digitalbeachbum I've seen a lot of stinker movies but this takes the cake. There is no chemistry between any of the characters and the movie never made me laugh. Usually I'm willing to give some leeway to holiday movies, but not this one. I thought it would never end.I blame the poorly written script. There is nothing a director or actors could do to improve it. The movie in contrived and rushed. Every scene seems plastic and one dimensional. I prefer Jingle All The Way more than this movie; and that movie was terrible.

adonis98-743-186503 With their daughter away, the Kranks decide to skip Christmas altogether until she decides to come home, causing an uproar when they have to celebrate the holiday at the last minute. Christmas with the Kranks is a 2004 Christmas Family Comedy starring Jamie Lee Curtis (True Lies) and Tim Allen (Toy Story) and it's about the Kranks that try to skip Christmas and go on vacation but everything changes on the last minute when their daughter returns home. Now this film is nowhere near as bad as a 5.2 in my opinion it does have flaws but it's not an awful film first of all Tim Allen, Jamie Lee Curtis and Dan Aykroyd (Ghostbusters) were all terrific and especially the ending for me was very emotional and everyone did a great job in my opinion this is a film that showcases the meaning of "Family" especially since the whole Neighborhood comes together for just one girl and her boyfriend. There are flaws tho like i said with mostly the humor i felt that at times they went a bit way too far and they even used some cgi here and there that wasn't awful but didn't feel right also. Chris Columbus wrote the script so there are a couple of references to Harry Potter and if you blink you will miss them but overall this was a pretty cool Christmas Film and i'm gonna give it an A+

BondFan90 A really horrible film! A piece of rubbish from beginning to end! The humour is forced, rubbish plot and a complete bore fest!The Kranks are a suburban couple, willing to give up Christmas for the sake of a cruise and their neighbours aren't happy. On top of it all, their daughter is coming home with her boyfriend, to spend Christmas with the family. She has a mad obsession with Hickory Honey ham and we have to go through some forced scenes, with her mother going to every shop, trying to get the ham.Tim Allen's character gets Botox and he tries to eat his food, with his face frozen. Like i said, the humour is tired and forced!The best part of this film, was the end credits!

Scarecrow-88 There's an actual scene where Jamie Lee Curtis is going after a runaway ham she paid way too much for and Tim Allen is almost arrested for "borrowing a Christmas tree". It is one of those unfortunate comedy misfires that seemed to pop up a lot around 2004 (like the awful Ben Affleck flick, Surviving Christmas), with too good a cast to be stuck in. Allen nearly kills himself while trying to put a Frosty Snowman figure on the very top of his roof, decides to forgo Christmas with the whole neighborhood up in arms and laying it to them thick for doing so, and purposely plasters water on his driveway so that noisy carolers will slip and fall (!) pretty establishing himself as a major bone of contention during the Holiday Season. Allen wants to use the money normally spent on Christmas festivities and his daughter (gone away to work for the Peace Corps) for a cruise with his wife, but the neighbors are not happy with his decision. Dan Aykroyd is kind of the neighborhood watchdog, a type of respected voice considered a high authority. If he is displeased, then the community backs him. At first, Allen will not decorate, including the Frosty display…this is considered a standard that the neighborhood expects and demands. Allen is at odds with old man M. Emmet Walsh (whose wife is battling cancer), particularly his cat. Their relationship, no matter how strained, doesn't stop Curtis from caring about Walsh and his wife. The film is desperate for laughs: there is a scene where Curtis is attempting to get a tan in a tanning salon, in a bikini, with Tom Poston's priest, among other passersby, catching an eyeful and unable to look elsewhere, while Allen has a botox injection, unable to eat or drink! And the uproar to get a party and decorations together at Allen and Curtis' house before their daughter and her fiancé arrive is a bit far-fetched and rather silly (why not just tell Blair they had planned a cruise and, reason being, her absence was the catalyst in this decision? She is a big girl and can handle disappointment. It is her fault for springing on them her arrival…), but the point of it all is for the Kranks to repair their rift with the neighborhood and to show how the holiday spirit would bring about a coming together and forgiveness. Oh, and the movie wouldn't be complete without a Peruvian ballad! Oh, brother. And Arthur Pendelton, as Marty, who knows people but no one knows him! Cheech Marin and Jake Busey are two cops who have a disregard for Allen over his not buying a calendar from them while not contributing to the cub scouts in buying a tree sets off the animosity of the neighborhood against them. Allen could give tickets to a cruise to two neighbors at the end, but it takes Curtis scolding him in order to do it…he's quite a dick. Curtis, stuck in Christmas sweater and a mop of hair, is too sexy for this rather unflatteringly plain part. This is pretty much exactly as its reputation suggests…not a particularly worthwhile experience. The cast tries hard but the material utterly fails them. It is hard to fathom a neighborhood would give a rat's ass about Allen enough for him to be rescued from a deserved humbling.