Movie Review: Four Christmases

I did manage a little girl time with some friends on Saturday to go out for dinner and see Four Christmases.

With the star power of Reese Witherspoon, Vince Vaughn headlining and with co stars like Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Jon Voight, Mary Steenburgen, Kristin Chenoweth, Dwight Yochum and Tim McGraw, I guess I expected more.

*Aside.. I AM a movie snob. I'm hard to please.*

Now, the movie which features the couple of Brad (Vaughn) and Kate (Witherspoon) as Christmas skippers (aka jetting off on a vacation while lying to the families) who get caught, is actually pretty funny. For a while. Then the movie gets long and tired. I will admit, that more than once I laughed out loud, but that does not to me a good movie make.

You've got "all kinds" in this family. Kate and Brad both come from divorced homes, so in all they have to celebrate Christmas at four different houses. There's the redneck side of the family, that would be Brad's father & brothers. The hippy side, Brad's mother. The prim and proper- Kate's mother and sister. And the 'normal, but quite well off from the house they celebrated in'- Kate's father.

Some contrived and stupid plot lines intersect with some honest to goodness funny moments to make a Christmas that is more about avoiding family and less about the holiday itself.

I didn't hate this movie, but I surely didn't love it. It was ok. Wish I'd Netflixed it rather than paying ticket price. It was still a fun night out with the girls tho!

This is no Holiday Classic in the making, but is ok for a rental.