want to watch Freaky Friday.
At least that was a good movie.
Maybe John Grisham originally wanted to turn this idea into a legal thriller of a family that just do not want to celebrate Christmas but are harassed to conform by the neighborhood and police but decided it did not sound thriller enough and changed it to a comedy
I remember that when I saw this movie I hated it! The premise is stupid and unrealistic, the suspension of disbelief does not works and I thought that the final speech was gonna be something like: real Christmas is not about decorations, threes or consumerism, it's about family... BUT NO, the final speech is YES CHRISTMAS IS ABOUT DECORATIONS, THEESS AND CONSUMERISM and whoever disagree is a monster.
and they kinda can party in the cruise they celebrate xmas there too
With a few tweaks, this could become a perfect Christmas horror movie! And why is everyone but Enrique (yes, even Blair the Bimbo) so damn unlikeable?
Gregory House when I first saw this movie, I thought it was a dark-comedy.
We do have one it's called Krampus.
Enrique isn't soo much likeable as the film gives us not much on him at all, so when everyone is pretty bad at least the non entity will be good by default.
What’s wrong with Blaire
Don't forget GARBAGE DAY!
Are we sure this isn’t a horror movie? Creepy invasive neighbors with a cult like obsession they’re forcing on people who don’t want it and making demands to surrender a tribute (frosty) etc?
$6100? Did you buy your daughter a Vespa or something? Are you buying your wife expensive jewelry? Is someone buying you some really expensive golf clubs? WTF? How did you rack up $6100 with *three* people in your household?!
And on the neighborhood being obsessed with them not celebrating Christmas, what if there are Jews and/or Muslims in the neighborhood that are celebrating Hanukkah and/or Ramadan. Are you seriously going to force people of other religions to take part in your religious holiday?!
Dresden Pierce Jehova's witnesses don't celebrate Christmas?
Dresden Pierce ...They seriously have no tradition worth celebrating as a holiday?
Dresden Pierce That's...sad
***** They have one. It's called Memorial. It happens sometime around Easter, and all they really do is go to church (or is it kingdom temple, I forgot what they call their house of worship).
***** -_-
Seeing you wearing a Santa hat always gives me a chuckle for some reason
Are there no Jews in this town?
Nick Smith I'd hate to see what would happen if there were any living in this crazy town.
Tyler Hill I think it would involve a dozen grenade ornaments like in Iron Man 3
Imagine Mr. Scrooge was living in this town. I don't think the three ghost wouldn't need to do anything.... the whole town would do their jobs for them.
SarahRedLeaf and instead of peacefully showing him how important Christmas is, they keep attacking him and give him a heart attack and he dies.
Nick Smith Not anymore,
"Jingle all the way" is a damn funny film I love to watch every Christmas, and that's a hill I will die on.
This movie, on the other hand, can get stuffed.
I still don't get why that movie's so hated.
DBZ Abridged?
Is there no end to your likability?!
don't forget, the stupidest part of the WHOLE MOVIE is that they book a cruise that LEAVES on christmas...so they aren't skipping ANY part of the buildup to christmas at all, they're just skipping the week AFTER christmas. if they'd just booked a cruise that left on the 18th, or something, everything would have been fine
That's not all for in the book there was a contest for the best decorated block in the neighborhood hence why the other neighbors reacted strongly to the Kranks' decision to not decorate their house as it would jeopardise the block's chances for the prize of said contest.
Obviously I liked this video before I began to play it ... such confidence in your content is really well deserved. Happy holidays dear Sean.
So the moral of this story is, never think, or else, your neighbors and loved ones will try to kill you no matter what; if it's good for the kids, it's good for the adults!
Actually, I think it's don't be unlucky and be a dog.
Oh yeah...dat's a good one!
Maybe it's "breaking tradition is hurtful to your neighbors and loved ones, and morally wrong".
No the moral of this story is be a christian or else. it's the usual damn bigotry.
@@SpamEggSausage yeah 😅 I don’t like this message either
It just crossed my mind that this means Dan Aykroyd and Jamie Lee Curtis were re-united 21 years after the Christmas CLASSIC that is Trading Places. Yeah.
Even though they're not Christmas movies, same goes for the My Girl movies.
@@ginnrollins211 Also Curtis and Walsh would re-unite 15 years later for Knives Out.
Fun Fact: Dan Aykroyd's kid in this film is the same kid who played Sid in Toy Story 1.
You've mistaken 'Erik Von Detten' (Voice of Sid) for 'Erik Per Sullivan' (Youngest brother in Malcolm in the middle)
Detten had no affiliation with this movie as far as IMDB is aware
Yes you are right. I am sorry. Per Sullivan did however play Sheldon the Seahorse in Finding Nemo (one of Nemo's three friends at the beginning of the movie).
AmishParadise27 (AKA: Tyler) Also he was Wally in the film adaptation of Leave It to Beaver.
Considering Eric Von Detten is 40 and this movie came out in the 2000s when he would have been in his 20s, no he’s not.
Okay, first; *WHAT!?*
Second; *THE FUCK!?*
Thank you Sean for being nice and telling us what the next movie is. You're awesome! :)
unpopular opinion: jamie lee curtis is carrying the movie on her back, love her comedic timing in this film
BattleField Earth..... My condolences sir.
just because he began with the letters b and a doesn't mean battlefield earth
dion woollaston ...Did you even watch the whole video? He clearly said it's Battlefield Earth.
yes I did and he only said bathat could be any bad film battle for los Angeles battleship I would go on but I can only remember those two
You're right, Smeghead! This movie is pretty awful for having no-comedy, irritating characters and a terrible message; I don't know what will happen if I compare this with Deck the Halls as worst Christmas holiday comedy.
Anyway, Happy Holidays and Happy New Year, Smeghead! And next time...oh dear, your sister REAALLY hated your guts that Christmas.
Great review as always, and I just really want to say thank you,you make us happy every month and we all really appreciate it.
Who's in charge of the town the Kranks are living in? Kirk Cameron?
Maybe this took place in the dimension where Bob Revere became President of the United States.
They should have made this a horror movie, they even had Jamie Lee Curtis.
The people who made this movie are likely also the same people who say they are persecuted for celebrating xmas and want to"bring x Christmas back" etc
Scrooge should have spontaneously appeared in front of him and slapped him upside the head after that calendar scene. And yes, I know Scrooge is fictional, but this nonsense is disconnected enough from reality it’d probably work.
11:19 Mark Wahlberg IS Tim Allen in the Glenn Miller story tonight on NBC
The Home Improvement joke was hilarious.
I laughed at it more than any "joke" in the movie.
"CONFORM" LMFAO 🤣 Seriously, this is how low comedy and Christmas movies can sink, when a certain TH-camr does a review far funnier than the Christmas comedy itself!
Not to mention, this film seems mean-spirited.
YaoiHuntressEarth Agreed. I don't know what Chris Columbus was thinking when he wrote this movie
Smeghead, I think one Christmas, you should review one of the Home Alone sequels. Notably the third one or one of the crappy made for TV sequels.
MelBrooksFan78 or the lousy direct to video ones
MelBrooksFan78 The TV sequels might be a fun idea
I’d love to see him tear apart Home Alone 3-5 limb from limb!
Here's something I noticed. M. Emmet Walsh and Jamie Lee Curtis were in this movie together. They appeared again in the same movie in Knives Out (2019).
Is this movie set in Pat-Robertson-Land?
nope. just some suburb near chicago.
16:38 Nora could easily pick it up in an instant! But no, she had to watch in horror as her ham got run over by a truck.
More like Christmas with the Shanks.
This feels like watching a torture porn film.
I'm guessing the binoculars thing is setting up that they're all neighborhood watch. Though that's only justified by the fact that they were suspicious of Mr. Krank potentially committing breaking and entering. Everything else is completely unnecessary, though then again, it isn't illegal to peep at people who are out in public.
It's also worth noting that handing the wavers for a cruise over to someone else would be completely useless. The wavers are in their name, and they cannot be transferred over. In other words, the only people that are allowed to go on that cruise are the Kranks.
i'd hate to see what would happen if a jewish family moved into this neighborhood
Or a Muslim family.
Thanks for the review Sean! I'm gonna try and persuade Nostalgia Critic to do this, it has his name on it!!!
I'm surprised that you didn't compare the Kranks' Neighbourhood with Whoville from "The Grinch", it would have been a decent joke.
Also, love the DBZA clips you use.
The 2000 Live Action film? Even though The Whos were pretty extravagant
in their Christmas celebrations, they don't force anyone to join in. They didn't
put a gun to Grinch's head to become the Holiday Cheer-meister. He Volunteered!
... good point. I mean, it is true that Cindy had to put the idea in his head... but that still lends itself to a good joke.
"Not even the people of the live-action Whoville were this forceful when it came to christmas, and they practically had yuletide as a blood-type! Heck, even they knew that if Christmas bothered someone for any reason -i.e the Grinch- they just let them mind their own business about it and kept their distance."
I remember the title was Skipping Christmas when it was first advertised. Then, just before its release, they decided to go with Christmas with the Kranks. I guess they were trying to go with the old comedy standby “words beginning with P’s and K’s are more funny!”
Actually, the title was changed to avoid confusion with Surviving Christmas, which was released the same year.
Can you review Space Thunder Kids because I love seeing you suffer?
My question is why anyone would want a canned ham?
Doesn’t surprise me as much since people like canned milk
I'm starting to think that the Nostalgia Critic's stealing from you Smeghead. First, he reviews After Earth, and now, he's reviewed this.
MrThischarmingman2 And Film Brain covered it before either of them. But of course Doug's the one who has long abandoned any pretense of following the rules HE HIMSELF set up to begin with.
Most likely
Justin Sabatini it wouldn’t matter per se, if the critic didn’t make such a big deal about online reviewers re-covering movies that other reviewer‘s have done. He was the one who made that “law“.
No that is a stupid one, what really matters is if you steal jokes. And the critic, to his credit didn’t steal any material from this review, he was too busy shitting on the fans who have stuck through with him through all of his bullshit including demo reel, the Patreon scam, him bringing the show back only for it to be demo reel 2.0,
You can’t create rules for people to follow, only for you to say that those rules don’t apply to you
He did make the same joke about the author that Smeghead did. And end it with “and ____ can suck it.”.
I always find it amusing, and amazing, how people think that giving to charity somehow makes you a good person.
Giving to most charities is like throwing your money up in the air and seeing where it lands. Sure, there are worthy charities like the Cancer Council or Diabetes America/wherever you are. But there are also a metric ton of charities that are basically tax dodges for the people who head them.
There are even charities out there that are actively despised by the people they purport to "help"/"represent". There ought to be a law saying that when your mere existence gives the people you claim you are helping PTSD symptoms, you do not get to be a charity anymore.
Then there is the ludicrous idea that the welfare system can be replaced by charity...
The neighbors are obviously in a cult. It all makes sense when you understand that the movie is set in Utah. 😆
I hate myself for watching this a couple years ago...and for watching it a couple times, back then.
Hope your holidays were somewhat all right, despite the films you had to review.
7:12 if this is how they act with people who don't celebrate Christmas, I'd hate to see what would happen if a Jewish family moved in.
The movie to see if you want a hateful Christmas.
Skipping Christmas isn't a sin but it's still something I'll never consider doing.
Something I noticed you or anyone else has pointed out, who the fuck is enrique. I know the movie says its Blaire's fiancee, but why did she lie about joining the peace corp and going to peru? Has she ever told her parents, evidently not since they seem surprised she is coming back. Why did she not tell them the truth? Did she even know enrique for that long? How the fuck did these 2 even meet. I mean if he's all the way in miami, how in the world did these lovers even well become lovers in the first place. Honestly it feels like this movie pulled this bullshit out of its ass just to give us the second half of the movie.
I remember seeing the trailer for this film when I was little. I always had a feeling it was unpleasant.
I’ve been in neighborhoods like this; they’re like little tight-knit towns; everybody knows everything about everybody else. It’s creepy, but it’s true.
5:48
Was I the only one who thought he was going to say "Batman"?
It's old fashioned, slap stick comedy which is meant to be cheesy and over the top. l LOVE IT.
I have watch all and like the 51 episodes. It took me 5 months to caught up. Can't wait for Battlefield Earth. :)
XD How you survive watching these monstrosities is beyond me. But you taste in Abridged series is spot on. XDDD
How did the alien get out of his head
This movie. The alien must have heard he going to review this movie and ran for the hills (or stars).
Ever thought about reviewing Santa Claus Conquers the Martians?
I'm glad I'm not the only one whose Christmas special for their channel is late.
8:47
"The Bible says a lot of things."
If you add up the cost of the donations, presents, decorations, a huge ass Christmas party, buying and shipping Christmas cards which are probably customized, the power to run that shit and the gas to get it to the house, especially since being upper middle class they have to be ostentatious about it and they probably have a lot of extended family to cover, sixty-one hundred seems about right.
From the commercials I figured this would be a light hearted romp dealing with a family having to turn a quiet Christmas at home to a party for their now moved out daughter. Oh how wrong I was.
So Blair lied about going to Peru? I definitely didn't see that coming!
Really long review, but somehow you did this much better than several of your recent ones, keep it up!
I'm not surprised they spent $6000 if they have to give gifts to everyone in the neighbourhood. Who does that? I dont even know my neighbours.
This should have been done as a horror flick. At least then the neighbors freaking out could make sense... sort of.
I thought the movie was funny, stupidly funny, lol but then again I'm easily entertained. It made me laugh every scene though. And the Beatle bug Santa sleigh was a cute thing for the kids seeing this playing on TV in my opinion.
Your critiques, are still hilarious lol
The coolest reaction to neighborhood harassment would be a "big suicide C4 explosion from inside the house and shock everyone into thinking they are dead" sequence.
That was actually very intelligent of you to tell us at the very end what you'd be reviewing next, because the very first syllable you blurted out kind of gave it away. Not trying to be an ass, just pointing it out. Great work as usual.
6100 dollars?Damn thats alot of money for one holiday.
I have a strong feeling this is one of those movies, like The Cat in the Hat and Unfriended, where I'm gonna have an aneurysm from the sheer anger. In this case, it's the sheer 'torture porn' nature of it all.
When will the next episode of Cinematic Excrement be released?
TFS reference? Subscription earned.