Still as thin as an advent calendar, as dry and overcooked as most Christmas roasts and with jokes even lamer than you'll find in a cracker, 15 years on, Deck has truly cemented its place as one of the all-time festive Hollywood turkeys.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 13, 2021

There's ultimately not a whole lot contained within Deck the Halls worth getting interest in or excited about...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 18, 2020

How do you have Matthew Broderick looking uncomfortable doing physical comedy when physical comedy and wit are his gifts?

| Original Score: 1.0/4.0 | Sep 5, 2020

This nonsense seems to have been conceived on the back of a snot-soaked tissue by a none-too-bright third grader.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 29, 2018

Makes us miss those Home Alone days...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 1, 2011

The gags land like lumps of coal, but at least the unnatural mounds of fluffy white snow remain unsullied in the dreck.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 23, 2009

Ah, another lifeless comedy for the holidays. It's just super to be reminded how mean-spirited and grotesquely commercial the Christmas season can be, isn't it?

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 20, 2008

The distasteful formula is even more sour and ham-handed than usual; Broderick's and DeVito's natural likeability never stands a chance.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 7, 2008

a bit too faux-humbug for me

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 12, 2008

banal

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Oct 23, 2007

When Matthew Broderick and Danny DeVito team up for a comedy that can't even deliver one well-oiled joke, that's a big problem.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 7, 2007

Laden with false climaxes, the overstuffed plot leaves you exhausted well before the movie ends, and the amiable actors sleepwalk through their uninspired roles.

| Original Score: 2/6 | Apr 14, 2007

Even the most dimwitted of kids will see through this poorly made mishmash of every other holiday film.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 30, 2006

What's interesting about typical Hollywood Christmas movies is that regardless of how crass, vulgar, or mean-spirited they may be, by the last scene they will inevitably try to wrap viewers in a blanket of warm seasonal cheer.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 30, 2006

Got any kids who've been naughty this year? Here's their present.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 30, 2006

'My stupidity astounds me!' chortles Danny DeVito in Deck the Halls, a line that pretty much sums up this tale of warring neighbours with very different ideas about celebrating Christmas.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 30, 2006

This one follows the depressing pattern of Surviving Christmas and Christmas With the Kranks: enforced holiday cheer gives way to bilious hatred, then hollow forgiveness.

| Dec 26, 2006

Not that we expect much from a Holiday movie about neighbours competing over Christmas lights (how familiar is that?), but John Whitesell's film is so lacking in any plausible plot that I squirmed in my seat throughout the entire duration of the screening

| Dec 19, 2006

None of this is ever funny, and what's more, we just don't care.

| Dec 18, 2006

seems to have only been greenlit because producers know that families need PG-rated dreck to occupy the kiddies while mom is out shopping for Christmas presents.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 17, 2006