SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Tymon Sutton The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Kinley This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

jc-osms An amiable if not outright funny Christmas-themed comedy with Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn as an unmarried long-term couple so set in their ways that they role-play nights out in bars to add spice to their relationship. This scene is probably the closest to laugh-out-loud funny in the whole movie as we move on to discover that their four mutually estranged parents are apparently so awful that they'll contrive imaginary charitable holidays to avoid meeting up with them. En route to an exotic holiday to Fiji, their ruse is busted when the flight is cancelled, they're caught off-guard in a TV news piece and inadvertently beamed into the homes of their families who all wonder why they never get to see them over the holidays. Shamed into the Christmas spirit, they make the rounds of their four crazy parents, well, three of them anyway before broody ideas hit Witherspoon's as she finds herself interacting with a succession of babies and infants. Vaughn of course doesn't want to give up their carefree child-free lifestyles but there are no prizes for guessing what makes up the happy ending.Obviously taking "Meet The Parents" as a major reference point, the film mostly manages to avoid crassness (apart from an episode where Witherspoon tries to get back a stolen pregnancy test from her young niece). There are amusing scenes where the hapless couple get roped into playing Mary and Joseph at a school nativity play and participate in a truth-telling board game.Vaughn and Witherspoon play well together and there's lots of celebrity support with Robert Duval impersonating De Niro's latter-day elderly curmudgeon schtick, Mary Steenbergen as a born-again yummy mummy although Sissy Spacek seems miscast as Vaughn's mother who's taken in her son's best pal as her live-in lover.The ending, where the duo apparently find the true meaning and happiness missing in their relationship by eventually having a kid of their own seems to cock an uncharitable snook at other couples who either can't or don't want to have children in their relationships but I'll chalk that one down to holiday sentimentality."Four Christmases" won't go down as an enduring Christmas classic, but with lots of Christmas decorations around and a variable quality soundtrack (Bing Crosby crooning "White Christmas" to a disco beat at the start of the film is a definite no-no) I found it a pleasant enough diversion this particular December as the big day approaches this year.

2karl- so a film comes along for Xmas as this is kind of reality in a way so this film is 1hr 28mins of fun filled angst if you been through it with this all star cast means that the star couple question each others ideas of commitment as they are test to the limit of their own moral ground they try and get away brad and Kate (resse Witherspoon and Vince Vaughan ) they are brilliant in this relationship issues film but anyway the like going away each Xmas to keep away from their family as their respective parents are with other people so with holidays booked and nature decides that Kate and brad are dealt a severe blow to their ideas and get found out in certain media so they have to meet brad father Robert duvall character Howard who likes to drink and play hard along with his son Orlando and Denver who beat the crap out him and play decides a certain present would be good so this cause havoc so meet their other families in this film like when they play Jesus and brad takes the lead in the nativity play this buts questions into Kate head about children as she had a rough childhood plus brad dis like of spewing from children plus a quiz all the couples seem compatible to each other apart from 2 guess who this film is fun and gross but you will be laughing i saw this in the cinemas i give this 7/10 one of the better ROM com Xmas movies his mother her mother her mother his father all in one day this is my 119 review

SnoopyStyle Brad (Vince Vaughn) and Kate (Reese Witherspoon) are very selfish people. They both hate marriage and kids. They can't stand their family or quite frankly any family. They lie to everybody about their Christmas plans and try to vacation in Fiji. Only they are stranded when weather shuts down all the flights. Their families find out their canceled plans when they are surprised on a live TV report. The couple is then forced to visit 4 sets of family Christmases.This is not a likable couple, and Vince Vaughn is stuck playing the same annoying character as he also does. He needs to try to stretch his acting skills because this fast talking jerk character is getting old. It's especially bad when the movie sucks as bad as this. For a Christmas movie, it is a joyless experience. At least, Reese Witherspoon tries to tap into her charm. In the end, none of it works. None of it is funny.

Jackson Booth-Millard I can only think of a couple good Christmas films that have been released in the 2000's, The Grinch and Elf, all the others have been average or terrible, this one was rated very low and I was hoping would not fit the rating the critics give it, so I chanced it. Basically Kate (Reese Witherspoon) and Bradford 'Brad' McVie (Vince Vaughn) have been in love and together for three years, and not being married or having children have their own fun, such as role play experiences, and they plan to spend Christmas coming on vacation, telling their parents they are going to Fiji. But when their flight is cancelled by bad weather and they unintentionally appear on the news, they are forced into having to spend time with their parents, both their mothers and fathers have divorced, meaning that they live separately, and they will have go to four Christmases. Agreeing the safe word "mistletoe" if they want to leave, they start by seeing Brad's father Howard (Robert Duvall) on his farm, with brother Dallas (Tim McGraw) and his two children, and brother Denver (Jon Favreau) and his wife and baby, and they reveal that Brad's real name was originally Orlando and they cause high tension and stress when trying to install a new satellite dish. Next they go to see Kate's mother Marilyn (Mary Steenburgen) along with her sister, her two aunts and her grandmother, and they reveal that Kate used to be fat and they run into some problems on stage when replacing the original stars of the local nativity for the overly religious Christian church. Visiting Brad's mother Paula (Sissy Spacek) who is a hippie, more and more things are revealed that Brad didn't originally know about while being with Kate, this is of course leads to a big argument between them because they have known each other three years and not told the truth about everything in their past. With the couple parted while things cool down and they are ready to talk again Kate goes to the last of the four Christmases alone to see her father Creighton (Jon Voight), who seems like just a regular man, but obviously feels bad for his daughter and urges that she tries to make things right between them. In the end of course Kate and Brad reconcile and promise to tell each other everything in the future, they go on their holiday to Fiji, and year later on New Year's Day they have a baby girl, and they didn't tell their parents this, but again they are unintentionally on the news as the baby is the first new-born in the city. Also starring RV: Runaway Vacation's Kristin Chenoweth as Courtney and Dwight Yoakam as Pastor Phil. Witherspoon is beautiful and lovely, Vaughn is okay, and the supporting actors I guess are fine, I will admit I did like the opening with the odd role play getting into different characters for sex later, but this is the only bit that made me smile and laugh a little, the rest of it is utter rubbish, the four Christmases are too cringe worthy that they are not funny, the characters they visit are either irritating or unbearable, and the situations that they get into are predictable and mostly unoriginal, it is a ridiculous and awful seasonal comedy. Pretty poor!