CheerupSilver Very Cool!!!

Ploydsge just watch it!

Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Claire Dunne One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Cortney_h Some great laugh out loud lines here. It's not the best movie but if you're looking for Christmas faire (and have seen all the Christmas films and are looking for something new) you should watch this.

Simply-Red ***contains very slight spoilers*** I don't know what to say about the exasperated haters of this movie, so I'll just explain the movie…and life… This movie is rated PG. The Motion Picture Association of America created the ratings in response to people's desire to look at a simple rating to quickly determine if a movie is suitable for children…or tender little sensitive adult minds.The MPAA rating PG is stated as: Some material may not be suitable for children. Parents urged to give "parental guidance". May contain some material parents might not like for their young children.If you want all puppies and perfect Christmas fantasies/stories you should stick with G-rated movies and the Hallmark Channel where all the movies are nearly exactly the same…and safe for the sensitive.Christmas is not all mulled cider, puppies under the tree and red rider BB guns to everyone. For a lot of people, Christmas brings apprehension, family arguments and even depression and big let downs. People are so sensitive to having their little "Christmas Bubble" burst, that if they encounter negativity they want to plug their ears and yell…la la la la la… so they don't have to be exposed to it. When you set expectations so high, you are bound to be disappointed…that's life.That's life…this is the movie: This flick covers the not so perfect…perfection in the end. It's is a harsh, stark reality blast that culminates in a good ending with lessons learned. It's not a feel good move and the comedy is built deep in to the depression and dysfunction.The movie has most of the usual suspects, the bah humbug old man, the kids that already know Santa was a lie all along and the one young boy that still desperately wants to believe in Santa and the dad that desperately wants to provide that Santa for him because HIS dad squashed the idea of Santa for him at a young age.Through all the dysfunction, there is a deeper lesson learned and a reconciliation between a dad and son's long time difficult relationship. The grumpy dad learns a harsh but good lesson in the end.It really is a decent flick and very fitting for Robin Williams' last contribution. Everybody wants to remember him as that nutsy zany character with way too much energy. But, it turns out, like a lot of entertainers, that happy, crazy exterior concealed a dark depression within…and we all know he eventually took his own life in a very unflattering way to the shock of so many. This character of the unhappy old man fits the ending of Robin's life perfectly for me…it all makes more sense now.

Ima Bean Joel McHale plays Boyd, a hipster hedge-fund-managing dad raising a macrobiotic-diet-eating hipster family who finds he'll be visiting his cigar-smoking alcoholic dad (played by the late, great Robin Williams) at Christmas.His brother, Nelson (or Nelly, as dad calls him) is a "war" veteran, having sustained a head injury after falling out the back of a humvee in basic training. He, too, bears the thick-rimmed glasses and bow tie characteristic of a hipster. Nelly, having recently become a father to a Mexican infant boy, shows classy parenting as he blends a bean burrito with some milk while on the phone with Boyd, then feeds this concoction to the infant who seems to eagerly anticipate it.Boyd's sister is white trash and is married to a convicted sex offender with a stupid bowl haircut who has a fondness for Old Milwaukee beer. They've raised two adorable white trash children, one who's an eating competition champ, another who's into 80s-style fashion and likes making YouTube videos of herself shaking her ass for the internet.The stabs at humor are painful at best. I've got to wonder if Robin Williams' expression of his character mirrored his last, dark days. I couldn't make it through the whole movie in part for this reason.It's for the compassionate Wisconsin state trooper character (who lets the speeding characters go in spite of being flipped off by Boyd, in favor of calling it a night to be with his family) is responsible for the star above 1 I give this miserably predictable flick.

billielove Having watched this film and prefer not to watch it again ... I can truthfully say that this project had much to do with Robin's suicide ... a film that he never would have made if he didn't need the money so badly. His character, in this movie, is the extremely opposite of who Robin was ... and I can't imagine any fan that would actually watch this film more than once. I am contemplating throwing it out ... just like I did with Pee Wee Herman's Christmas Video. To be fair ... Pee Wee Herman always gave me the creeps ... making him the total opposite of Robin Williams. Actually, the special features are a million times better than the movie.Candice Bergan ... I had a slight problem accepting this person as being Candice Bergen! Poor casting! There is no way Candice could be like the person she played in the movie. Candice is an out there person that speaks her mind.I guess I'll keep the DVD ... for the extras!