Deck the Halls (Blu-ray) PG
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 33 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: October 6, 2015
- Originally Released: 2006
- Label: 20Th Century Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Matthew Broderick & Danny DeVito | |
Performer: | Kristin Davis, Kristin Chenoweth, Alia Shawkat, Kelly Aldridge, Fred Armisen, Gillian Vigman, Ryan Devlin, Jorge Garcia & Gary Chalk | |
Directed by | John Whitesell | |
Screenwriting by | Matt Corman, Chris Ord & Don Rhymer | |
Composition by | George S. Clinton | |
Produced by | Michael Costigan, Arnon Milchan & John Whitesell | |
Executive Production by | Jeremiah Samuels |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: D --
[Deck the Halls] wants to be both naughty and nice, but just ends up feeling deeply confused.
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AV Club
Rating: 2/6 --
Laden with false climaxes, the overstuffed plot leaves you exhausted well before the movie ends, and the amiable actors sleepwalk through their uninspired roles.
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Time Out
Rating: 1/4 --
This nonsense seems to have been conceived on the back of a snot-soaked tissue by a none-too-bright third grader.
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Film Frenzy
Rating: 1.5/4 --
The gags land like lumps of coal, but at least the unnatural mounds of fluffy white snow remain unsullied in the dreck.
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Boston Phoenix
Rating: C- --
It's a holiday ritual: Each year, American moviegoers get the misanthropically stupid, plastic-satire-of- a-plastic-society Christmas comedy they deserve.
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Entertainment Weekly
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.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 1/5 --
'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.
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BBC.com
Product Description:
A slapstick holiday heart-warmer in the tradition of HOME ALONE, DECK THE HALLS boasts an excellent cast that includes both seasoned actors and promising stars. Matthew Broderick (FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF) stars as Steve Finch, an optometrist in the postcard town of Cloverdale, Massachusetts, who does double duty as the town's "Christmas Guy." Steve was raised as an army brat, and as an adult looks to make up for his childhood's lack of Yuletide cheer, organizing Christmas around a strict regimen of maximum celebration efficiency. Because Steve finds his kids turning out a little weirder than he would like--10-year-old Carter (Dylan Blue) is suffering a midlife crisis and teenage Madison (Aliyah Shawkat, ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT) is a loner with a bad attitude--he deems them in need of heightened holiday cheer. Steve's hopes for the perfect Christmas are disturbed, however, when new neighbors move in across the street. Car salesman Buddy Hall (Danny DeVito, BE COOL), his wife Tia (Kristen Chenoweth, RUNNING WITH SCISSORS), and their blonde-bombshell twin daughters (Sabrina and Kelly Aldridge) are a bit rowdier than most of the folks in the Finches' quiet neighborhood, to say the least. When Buddy takes it upon himself to create an extravagant Christmas spectacle so that his house can be seen from space, the rivalry between Steve and Buddy reaches drastic heights of ridiculousness, until both men learn a little something about the meaning of Christmas.
Although Cloverdale resembles few contemporary American towns in its community made up exclusively of well-to-do Christians, DECK THE HALLS offers much for families to enjoy, with a warm message about the importance of family and the value of spontaneity in a culture of efficiency. Kristen Davis of SEX AND THE CITY charms as Steve's wife Kelly, while Broderick and DeVito are always fun to watch.
Although Cloverdale resembles few contemporary American towns in its community made up exclusively of well-to-do Christians, DECK THE HALLS offers much for families to enjoy, with a warm message about the importance of family and the value of spontaneity in a culture of efficiency. Kristen Davis of SEX AND THE CITY charms as Steve's wife Kelly, while Broderick and DeVito are always fun to watch.