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**_Harmless Christmas fun with Tim Allen, Jamie Lee Curtis and Dan Aykroyd_**
When the Kranks’ daughter goes off to Peru after Thanksgiving, they decide to skip Christmas and spend the money on a Caribbean cruise, but their neighbors bro...
Christmas with the Kranks
2004Movie99 minEnglish
When their only daughter Blair leaves the family nest, Luther and Nora Krank decide to book an island cruise to beat the yuletide blues and just skip the holidays. But their decision to boycott tradition has the whole neighborhood in an uproar, and when Blair calls on Christmas Eve to announce a surprise visit with her new fiancée, the Kranks have just twelve hours to perform a miracle and pull themselves and their neighbors together to throw the best celebration ever!
Insights
IMDb5.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes4%
Metacritic33/100
Google Users56%
Director: Joe Roth•Genres: Comedy, Family, Holiday
Plot Summary
Luther Krank and his wife Nora decide to skip Christmas this year and go on a Caribbean cruise after their daughter Blair announces she won't be home for the holidays. However, when Blair suddenly decides to visit with her new fiancit, the Kranks scramble to pull together a last-minute festive celebration, much to the chagrin of their neighbors.
Critical Reception
The film was met with largely negative reviews from critics, who criticized its predictable plot, uninspired humor, and reliance on holiday clichés. Audiences were also generally unimpressed, leading to a weak box office performance.
What Reviewers Say
- Relies heavily on tired holiday tropes and predictable gags.
- Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis struggle to elevate the thin material.
- A humorless and uninspired Christmas comedy.
Google audience: Google users found the movie to be a disappointing and unfunny holiday film, with many expressing that it lacked the charm and spirit typically associated with Christmas movies. Some appreciated the performances of the lead actors but felt they were not enough to save the weak script.
Fun Fact
The film is based on the 2001 novel 'Skipping Christmas' by John Grisham.
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2 reviews
r96sk
Suitably amusing.
With that said, <em>'Christmas with the Kranks'</em> certainly starts brighter than it ends. I found fun in the opening portion, especially with the two leads. I didn't like the ending as much, I found it too sappy and ...