Salubfoto
It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.
Bob
This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
Staci Frederick
Blistering performances.
jezziebezzie
I'm so glad I waited until a couple of years after Williams passed to watch this. I love nothing more than to DVR a couple of sappy Holiday Movies in the time between US Thanksgiving & Christmas Eve. Williams, Candice Bergin, Joel McHale, Lauren Graham, Clark Duke, Wendy McLendon-Covey & Oliver Platt? It took 0 convincing to queue this one up. It's 88 minutes of grumbling & groaning & whining & unfunny. I'm not sure how it's even POSSIBLE to make an UNFUNNY movie with that cast. Although the movie is so oddly disjointed (are the kids sleeping or awake? When did they go to bed & who put them there?), it's obvious they person in the editing bay had no clue what they were doing. Also, no disrespect to lovely actresses, but WHEN was this movie actually made? I've seen movies several years ago with both McLendon-Covey & Especially Bergen looking MUCH more ... "Experienced?" "Distinguished?" Darn, what's the correct (polite) word for a woman? It almost feels like this movie had been shelved (for good reasons) and then perhaps was 'dredged' up when Williams passed away. Sad. Sad. Sad.
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.
wcraft-4
Spoiler Alert - this is a bad movie and a waste of time to watch. There - I said it,One of Robin William's last movies but you don't want to remember him for this brick. With great talent like Lauren Graham (always lovable), Candice Bergen, and the late great Robin Williams, this movie had so much potential. Great Christmas movies can become classics and no matter what else an actor did, they can be remembered for one memorable holiday movie. Unfortunately, this isn't the case here. It tries to be a "Christmas Vacation" type movie. Dysfunctional family - check. Talented actors - check. Some funny lines - check. A family reunion that fails - check. Good writing - ...... NO check.I really wanted this movie to work and was so excited when I saw it at Red Box. By why had I never heard of it? Turns out it was released this year (2014) and probably went straight to DVD rental - and there is a reason. If you want to remember Robin Williams for his last good movie- go watch "Night at the Museum 3." But please don't remember him for this.
FlashCallahan
Boyd Mitchler and his family must spend Christmas with his estranged family, and especially his father, who ruined the miracle of Christmas for him when he was a child.Upon realising that he left all his son's gifts at home, he hits the road with his father in an attempt to make the 8-hour round trip before sunrise, so he doesn't ruin the miracle for his son, thus turning him into his Father....Christmas films used to be magical, and about sweet saccharine topics, kids defeating wet bandits, Bill Murray kissing Bobcat Goldthwaite, and Chevy Chase speeding down a hill. But it appears that in the advent of Bad Santa, movie studios feel that they need to put a dark edge on all things Christmas, and here is no exception.It's not saying that its a bad movie, it's pretty enjoyable for the most part, and the message of keeping the Christmas dream alive for the kids is there, it's just that parts of the nuclear family aspect are handled sluggishly, and parts that should make you laugh, make you cringe.Such as the Middle Eastern family staying at the Mitchler residence, and the husband who has been charged for being 'rude' just don't cut this type of film, especially when they try and milk the jokes for all they are worth.So we get the husband playing Scrabble using innuendo, and the family being spoken to in their native tongue abhorrently. Oh how we laugh!!Saying that though, the scenes with Willams and his two sons are truly brilliant, and make the whole film worth watching.After all, this is one of the last films he made.Not a great film, but it does have its moments.
