An average movie

I wasn't expecting much from this flick but since there was an interesting cast. I thought I should check it out. Eventually, it was pretty average... I mean, to be honest, I'm not a big fan of Christmas movies but, seriously, it must be one of the lamest I have seen. Maybe Vince Vaughn hoped to reach the same success as Will Ferrell had with ‘Elf’ and the fact that the movie was directed by David Dobkin who had just recently a massive success with ‘Wedding Crashers’ seemed also attractive for Vince Vaughn (it would be the 3rd movie they make together). The point is that those Christmas comedies are always misguided and even if this movie might not be the worst one eventually (‘Surviving Christmas’ starring Ben Affleck is pretty horrendous), it was still pretty terrible. The worst thing is that there was indeed a very nice cast (Vince Vaughn, Paul Giamatti, Kevin Spacey, Elizabeth Banks) and you wonder what they saw in this script or maybe there was a juicy paycheck at the end, at least I hope so. Anyway, to conclude, it is actually not really a bad movie but the whole thing was just not really funny or entertaining at all and, ultimately, it is not worth a look in my opinion.

5/10