Review of Christmas with the Kranks:
This film started out with a novel idea. 2 parents with no kids left at home decide they don't want to go through with all of the rig-a-ma-roll of x-mas and instead can save the money and take a cruise. Really this is possible one of the best plans I've ever heard.
The film is set somewhere in small town america, where everyone knows everyone else's business and tends to get into everyone else's business as well.
So the Kranks say no to the most BS holiday invented besides valentines day and they are immeaditly assulted by their friends and neighbors, guilted by every schmo charity, hounded day and night by jack ass carolers, prank called by some juvenile dilenquits because they didn't put up some plastic decorations.
To me the film felt a lot like "Saved" in some ways its kind of funny, but for the most part its scary, because these people really do exist, and I'm not talking about the Kranks. One of my top fears would be to have to move into this sort of neighborhood, blue on white shuttered cookie cutter houses, Ginny gossiping to Suzie over their white picket fences, Chuck captain of the neighborhood watch stoping by to tell me my grass needs to be cut. If this isn't hell I don't know what would be.
Oh yeah I was commenting on a movie. It sucked. Too over the top. Same old everyone learns a small town america lesson. Giving up stupid traditions is bad. Giving away trips worth thousands of dollars is good. Go blow it out your rear.
This film started out with a novel idea. 2 parents with no kids left at home decide they don't want to go through with all of the rig-a-ma-roll of x-mas and instead can save the money and take a cruise. Really this is possible one of the best plans I've ever heard.
The film is set somewhere in small town america, where everyone knows everyone else's business and tends to get into everyone else's business as well.
So the Kranks say no to the most BS holiday invented besides valentines day and they are immeaditly assulted by their friends and neighbors, guilted by every schmo charity, hounded day and night by jack ass carolers, prank called by some juvenile dilenquits because they didn't put up some plastic decorations.
To me the film felt a lot like "Saved" in some ways its kind of funny, but for the most part its scary, because these people really do exist, and I'm not talking about the Kranks. One of my top fears would be to have to move into this sort of neighborhood, blue on white shuttered cookie cutter houses, Ginny gossiping to Suzie over their white picket fences, Chuck captain of the neighborhood watch stoping by to tell me my grass needs to be cut. If this isn't hell I don't know what would be.
Oh yeah I was commenting on a movie. It sucked. Too over the top. Same old everyone learns a small town america lesson. Giving up stupid traditions is bad. Giving away trips worth thousands of dollars is good. Go blow it out your rear.
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