What more can you ask for during these festive seasons. A Christmas themed movie just around Christmas time is an excellent add-on to the busy presents bustling, turkey bookings yada yada.....Four Christmases is basically an adaptation of how normal people would spend their christmases each year - though this movie pretty much added too much flavour to the Turkey stuffing, so to speak.
We have Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon as a joyfully happily unmarried couple whose parents are divorced and remarried (to other people that is). They were on their way to Fiji to escape the typical family reunions during christmas, but with the flight cancelled and accidentally showed themselves on national TV, they could not avoid from skipping those reunions.
So they needed to finish up christmas day visiting all 4 of their parents' house, which they eventually managed to. By house number 2, I was already so exhausted watching 2 insane families. But I had to give the movie a chance. It's Vince Vaughn for goodness sake. So I continued, unwillingly. Turned out, it wasn't so bad after all. Apparently there's 5 oscar winners in the movie, and they didn't even need to act much, with the script being all squishy squashy. I don't even think they'd bothered having a written pre-production script. It was probably all done up during principal filming.
I can't stand watching such movies, but at the same time, I can't stand not watching them. Maybe it's just me, or maybe it's just Hollywood messing up our heads. Overall it was an acceptable Christmas movie and Vince Vaughn always delivers.
3/5 stars
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