Christmas with the Kranks

A must watch during the Christmas season

I bought this film so that I don’t have to look for it online and pay every time I want to watch it, now we can see it every Christmas and not have to look for it online!

Loved the acting. Characters were very believable. Very funny situations. Good moral to the story.

Great Product

Funny story line, great actor/characters, . Purchased at a great price so I can watch more than once. Its part of my annual Christmas watch

We watched this every year during Christmas in my house. Great family movie.

OK, well, only sometimes does it reflect my inner strugle ;-) I like the humor that plays out in the movie about wanting to be able to skip Christmas if they want to. Although I havent felt that extreme about Christmas yet, I do feel that about some holidays and can relate to many of the humorous aspects of their need to avoid it altogether (if only for one year). Of course, everyone comes together at the end to celebrate Christmas as a family and to extend a generous gift to a needy neighbor to give you that warm and fuzzy feeling. It was a nice suprise to see the some chemistry between Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis that reminded me of my own parents and how they handle situations. Looking forward to watching it again this year. Recommend!

Family Christmas movie favorite

OK, this isnt the most profound Christmas movie ever made--we all know what that is already. Nothing will ever touch Its a Wonderful Life as far as great Christmas movies go--very few movies on any subject are that great. But nonetheless, Christmas with the Kranks is a fun movie that demands little in the way of emotional or intellectual devotion--its just a sweet innocent family movie that was designed to make you feel good and hopefully make you laugh a few times and this movie does its job extremely well. I first saw this film on TV and, because I didnt see it from the start, I ordered it online and, by sheer coincidence, it was the first movie I watched on my new TV. I think that both Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis are underrated comedic actors and they both play very likable characters in this film. Yes, of course, the story is contrived and silly and the screenplay has logic gaps that you could drive a Christmas-tree truck through, but its still a fun film that everyone in the family can watch. And there are a few tender moments that are pretty well done. One of the things that I love is the aerial footage of the neighborhood (probably just a model or done with CGI) with all the Christmas lights lit--some extremely pretty photography. The neighborhood in the film is a very idealized vision of suburbia, but thats OK--nothing wrong with playing to peoples fantasies of what life should be. Anyway, not a ground-breaking film by any means, but an extremely pleasant way to sip a cup of tea, eat a few Christmas cookies and enjoy some stress-free Christmas moments. I watched the movie after Christmas because, as much as I love Christmas movies, Ive pretty much grown to loathe what has become of the holiday itself. The frustrating thing for me in watching films like this is wondering: How close was this to being a great film if they had only hired better writers to punch up the script--or perhaps if they had left the original script alone? Im going to read Grishams book and see.

I remember watching this movie with my son at the theater. Its been a tradition ever since. I just love it!