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Four Christmas Makes Me Do It Too!!
This time of year brings a few Holiday theme based movies, the first to arrive is "Four Christmases" a comedy about family ties and the Joy of the Christmas Holiday. When unwed couple Brad (Vince Vaughn) and Kate (Reese Witherspoon) get stranded at the airport in San Francisco, the couple have been lying to their parents, about where they spend the Holiday so they wouldn't have to spend it with any of them. When a newscaster tries to interview the couple they are seen on the local news, and when their parents call them up they have no choice but to agree to a visit. Their first stop is at the home of Brad's father, Howard (Robert Duvall), in the ensuing scenes we see that Brad not only left home to go to college he ran screaming. We meet Brad's (Orlando) brothers Dallas (Tim McGraw) and Denver (Jon Favreau). They are trained UFC fighters and as soon as Brad walks in he is on the floor, it seems the boys have yet to grow up. Denver's wife Susan (Katy Mixon) who is pregnant, again asks Kate to hold her daughter as she cooks a Christmas Meal. When its time to open the presents, the family had set a ten dollar limit, brad did not know about this and his first gift to one of his nephews was an X Box. The second family they visit is the home of Kate's mom, Marilyn (Mary Steenburgen). here Brad gets introduced to Kate's grandmother, who leaves little doubt what she would like to do to Brad. Kate's sister asks her to hold her child while she "Fixes herself" while she is holding the baby, he throws up all over her, forcing Kate to go into the bathroom to clean up, while there, bored she finds a pregnancy test and takes it, going against everything she and brad think about family and kids. When she is done her niece, comes into the bathroom and runs with the test capsule outside to where they have a blow up "jump jump" forcing Kate to go inside. She is man-handled by the kids who play keep away, until she tells them she peed on it. The two join Marilyn and the family at a church service, led by Pastor Phil (Dwight Yoakam) whom Marilyn is dating. Next the couple visit Brads mom, Paula (Sissy Spacek) who is dating an old friend of Brad's. Denver and his wife Susan show up at the mothers house and while they are eating they play a game of taboo, which gets out of hand. The arguments get worse as they go from family to family, as they reach the last home, that of Kate's father Creighton, (Jon Voight) the only sane one of the group. Brad drives off and leaves Kate to go see her father, Brad goes back to his fathers and as they talk, the scene goes from Kate to Brad and we see how alone they are. The scene where Brad comes back is cliched but its cute, as the movie ends the couple have a child of their own, which they hide this fact from their family until a news team comes in - their baby just happens to be the first baby born in the new year- and interviews them. The end is like a scene from the exorcist, the baby that Kate is holding throws up on both of them. I give Four Christmases a 3 and on my avoidance scale I give it a 0. Go laugh and enjoy.
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By Four Christmases, Yes
last modified
12/1/2008 10:44 AM
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