Cover of Christmas with the Kranks
One of 2004’s commercially most successful Christmas films is Joe Roth’s adaptation of the successful novel Skipping Christmas by author John Grisham. Christmas With The Kranks grossed nearly 73 million US dollars.
The story of Christmas With The Kranks is not too bad, which of course is due to the novel. [...]
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Today I’d like to talk about one of the Christmas DVDs that I personally don’t like very much. Nevertheless it’s a holiday classic.
In the mid-30s a new trend occurred: Laurel and Hardy were put in fantasy, medieval, musical film. Many fans complain about today, because these genres were too “abstract” for the world-famous [...]
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Christmas DVDs have always centered on the topics of love, warmth and happiness. They mainly include family and never forget good morals. The cult comedy Home Alone by Chris Columbus keeps this premise. But in between there is a proper dose of slapstick comedy, with great actors, in an imaginative story.
The plot [...]
The Santa Clause is one of the most beautiful Christmas DVDs of our time. The movie tells the story of newly divorced Scott Calvin who spends Christmas Eve with his son. Suddenly there’s a ruble on the roof and Calvin goes to see, who’s making such a noise. There’s Santa Claus himself, however, he falls [...]
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Charles Dickens‘ Christmas Carol is one of the most adapted-to-film-books of all time. There are good adaptations (The Muppet Christmas Carol) and there are bad examples (too many)! Here we have a very weird version of this Christmas tale. Scrooged an action-packed Christmas Comedy. And, oh wonder: It works!
Scrooged tells the famous story [...]
Cover of Bad Santa
Willie is a cynic. He’s an alcoholic and a sex-addict. And the job of this wretched creature is to bring holiday joy to children as Santa Claus at a mall. Well he doesn’t. Usually he makes fun of the kids or simply screams at them. After work Willie and his colleague Marcus [...]
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Besides A Christmas Story National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation probably is one of the funniest Christmas DVDs. Many people can recite the dialogue word-for-word.
Clark Griswold vows to create “the most fun-filled old-fashioned family Christmas ever,”. As you can guess things are not that easy. Wayward cats, senile aunts, a scrooge-like boss and a cousin [...]