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Surviving Christmas
2004
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Surviving Christmas
Positive Reviews
3
Negative reviews
29
Average Rating
1.5
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1.5
Advertisement The moral of Surviving Christmas is obvious: Money cant buy happiness.
Av Club
1.5
Despite its formulaic filmmaking and redundancies, Ray can be a blast to watch.
Austin Chronicle
2.0
If one were to dwell on the logic of the story, the film would crumble.
Austin Chronicle
2.0
Surviving Christmas fails as a dark comedy because its not all that dark and not good hearted enough to be heart warming.
Cinema Blend
2.0
Just like many real life holiday get togethers with the family, this comedy starts out pleasantly enough but degenerates into awkwardness and furtive ..
Tv Guide
0.6
The film tries desperately to shove stale jokes at us, not knowing whether it wants to be sweet or cynical.
Combust Ible Celluloid
1.9
Dreamworks Pictures The ersatz comedy is such a waste of talented actors that one wishes the holiday season were behind us and this movie but a distan ..
Usa Today
1.2
A premise this untenable needs more wackiness applied to its execution if its to have any hope of succeeding.
Eric Ds Nider
1.0
Mitchell (Deuce Bigalow) directs it as if its the most madcap comedy ever made, and Affleck unfortunately buys into this approach, giving an over the ..
Shadows On The Wall
1.0
Firstly, there isnt a single funny joke in the entire film, unless you think Gandolfini hitting Affleck in the head with a shovel is funny.
View London
0.5
With toothless satire, dull slapstick, and a cast that ranges from frantic to perfunctory, its a movie that deserves as quick a burial as possible.
Film Journal
3.5
If you wanted to rent a family for any occasion, the Valcos of Surviving Christmas probably wouldnt be your first choice.The gruff father yells at eve ..
Reel Talk Reviews
0.5
type Movie Current Status In Season mpaa PG 13 runtime 92 minutes Wide Release Date 10/22/04 performer Ben Affleck, Christina Applegate, James Gandolf ..
Ew
1.0
Despite the talent involved, this fails to raise so much as a smile, let alone laughs and Christmas cheer.
Empire
1.0
Take away the revealing and touching part, and youve pretty much got a description of the movie itself.
Common Sense Media
2.5
Yet the audience understands that going in and is really just buying a package, one with the lively spectacle of Ben Affleck and a cast of comic actor ..
Sf Gate
1.0
Be warned: this half baked Christmas turkey will cause severe indigestion.
Bbc
1.3
Surviving Christmas rings in the yuletide yucks with an opening montage of miserable people beset by the anti holiday spirit, including a man who thro ..
Slant Magazine
0.5
This latest movie is absolutely awesome in its relentless mediocrity.
Washington Post
1.5
This is a film that perversely refuses to trust its own comic instincts.
The New York Times
2.5
It doesnt help that Affleck and Applegate hold about as much chemistry as a burnt out candle.
The Movie Boy
2.5
Techs are on par with the film a nothing great, but nothing bad, either.
Reeling Reviews
4.5
After 70 minutes of abuse doled out all round, during which you will be invited to laugh at the expense of all these terrible people, suddenly it turn ..
Flickfilosopher
1.9
Unsentimental, non glamorized, and unclouded by the usual overlay of rose colored nostalgia, this is a raw but rewarding motion picture.
ReelViews
2.0
A look at the Laugh Factorys Comedy Camp, which for more than 30 years has offered a place for at risk kids and otherwise to try their hand at stand u ..
Calendar Live
0.6
Drew Latham (Ben Affleck) is a handsome smart millionaire (how he got so rich is a mystery) who is dumped by his girlfriend right before Christmas bec ..
Hollywood
2.5
Latest Entertainment Videos Drew reverts to pre adolescent arrogance but never loses his adult guile.
Seattle Pi
1.0
Of course, its just in time for Halloween, and it is a scary movie.Unfortunately its supposed to be a comedy.
Cnn
0.6
Christina Applegate has an amazing gift for being neck deep in cinematic manure without actually getting any of it on her.
Spliced Wire
1.0
Rosie DiManno: Sometimes, the truth simply will never be known Last week we learned that we likely will never learn the cause of two spectacular myste ..
The Star
2.5
The problem with the movie is that it seems caught between being heartwarming and an all out comedy and so it never fully succeeds at either.
Three Movie Buffs
1.3
Affleck delivers in the more dramatic moments, but its too little too late.
Waffle Movies
2.5
If you like average television sit coms, youll like Surviving Christmas; but if youre looking for wit and humor, stay away.
ComingSoon
1.0
Surviving Christmas wusses out by trying to make itself a warm holiday movie.
Fat Guys At The Movies
1.3
96 photos of Woodward Dream Cruise through the years New York Giants 30, Detroit Lions 17 in preseason game at Ford Field Detroit reacts to passing of ..
Freep
1.5
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Film Force Ign
5.0
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2 The Advocate
2.0
With the release of this wretched film, star Ben Affleck takes one more ragged step in what seems his death march from leading man to celebrity game s ..
Style Weekly
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