This video was originally posted in December 2012, and this is an extensively re-edited version, as you've likely spotted from the run time. This new version runs a whopping 4m 12s shorter than the original, and not because any jokes have been cut: - *NEW* voiceover for 80% of the review. The narration in the opening and closing portions are intact, albeit re-edited, because they had music beneath them, but entire main body of the video is completely re-voiced. This was during the "angry" phase, and the fact that review lost so much time was simply because I wasn't dragging out every syllable speaks for itself. - Upscaled into HD for the first time! The original master was 640x360, and I've used some editing magic to enhance it up to 720p. Obviously it's not quite up to the level of a true HD master (I don't have the raw files any more), but this looks far better. Let me know what you think of this technique. - Film clips reduced, which had been something of a challenge because it kept getting detected. - Reducing the dragging of syllables during on-camera pieces. I'm really proud of this re-edit, and I hope you enjoy this festive one all over again.

Ironic that despite it being a Christmas film, both Danny DeVito and Matthew Broderick are Jewish. And, if it's any consolation, both hated working on this movie.

Can we all agree Danny devito is just playing his character from it’s always sunny?

Could have worked as a full-blown dark comedy, if they hadn't neutered it. I suspect some studio interference is how its potential got turned into a weak family comedy.

Fun Facts about the cast of this movie: The actress who plays Madison also plays Maeby in Arrested Development and her date is played by Cory Monteith (Finn from Glee)

Is there anything that can crush the joy from the holidays faster than a Hollywood Christmas comedy? Full of ridiculous cartoonish characters, tired cliches, contrived ridiculous situations, unfunny slapstick, and mean-spirited jokes, but invariably ending with a forced schmaltzy scene of everyone coming together and forgiving each other when they realize the true meaning of Christmas. RETCH!

I love the cast of this film (yes, even Matthew Broderick), but man is it terrible. In many ways, it's a lot like Christmas With The Kranks: great cast and a decent premise wrapped up in awful gags, contrivances up the wazoo, and a general mean spirited nature that's completely contrary to what Christmas is supposed to be about. Screw both movies, I'm sticking to the classics.

Happy belated, Matthew! You were born on a comedian-heavy day: Bette Midler, Woody Allen, Sarah Silverman, Richard Pryor. I was just listening to a podcast about this movie; Broderick was very depressed during the filming, saying "this is the bottom". And DeVito couldn't wait to fly away every weekend on his jet.

I miss these Bad Movie Beatdowns.

Wait buddy is supposed to be the protagonist I thought he was the Villain of the story.

17:48 WHY didn't they have their daughters tell them that they're participating in this show to prevent that DISGUSTING moment from happening?

This movie looks like it was made in the 1990s. I actually thought it was until that kid mentioned Halo.

25:55- I honestly think it would've been better if it was all the people with their cellphones that made the house visible from space. It wouldn't make any sense, but it would at least keep the message of the movie intact.

I think I'll stick with "Christmas Vacation".

13:34 Hold up...the Sheriff who's wearing women's clothing...THAT'S GARRY CHALK! He's a well-known voice actor who's been in many cartoons such as Reboot, the Transformers anime series voicing Optimus Prime and LOTS of other shows. Heven appears in live-action movies every once in a while in bit parts, including the first Sonic movie. Hope he got payed well for being in this crap.

Happy birthday. Hopefully you didn't lose your sanity reviewing this movie

4:45 A FEEEEEEEEEEAMILY PICTURE!

12:00 Ironically, it was the Puritans who outlawed Christmas back in the mid-1600s. (*1647 in England, 1659 in Massachusetts)

5:58- Originally he yelled "JEEP!" right here. LOL. Oh, and a big thanks for trimming down that Steven-and-Buddy-in-a-sleeping-bag scene, it makes it a lot less painful to watch.

Loved Matthew Broderick as the voice of adult Simba in The Lion King and Danny Devito as the guest voice of Homer Simpson's long lost brother Herb

The more I think about it, this movie would've worked a lot better as a highly cynical black comedy in the vein of Bad Santa. Granted, it also would've required a ton of great writing and directing, but I think the idea of a neighbourhood competing with each other for the best-decorated house at Christmas could've potentially worked, particularly if it were a South Park episode or something like that and it honestly wouldn't surprise me if that's how it was originally conceived because I do feel like you see glimpses of that in the finished film, which is just so sanitised and awkward and unfunny that it hurts to even think about.

12:00 You'd be surprised how many movies largely depend on the characters being stupid. 13:30 Actually that's not completely accurate. It is possible to make a joke funny even if the audience already knows or can suspect what the punchline is going to be, but of course there is a trick to it, and it all comes down to timing and presentation. An old or predictable joke can be made funny with the right timing and delivery...unfortunately for this movie it doesn't have very good of either. 15:28 I'm pretty sure this is one of those movie plots that was written using Looney-Tunes-style logic. Who knows? If they had made this into a cartoon then it probably would have been a hit. XD

My parents took me to see this film in the cinema when it came out in 2006, I should've called social services after that! ;-)

This reminds me of "Neighbors" that dire black comedy where Belushi and Ackroyd played against type, but it just turned out kinda creepy and boring

17:50 that girls face is pretty much everyone's reaction to this movie.

I knew the movie was stupid, but not "law" stupid. In the real world the main characters could be getting big time in jail for everything they did.

love that "i got some beers lets drink em!" guy from Dead Man On Campus!

Thanks for uploading! You are right, because when comparing this version of the review to the original, you do sound MUCH calmer.

You can tell this was festive because they released it in November.

I didn't laughed at the lame jokes at the movie but I sure did have a great laugh at your review. xD

Happy birthday month Matthew. You are better than the platform hosting you

Belated Happy Birthday 🎂 What an godawful movie. I lucked out and had never heard of it. After seeing your review, I’m glad I hadn’t. Sorry you had to suffer thru it because you were clearly snapping at the end.

I'd like to point out its illegal to block off a driveway.

@20:52 Nobody tell Mr. Kirkman I was on fox.

11:04 - Brooklyn Nine-Nine was able to make burning Christmas trees funny

These two make Clark Griswold look mature.

Happy birthday, Film Brain! :)

Happy belated birthday, Mathew. lol

This is my favorite review

I feel great regional embarrassment for Global BC News journalist Jill Krop (renamed "Jill Crop" for the film). Watching part of my childhood in this movie is tough to stomach.

/ I noticed that the Jeep that Buddy's family owns keeps changing from Red to Blue throughout the movie . WTF....

25:00 Watch as the wife almost knocks her precious vase over by backing up her chair without looking at it once!

happy birthday again, matt!

Happy birthday film brain

3:50 - I guess Alia Shawkat was the member of the 'Arrested Development' cast who drew the shortest straw between cancellation and revival.

Happy early birthday cause it’s the end of may when this is posted 😂

I just noticed that the Halls were played by actors who were in the original AND new My Little Pony movies respectively. I can almost TASTE the brony tears

From the guy who directed Malibu's Most Wanted everyone.

Please do Four Christmases one of these days. I know you only do requests via Patreon but this one really deserves a beating.

Alot of Christmas movies i’ve seen are all just the same, i only know a handfull of Christmas movies that are unique and not just the same (most of those are animated), also why would the town set up a show that is basically sexualising 15 year olds

When I see a Christmas tree burning I don’t laugh I just find it depressing and horrific. There is that plus, call the fucking Fire Brigade!!!!!🚨🚒

Awesome review! I’m a big fan of Danny DeVito from “Always Sunny in Philadelphia”. Was very sad when it was removed from Netflix recently... oh well. Great vid, thanks for the laughs and keep rocking!

Nice to rewatch this review! Great job with the editing and replacing V.O.; I know that stuff is pretty labour-intensive 😅

Happy Birthday!

Have you ever considered reviewing Surviving Christmas? Or is it one of the movies that's the boring kind of bad rather than the interesting kind of bad?

12:54 dat face doe XD

There are certain things Mathew Broderick should never say. "Hey, baby. Who's your daddy?" is one of them.

Burning Christmas trees? SYMBOLISM!!!

This was the first movie I came close to walking out of. The scene with the Christmas trees on fire ugh. Man was this movie hard to watch.

26:08 When they re show the Map of Massachusetts it Over lights up on the left instead of the far right? Where the House is.

How did this cost $51 million?

As an American in the suburbs, they really don't care about fireworks. Trust me.

Thought I would say the movie was shot in Cloverdale BC in the middle of a very hot summer so all the snow was fake and the actors were overheating in the winter clothing.

Happy Belated Birthday! :D Or, Happy Early Birthday! Your birthday, your choice.

I actually got some fun and entertainment out of this. Its not in the league of Christmas Vacation or Jingle All The Way. But Danny De Vito makes it work for me.

just seen it at library two week ago

As someone who loves Danny Devito, just watch the Always sunny in Philadelphia Christmas special for a better black holiday comedy than this.

Happy birthday!

Happy birthday Buck!!,

Man, this movie has an absolutely shitty script. I didn't like any of the characters in it because they were all written so poorly and terribly. No actor could have delivered them believably or with any humor or entertainment value. And some of the cast members were going through various personal issues at the time, which made their performances even worse. It's truly one of the worst Christmas themed comedy films ever made. And I'd go so far as to say I'd rather watch the one with the Kranks than this!

Oh Hi Hal Cooper from Riverdale. Oh Hi Maebe from Arrested Development. Oh Hi Charlotte from Sex and the City. Wow, glad everyone in this movie has better shit on their IMDb page. Happy Belated B-Day Brain!

Alia Shawkat, I was thinking more of Arrested Development fame. And not from season 4 and forward

how Broderick gets any offers is beyond comprehension. he is the very worst.

13:35 OPTIMUS PRIMAL, NOOOO! NOOO! WHY ARE YOU IN THIS FILM, GARRY?! WHY!?

That comment about DeVito thinking this film he's acting in is a dark comedy is interesting, considering his last directing credit to date "Duplex" bombed and so did this film. Also, homophobic humor, men wearing women's undergarments, hot twin sisters, baiting into incest, and a whole lot of dark shit that tarnishes the name of Christmas... all in the name of Christmas. Were the people at the MPAA high when this film was submitted to them? Because there is no way all that shit I just described qualifies for a PG rating. Not to mention, "the only time Jesus is mentioned in the name of Christmas?" What the hell does Mathew think this is, a Christian Christmas film? Which is ironic, considering Broderick is a Jew. This was another horrid Christmas family film of 2006, the other one being "Unaccompanied Minors" (directed by a guy who would later go on to direct films you might have of heard of: "Bridesmaids", "The Heat", "Spy", and... sigh "Ghostbusters 2016"), which deserves a BMB because my two younger bros watched this film a few times, and my family has mostly completely shit taste in films, causing me to become a snobby, elitist, entitled asshole. Anyway, this is why I prefer other Christmas films such as "Bad Santa".

26:01 low pitched Wilhelm.

is this what frank reynolds did before returning to dennis and dee?

If this movie has a satirical element like national lampoon Christmas vacation

happy belated birthday, hope you got lots of presents

Is there any good films Matthew Broderick been in lately?

So much electricity... 😨

happy birthday Matt

7:25 -...nah, too easy...

I had to watch this review after the movie. I had to find out if the movie was really as bad as I thought it was, it is totally awful.

Better late than never. Happy Birthday!

Never heard of this movie but wow. I rolled my eyes every time there was a "funny" moment and couldn't believe how...shitty it all seemed.

Damn it Gary chalk!

Everytime I see Danny's character in this I keep on thinking this is a alternate universe where Frank Reynolds didn't married Dee and Dennis's mom. Now where the hell is Charlie??

Having a mom that likes this movie is. Alittle sad

Review The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause

Review jingle all the way 2. And Santa clause 3.

This is my Christmas movie

Happy day late bday wish

17:49 when I watched that part, I laughed my ass off because it was the only funny scene.

That camel spit looks like what I spit up after a night of drinking rum. 😳😬

How is saying Jesus considered cursing?

Hell the Christmas special from It’s Always Sunny would be way less awkward family viewing compared to this crap!

Actually, I thought Deck the Halls & Fred Klaws were ok. Christmas with the Kranks, however, goes to the special he--.

I like both Kristins (Davis and Chenowith) but they sure as hell couldn't save this drivel!

I even named this as #7 in my list of worst movies of 2006.