Four Christmases [Blu-ray] | ![Four Christmases [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51DYYhUMswL._SL500_.jpg)
| Actors: Reese Witherspoon, Vince Vaughn
Studio: New Line
Category: DVD
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Rating:  14 reviews
Language: English (Unknown)
Media: Blu-ray
Region: 1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 88 Minutes
ASIN: B001CTA1UW
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When your significant other tells you you both need an exit "safe word" before you enter his dad's Christmas gathering, you know you're not in Bedford Falls. But while Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon may not be "It's a Wonderful Life's" George and Mary Bailey, Four Christmases is a modern holiday classic in its own right. For one thing, every family neurosis and dysfunction have taken root in the four families of Vaughn and Witherspoon's characters, Brad and Kate--and the sleek yuppie facade each has built with the other is about to come tumbling down. There are real belly laughs as the couple unexpectedly has to spend holidays with their four extended family groups. "I don't want to speak ill of your mother on Christmas," growls Howard (Robert Duvall) to son Brad, while Brad's bullnecked ultimate-fighter brothers are rassling everything in sight, "but she's nothing but a common street whore." Brad may cringe, but Kate's own family is about to mortify her in abundant ways, from her randy "Gram-Gram" and about-to-pounce cougar mom Mary Steenburgen ("I feel like a Saudi prince in here," marvels Brad as all of Kate's female relatives drape themselves over him), to the revelation to Brad that Kate used to be--how to put this--a bit on the chubby side. If the plot isn't full of surprises, the quips are nonstop and the acting believable and charming. The supporting cast also includes Sissy Spacek, Jon Voight, Jon Favreau and Dwight Yoakam in a memorable turn as the mega-church pastor Steenburgen's character is involved with. It's a comic Christmas blessing, and there'll be no need to say "mistletoe"--at least not till the viewers are home with their own families. --A.T. Hurley
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 Funny holiday movie May 5, 2009
Wiseguy 945 (Omaha, NE)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was not enthusiastic at first to see this movie, but was suprised that it actually was pretty funny. Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon play a couple of typical american couple that tries to hide their families from eachother...then the holidays hit. Not quite an "Old School" or "Wedding Crashers", but this should get a few good chuckles for anybody.
 Bah, Humbug. April 20, 2009
Jason (Backwater, Alabama)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
To the amazement of all their friends, two shallow, unencumbered lovers (Vaughn and Witherspoon), plan vacations every year instead of the agonizing experience of visiting their families. They're opposed to the visits because each of their parents are divorced, and their families dysfunctional. Appeasing their relatives through a barrage of excuses, they happily globetrot across the holidays away. When at the airport for their trip to Fiji weather causes cancellation of their flight (ironic that their excuses ultimately get derailed by an industry known also for making excuses), the couple ends up on the evening news, and the web of deceit unravels. Next up: four Christmas celebrations with four stereotypical families.
Family #1: Poorly trained, pot-bellied, hillbillies who practice mixed martial arts
Family #2: Religious fanatics who all but swing around live snakes
Family #3: Borderline incestuous hippies
Family #4: Repentant father and his unsubtle life lessons amidst a Norman Rockwell painting of life (queue the deep thoughts and life altering moments)
Vince Vaughn typically witty, delivering one-liners, quips, and soon-to-be additions to urbandictionary (i.e. pulling the goalie). His performance at a religious revival with Family #2 was as funny as it was brave; challenging the church in any capacity is questionable at best. Reese Witherspoon rehashes her role from Sweet Home Alabama, only this time she does it without the Alabama.
Ultimately, the hilarious in this movie is inversely relational to the sappy. The light of humor dwindles amidst the sweeping night of Vaughn and Witherspoon realizing they are "missing out" by not having a family, and eventually decays into a feeble attempt at being touching. The problem is that neither the comedy nor the drama takes hold, and this movie gets stuck in the purgatory that sometimes occurs in the rom-com world. The various supporting roles are superb, with Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek, and Jon Voigt to name a few.
Watch it on Christmas if you have already seen A Christmas Story a handful of times, and you can't stop saying, "You'll shoot your eye out."
A Vince Vaughn Christmas January 2, 2009
john m mozuke
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This was a pretty funny Christmas movie. It had a few of the guys from the movie 'Swingers' Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek, and Jon Voight. The cast was really good. I got quite a few chuckles and then of course, because it is a Christmas movie, some heartfelt tugs. Not a big Reese Witherspoon fan, and I am still not but she was ok. Vince Vaughn does his thing and is really funny doing it. John Favereaux also shows up and is pretty funny himself as one of Vaughns meat head brothers.
 Cute Movie December 26, 2008
LaRay Strait (Frostproof,FL USA)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I thought this was a cute movie. I really enjoyed the entire movie and did not doze off once during the movie. I think I really liked it because I could relate to the people in the movie. Not to mention, it kept me laughing the entire time because I could relate. I suggest you see this movie. It is not really bad at all, in my opinion.
 Why December 21, 2008
A. Pierre (Somewheres)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
It seems every year Hollywood busts out a Christmas movie that makes people wonder where has Christmas magic gone? While Deck The Halls was my all time worst Christmas film, this one is a close second. I wanted to walk out after the first half hour. There are a few laughs but the script it poor and it feels like forced acting. If there is a sequel, god help us all.
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