Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Projectile baby vomiting is a recurring gag. I cried mistletoe well before the film was halfway through.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 12, 2008

This is marginally better than most, with a few offbeat comic ideas, a reliably droll performance from Vaughn, and, as the parents, four watchable old troupers in search of a fat paycheck.

| Dec 9, 2008

You can see most of the big slapstick set-pieces looming long before they hit but there are a few smaller routines that pack a punch just because they have an unexpectedly manic tilt to them.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 8, 2008

Four Christmases is the kind of film that you should only watch if you're trapped on an airline and can't fall asleep, the kind of holiday film that makes Jingle All the Way look like a cinematic tour de force.

| Dec 3, 2008

Gordon's stars are charmless, his script cheerless, and his sterling supporting cast can't seem to figure out what they've been brought on board to do.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Dec 2, 2008

Witherspoon works hard to convince us otherwise, but this is a miscast mess. Definitely a turkey rather than a Christmas pudding.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 28, 2008

These embarrassing truths, indeed the entire film, take a great deal of hard swallowing. The mawkish ending is thoroughly predictable. But it's not quite as ghastly as the ingredients might suggest.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 28, 2008

In this egregious Christmas movie, Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon each demonstrate the classic "Hollywood romcom" face: waxy as a corpse, dead-eyed with self-loathing.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 28, 2008

Seeing such talent wasted on this dross is dismaying.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Nov 28, 2008

A laboured romp.

| Nov 28, 2008

A fabulous cast is thrown away on forced gags; still, by the genre's standards the message is interestingly complex and ambivalent - pro-family, naturally, but with such qualifications that you almost feel it's sincere.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 28, 2008

It feels like a long slog toward a half-baked ending that wants to have its sugary Christmas cake and eat it.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 28, 2008

Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon play the leads. Do they convince as lawyers or lovers? No. Do they convince as space aliens trying to infiltrate the human race? Yes.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 28, 2008

Seems intent on being as generic and lowbrow as possible, with broad slapstick emphasized over witty dialogue or interesting characters.

| Original Score: C | Nov 27, 2008

We've enjoyed their cocky selfishness; just as much, we bask in schadenfreude when they get guilted into making the familial trail of tears.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 26, 2008

Four Christmases is refreshingly tart and lean, forgoing the usual schmaltz and syrup of the season.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 26, 2008

The difference between the average unfunny comedy and this one is the difference between Grandpa telling you knock-knock jokes and Grandpa telling you knock-knock jokes with his bathrobe open as his hand creeps up your thigh.

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Nov 26, 2008

Think of it as fun tear-away wrapping on what's essentially a boring pair of socks.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 26, 2008

It's Four Christmases in need of a wedding, or maybe a funeral.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 26, 2008