For the sixteenth movie of the 24 Christmas Movies of 2014, my true love gave to me...the worst possible movie you could get out of a cast that includes Ben Affleck, James Gandolfini, Christina Applegate, Catherine OHara, Udo Kier and Stephen Root! 16. Surviving Christmas: Theres a lot wrong with Surviving Christmas and its not hard to see that a lot of it probably boils down to the fact that there are 6 (!) separate writing credits for the movie (Two people credited twice for story/screenplay, then two others with just screenplay) and none of them directed it, so youve got 5 different people having significant input into the direction of the movie. It starts off quite promising with a funny credit sequence of people enjoying the holidays and gradually getting darker and darker (I was bummed that the hilarious Tom Kenny was only used in the opening credits). And the opening of the story, about a millionaire named Drew (Affleck) who is lonely on the holidays and rents a family for Christmas, is actually fairly funny as an anti-Christmas story with a fractured family trying to keep it together for the sake of a big fat paycheque. But once the Applegate character shows up, as a previously unmentioned sister, the movie takes a quick veer into romantic comedy territory then lurches back and forth from quirky to dark, back to quirky, to screwball and never really gets anywhere that feels acceptable. Gandolfini is a lot of fun, though and is probably worth a watch on his own. https://youtube/watch?v=Fekzb5yWBZk
Posted on: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 19:51:33 +0000
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