Surviving Christmas | | Cast : | Ben Affleck, James Gandolfini, Christina Applegate, Catherine O'Hara | | Director : | Mike Mitchell (VI) | | Studio : | Umvd/Dreamworks | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby, Surround Sound, Full Screen | | Released Date : | October 22, 2004 | | DVD Released Date : | August 23, 2005 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 21, 2005 | | Summary | Reviewer: Big Zach! NOT A KIDS REVIEW! although a kid! | Content
 | This is a great movie I have no idea why it was a flop. It is a very enjoyable comedy. That will really get you into the christmas spirit. It is one of my all time favorite christmas movies. The stars in it were great also. Ben Affleck was hilarious! He was perfect for the role it really brings a different side to him and shows that he can also be funny besides doing movies like Pearl Harbor and Daredevil.
Christina Applegate(super Hot!) was also very good in this movie shes come a long way from Married with children.
Catherine O Hara(super Hot!) was also very good and very funny.
There was other great stars but I just dont feel like talkin about them.
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| Rating | | | Date | August 19, 2005 | | Summary | Dial 9-1...await further instructions | Content
| You ever notice how Asian women tend to have nicely manicured and perfectly symmetrical hands and feet? It seems like an odd trait to actually be passed down genetically. It makes you wonder if it has anything to do with their diet or the Asian region from which these women hail. Whatever the case, it's an interesting evolutionary study. Anywho, on a separate note, SURVIVING CHRISTMAS was so titanically ballsquelching I suffered from a rare case of what can only be deemed as "peri-rectal stigmata." The only upside being that I now can cross "self-performed fistulectomy" off of my life's "to do" list. Thank you Ben Affleck. Let me know next time you plan on making a movie, so I can pretreat my soon to be decaying flesh with peroxide and epsom salt and contact a Jehovah's witness to record my living will. Blame your agent. Blame the script. Bottom line: You suck Monkey. In fact, next movie, do just that. Suck Monkey for 90 minutes and take comfort it would still only be the second worst film you ever did. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 26, 2005 | | Summary | It was better than I thought it would be! | Content
| I didn't think much of this movie when I saw the ads on TV. I recently saw it on cable the other night. I have to admit that it was much better than I gave it credit for. The movie doesn't dwell on "the woe is me" attitude for too long, which is what I liked about it. Give this movie a chance, you might like it. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 11, 2005 | | Summary | Not good. | Content
| This movie has been widely reviled and rightly so. It's not an easily watched Christmas movie. Or even an easily watched movie. It's crass, demeaning and a little icky. You can only make jokes about what a teenage boy does in his room with a computer so many times. The love interest subplot between Affleck and Christina Applegate changes from "You're despicable, get out of my family home" to "Maybe we should make out." too quickly. Affleck goes from miserable selfish jerk to nice guy too quickly. Did I mention the ick factor?
But if you hate Christmas and you love (and can easily forgive) Ben Affleck, this is your movie. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 28, 2005 | | Summary | A Total Disaster | Content
| This film is one of the worst movies I have ever seen. Affleck is terrible as is pretty much everyone else involved except for Udo Kier who has a small role. The writing is offensive. The direction is unbelievably bad. How did Dreamworks greenlight this? What is the world coming to? Painful to watch. Watch Bad Santa instead a WAY better film. |
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