Surviving Christmas
Director: Mike Mitchell
Year: 2004
Stars: Ben Affleck, James Gandolfini, Christina Applegate, Christine O'Hara, Josh Zuckerman
OK, I admit it. I was looking for something easy and quick to watch when I was too lazy to do anything else. This film was left over from just before Christmas (23rd December, to be exact) when I had been recording a fair few movies on TV that I hadn't yet managed to watch. That, along with the title, should give you a pretty clue as to the content of this film.
Ben Affleck is a lonely millionaire who ends up paying a family to spend Xmas with him and show him a "happy holiday". Not entirely sure whether it wants to be a screwball comedy or a standard romantic comedy, it has a stab at both and succeeds as neither. However, it's by far not the worst Xmas movie out there, regardless of what the critics say. Of course, my inexplicable liking of Ben Affleck probably helps - rather than believe he's a rubbish actor, I think he's a not-bad-one-really who has just happened to make some pretty stupid career moves.
So, in conclusion, don't watch this with any preconceived ideas about it being good - just expect a Hollywood Xmas movie and, if you don't mind them, you won't mind this.
Rating: 2.5 out of 5
About Me
- Anna Lawson
- I live in Bristol with my husband Dan (who I married in July 2007), my son Joe (born 2012) and daughter Jess (born 2015). I work at UWE (the University of the West of England) in Bristol as a Research and Open Access Librarian. I'm orginally from Exeter, so moving back to Bristol is a bit like coming home - especially as I studied for my undergraduate degree here (also at UWE). I love travelling and movies, although I get to do a lot less of both since the birth of our children. Although we have still managed to fit in holidays to the Isles of Scilly, Chamonix and a summer in California since Joe was born.
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