Four Christmases (2008)

Vince Vaughn once again plays his
usual laid back “cool guy” type of character in another crappy movie. In this
2008 holiday romantic comedy flick we get Vince Vaughn and Academy Award Winner
Reese Witherspoon as a Californian couple who are forced to spend the holidays
with all of their divorced parents, hence the name Four Christmases, due to the
fact that they can’t go to their usual holiday spot because all the flights in
the San Francisco International Airport have been canceled due to a fogbank. By
spending time with their divorced parents the two main characters start to find
out some “bones” they had in their respective “closets” leaving them to ask a
lot of questions about their relationship.

This film is filled with a great
cast and it can certainly do a whole lot more, but its story, characters and overall
script just plain sucks. I mean the plot is very predictable and the acting by
a lot of the actors is just plain and simple bad. I feel that the movie needed
to be rewritten once again, if it ever was rewritten. It needs more detailed
characters, better dialogue and a highly more imaginative and original plot.
But not everything in the flick is bad there are few things that actually make
you laugh, but they are just too little to surpass badness of this feature.
Overall the picture is just plain bad in its plot, characters and dialogue;
only a few little things are actually funny, but they are very little.

Rating:
1.5 stars out of 5.