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11/20/08
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Deck the Halls (2006)
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Reviews Counted: 78
Fresh: 5
Rotten:73
Average Rating: 2.9/10
Consensus: A Christmas comedy with Matthew Broderick and Danny De Vito has to have some laughs, right? Unfortunately that's not the case. As far as movies about bickering neighbors during the Christmas holiday go, the predictable Deck the Halls is pretty mediocre, with hardy anything to cheer about. It doesn't help that both Broderick's and De Vito's characters are unsympathetic and the 'humor' is on the crude side for a PG movie. You won't see this one on any classic holiday movies list.
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release: Nov 22, 2006 Wide
Box Office: $35,058,863
Synopsis: DECK THE HALLS is a family comedy about one-upsmanship, jealousy, clashing neighbors, home decoration...and the true spirit of the holidays. For Cloverdale, Massachusetts optometrist Steve Finch... [More]
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Danny De Vito, Kristin Davis, Kristin Chenoweth
Director: John Whitesell
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10/18/08
When Matthew Broderick and Danny DeVito team up for a comedy that can't even deliver one well-oiled joke, that's a big problem.
10/07/07
Laden with false climaxes, the overstuffed plot leaves you exhausted well before the movie ends, and the amiable actors sleepwalk through their uninspired roles.
04/14/07
What’s interesting about typical Hollywood Christmas movies is that regardless of how crass, vulgar, or mean-spirited they may be, by the last scene they will inevitably try to wrap viewers in a blanket of warm seasonal cheer.
12/30/06
'My stupidity astounds me!' chortles Danny DeVito in Deck the Halls, a line that pretty much sums up this tale of warring neighbours with very different ideas about celebrating Christmas.
12/30/06
This one follows the depressing pattern of Surviving Christmas and Christmas With the Kranks: enforced holiday cheer gives way to bilious hatred, then hollow forgiveness.
12/26/06
Top Critic Not that we expect much from a Holiday movie about neighbours competing over Christmas lights (how familiar is that?), but John Whitesell's film is so lacking in any plausible plot that I squirmed in my seat throughout the entire duration of the screening
12/19/06
seems to have only been greenlit because producers know that families need PG-rated dreck to occupy the kiddies while mom is out shopping for Christmas presents.
12/17/06
Deck the screenwriter, deck the director--then go and deck your own halls.
12/11/06
Caso você seja diabético(a), cuidado ao assistir a Um Natal Brilhante, pois há um grande risco de vir a sofrer uma hiperglicemia provocada pelo excesso de água-com-açúcar.
12/07/06
A few laughs are sprinkled in this equivalent of a lame sitcom holiday episode, but the broad comedy and treacly ending are unlikely to put anyone in the Christmas spirit.
12/03/06
Watching "Deck the Halls" is like getting a lump of coal in your stocking. Except receiving a lump of coal takes only seconds, while this awful movie goes on for an hour and a half.
12/02/06
[Deck the Halls] wants to be both naughty and nice, but just ends up feeling deeply confused.
12/02/06
You might be wondering just when the heartwarming spirit of the season is going to come crashing down upon these boy-men.
12/01/06
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