This is only tangentially related, but it reminds me of a lot of the kids shows now. Yes, they were always kind of bad but at least in one aspect *someone* was trying. Like the animation sucked but the music was awesome or something.
Now I see so many kids shows in which everyone involved just said fuck it and gave 51% effort. Just, so lazy it expresses contempt for the audience.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'll be off listening to the closing credits from "The Raccoons"
My xmas spirit is that even though i know hollywood has long relied on your favorite comedians elevating turdery into being at least in-flight passable, if not actually good, i sometime feel generous enough to give it a chance. However, watching that “family switch” movie on netflix mostly confirmed to me that theyre really just gonna cut all of the actor/personality-based flavor from the movie so even though i had it playing in the background while doing spreadsheets i still felt like an idiot
This is exponentially worse than I imagined from the commercials. I'd be curious to hear what your 10-year old liked about it. The old out of touch person in me wants to think that it's somehow related to TikTok as the film sounds like an unrelated series of unfunny mashups.
I’m late to your review, but I 100% agree with it. I had the exact same reaction and went searching for others to validate it. So thank you for that. Happy holidays!
I watched this last night, then looked to see what kind of review this unusual Christmas movie received. I am somewhat puzzled to understand what the point of the movie was. If it was that the parents need to accept their kids as they are, it was a pretty weak to get there. I thought we were going to have the Chris Carver character win the contest because of his efforts to design and build his own display and his love for Christmas. He complained about the neighbor buying crap from a store, and then he does the same thing. I also thought we might have him learn the true meaning of Christmas and be rewarded with a job offer or something. I was wrong. And as absurd as everything else was in the movie, the cable company sponsoring the 100,000 prize, then at the last minute saying it was a value of 100,000 in coupons for tacos and such was ridiculous. It really did feel like several writers with different ideas throwing pieces of their plots into this contrived mess. Just Awful
I know you are not comparing this to ' its wonderful life'. You know as a kid you didn't like that movie!
This movie is for kids and not those of us that are jaded and full of judgment. Think back on when you were a kid ... go back and watch some those same movies... they are so corny that you have to ask yourself why did I like this movie? I'm just saying..... Enjoy it or not but its worthy of giving it more than a 20 minute watch. MOST HAPPY HOLIDAY!
I've never even seen It's a Wonderful Life so I don't know where that's coming from. And like i said, I would've been fine with corny. I expected corny. Corny is predictable. This was just baffling and off the wall.
I know you are not comparing this to ' its wonderful life'. You know as a kid you didn't like that movie!
This movie is for kids and not those of us that are jaded and full of judgment. Think back on when you were a kid ... go back and watch some those same movies... they are so corny that you have to ask yourself why did I like this movie? I'm just saying..... Enjoy it or not but its worthy of giving it more than a 20 minute watch. MOST HAPPY HOLIDAY!
"Nick (Thaddeus J. Mixon) is a tuba player who does bad in math because he wants to be a music producer." I was a film student who also did badly in math. My parents didn't let me get away with it or accept I was bad at math because believe it or not, colleges don't just give you a pass in a subject because you don't like it.
What did you expect, bro?
He's retarded. XD
This is only tangentially related, but it reminds me of a lot of the kids shows now. Yes, they were always kind of bad but at least in one aspect *someone* was trying. Like the animation sucked but the music was awesome or something.
Now I see so many kids shows in which everyone involved just said fuck it and gave 51% effort. Just, so lazy it expresses contempt for the audience.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'll be off listening to the closing credits from "The Raccoons"
I'll fuckin' run with you on that
That's this a kids show. Only meant for kids. Not for retarded adults. XD
My xmas spirit is that even though i know hollywood has long relied on your favorite comedians elevating turdery into being at least in-flight passable, if not actually good, i sometime feel generous enough to give it a chance. However, watching that “family switch” movie on netflix mostly confirmed to me that theyre really just gonna cut all of the actor/personality-based flavor from the movie so even though i had it playing in the background while doing spreadsheets i still felt like an idiot
The movie was great. One of the best Christmas movies. Sorry but the public decides what is good...not the point of view of journalists...
Lol come on man
Movie critics are so retarded. XD
Lol.
It really is random and I kept hoping it would have some kind of logic. Nothing pays off in the end but I still found it captivating.
The sound effects on the egg shitting geese had me laughing. Should win a special effects award.
Part of being a movie critic is saving people from watching crap when they don't want to watch crap. So this is a successful review!
Nah! Movie critics are just retards. XD
This is exponentially worse than I imagined from the commercials. I'd be curious to hear what your 10-year old liked about it. The old out of touch person in me wants to think that it's somehow related to TikTok as the film sounds like an unrelated series of unfunny mashups.
Terrible story line.
Waste of time and money
Do not bother
Nah! This is a family movie. Not for retarded critics. XD
"Honey, will you please get off your phone?? Our child is taking his first steps!"
"Not now, devil woman! I'm defending Eddie Murphy's Christmas movie online!"
I’m late to your review, but I 100% agree with it. I had the exact same reaction and went searching for others to validate it. So thank you for that. Happy holidays!
I watched this last night, then looked to see what kind of review this unusual Christmas movie received. I am somewhat puzzled to understand what the point of the movie was. If it was that the parents need to accept their kids as they are, it was a pretty weak to get there. I thought we were going to have the Chris Carver character win the contest because of his efforts to design and build his own display and his love for Christmas. He complained about the neighbor buying crap from a store, and then he does the same thing. I also thought we might have him learn the true meaning of Christmas and be rewarded with a job offer or something. I was wrong. And as absurd as everything else was in the movie, the cable company sponsoring the 100,000 prize, then at the last minute saying it was a value of 100,000 in coupons for tacos and such was ridiculous. It really did feel like several writers with different ideas throwing pieces of their plots into this contrived mess. Just Awful
I know you are not comparing this to ' its wonderful life'. You know as a kid you didn't like that movie!
This movie is for kids and not those of us that are jaded and full of judgment. Think back on when you were a kid ... go back and watch some those same movies... they are so corny that you have to ask yourself why did I like this movie? I'm just saying..... Enjoy it or not but its worthy of giving it more than a 20 minute watch. MOST HAPPY HOLIDAY!
I've never even seen It's a Wonderful Life so I don't know where that's coming from. And like i said, I would've been fine with corny. I expected corny. Corny is predictable. This was just baffling and off the wall.
I know you are not comparing this to ' its wonderful life'. You know as a kid you didn't like that movie!
This movie is for kids and not those of us that are jaded and full of judgment. Think back on when you were a kid ... go back and watch some those same movies... they are so corny that you have to ask yourself why did I like this movie? I'm just saying..... Enjoy it or not but its worthy of giving it more than a 20 minute watch. MOST HAPPY HOLIDAY!
Okay, I have a bone to pick here:
"Nick (Thaddeus J. Mixon) is a tuba player who does bad in math because he wants to be a music producer." I was a film student who also did badly in math. My parents didn't let me get away with it or accept I was bad at math because believe it or not, colleges don't just give you a pass in a subject because you don't like it.
LOL at that last phrase.
I just watched Grown Ups with a group of friends (would never subject myself to that alone) and felt a similar experience.
We only lasted 20 minutes. I have no idea what they were thinking but no one turned up.