maritchka This had to be the absolute worst movie I have ever, ever seen. The reason I selected it was because of Tim Allen and Vincent D'onofrio. Allen was good, actually I thought very good, but what happened to D'onofrio? His talent was wasted on this trash. The story line was nonsensical, but I kept watching it just to see if it had a decent ending. The only benefit of watching this tripe was that I folded 4 huge loads of laundry from Christmas guests. Even my 14 year old grandson, who will watch ANYTHING walked away from this.

yvesdemaria Very funny movie, very witty.There is A LOT of subtle humor, you have to look closely at everything and listen carefuly.Dont understand all the very negative reviews here, its not basic and simple titties / d!ck / poop humor like scary movie or american pie for example, i support the good reviews here.Remember look closely and listen carefully, tons of subtle humor and jokes.

rwunder An great ensemble cast, the preview looks fun and engaging, what could go wrong? Well, when you start asking the people around you "Why? Why would they do that?" and it happens a few times, that is a big red flag. The fact that there is literally NO point, no connection between certain characters, events, etc. is another red flag. Ok, bad decision making, no cohesion between elements, a meandering and senseless plot, I feel dumber having to have watched it. And I really like ALL of the stars! Why? Why did this movie have to be so poorly executed? I guess we'll never know.

classicsoncall Another reviewer for this picture says he doesn't believe a town like the one in the story could have so many stupid people in it. Well I beg to differ on that. My town only has about three thousand residents and I could probably come up with a cast for this film. It would have been even easier about four decades ago when the population was less than half that. Seriously, one needs to live in a small town to understand, but as John Mellencamp would put it, "that's good enough for me".Now I haven't seen Tim Allen in many movies, I basically know him as Tim the Tool Man Taylor from the hit TV show. I also know he dabbled as Santa Clause in a series of flicks, so to see him here as an alcoholic dirt bag was quite the shock to the system. Funny, but I never made the father-son connection with Eric Norris (Luke Grimes) until the very end of the story when Larry (Allen) dredged up his bad experience in Vietnam. Don't be fooled by the title of the picture. The fact that it's Christmas time in the movie is ancillary to the story line. Vincent D'Onofrio, who portrays deputy Carl Hooker is straight out of Stallone's "First Blood" playbook as an ignorant redneck, and the film's fatal ending for Tim Allen's character mimics Eastwood at the conclusion of "Gran Torino". I think the film would have been better served to end it right after the siege at Vicente's Liquor Mart, but I guess they needed to tie up Eric's relationship with Kate (Michelle Mylett) for the classic happy ending.