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By Frank Ochieng (928) for Movie Eye (513) on 25 Nov 2004

one of the most woefully irritating and uneventful so-called comedic Yuletide yawners...a seedless slapstick romp that has all the bounce…

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By Larry Ratliff (323) for San Antonio Express-News (323) on 25 Nov 2004

Skipping Christmas will earn you a reputation as a modern-day Scrooge. Passing on Christmas With the Kranks…

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By Moira Macdonald (1,892) for Seattle Times (3,524) on 24 Nov 2004

This grim holiday-themed comedy is the movie equivalent of getting socks and underwear for Christmas…

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By Robert Wilonsky (520) for Dallas Observer (1,128) on 24 Nov 2004

As the year stumbles toward its conclusion and critics begin penning their best-and-worst compendiums, here's a holiday contender fit for the…

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By Michael O'sullivan (1,712) for Washington Post (9,851) on 24 Nov 2004

It would be one thing if Christmas With the Kranks were a satire on the assaultive, bullying nature of contemporary Christmas celebration in…

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By Angel Cohn (149) for TV Guide (1,527) on 24 Nov 2004

Curtis' considerable and diverse talents don't go entirely unused…

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By Tracy Allerton (18) for South Florida Sun-Sentinel (746) on 24 Nov 2004

Should you spend Christmas With the Kranks? Well, perhaps if you're an adolescent boy, or you have nothing better to do, then go for it…

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By Carla Meyer (580) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 24 Nov 2004

Filled with overly processed situations it tries to sell with manic energy, Kranks is canned, hammy and rolling as fast as it can…

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By David Elliott (754) for San Diego Union-Tribune (1,408) on 24 Nov 2004

Christmas With the Kranks has the special blend of dumb ideas and vulgar sentimentality that Hollywood likes to dispense at this time of year…

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By Valerie Kuklenski (14) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 24 Nov 2004

There are some funny moments... But they are too few…

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By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 24 Nov 2004

Its main message is that everyone should believe and behave in exactly the same way. Groupthink wins again…

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By Jeffrey Bruner (125) for Des Moines Register (125) on 24 Nov 2004

A band of drunken elves working with leftovers from the Island of Misfit Toys could have pieced together a better holiday film than Christmas…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 24 Nov 2004

In its hostile sitcom way, Christmas With the Kranks is a paranoid comic nightmare of conformity gone mad…

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By Tom Long (1,693) for Detroit News (2,682) on 24 Nov 2004

The script here is barely passable and the direction is downright awful, completely lacking in any sense of comic timing, visual grace or character…

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By Jeff Vice (1,455) for Deseret News (Salt Lake City) (1) on 24 Nov 2004

It's hard to say which is worse in Christmas With the Kranks -- the lame attempts at humor or the even more lame attempts at sentimentality…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 24 Nov 2004

Kranks is a feel-good movie in which every character is hateful (except, sigh, the cancer lady), and a Christmas movie too chickenhearted to…

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By Robert Denerstein (1,148) for Denver Rocky Mountain News (608) on 24 Nov 2004

Grisham usually writes legal thrillers, but the only suspense to be found here consists of wondering whether any laughs will arrive…

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By Sean P. Means (2,056) for Salt Lake Tribune (1,927) on 24 Nov 2004

Roth and Columbus serve up strained slapstick routines, a slew of uninvolving characters and tritely manipulative subplots…

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By Kit Bowen (393) for Hollywood.com (1,014) on 24 Nov 2004

If Christmas means spending it with the irascible, over-the-top Kranks, then taking a Caribbean cruise really does sound like a much better deal…

Review of Christmas with the Kranks (2004)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 24 Nov 2004

Forget the 12 Days of Christmas; there are at least 12,000 ways that 2004's fascistic Christmas with the Kranks earns the honor as the worst…

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