CORPORATE LINE: After faithfully and happily celebrating Christmas their entire lives, and with their daughter Blair (Julie Gonzalo) in Peru to serve a stint in the Peace Corps, Luther (Tim Allen) and Nora (Jamie Lee Curtis) Krank are facing the prospect of a very lonely holiday.
THE GOOD: Absolutely nothing.
THE BAD: This is the phoniest and most blatantly egregious sham of trying to profit off Christmas to date. If this is Christmas I’m not sure anyone has seen it before. Writer/Producer Christopher Colubus must be living in a dream world if he thinks anyone can relate to his idea of a regular Midwestern neighborhood like the 1950s neighborhood he tries to create. It’s nearly the same one we see in Home Alone but without anything that makes this movie good.
The attempt at throwing in a few awful twists just because they have no idea where else to go with the film makes it all the worse. How anyone could care about these characters is beyond imagination. You’ll scratch your head in wonderment how the film was even green lighted.
The idea of skipping Christmas isn’t that catastrophic in the real world—would all your neighbors freak out like they do in this movie? Would their world’s come to an end? Would everyone act like such idiots in the real world? No.
FRANKLY: Christmas with the Kranks is a mess. It’s a piece of trash covered with sugar and pinstriped in red. Skip Christmas with the Kranks instead of bailing on Christmas itself.
+ Charlie Craine
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