Christmas with the Kranks

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Slapstick humor gets a full-body workout in Christmas with the Kranks. Critics were unanimous in their derision, and John Grisham must have gnashed his teeth over what studio-boss-turned-director Joe Roth did to his bestselling novel Skipping Christmas, to which this broad-stroked comedy bears little or no resemblance. The title characters are played by Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis, who decide to skip Christmas because their daughter's in Peru with the Peace Corps. Thus begins a rabid program of enforced conformity when their neighbors (led by Dan Aykroyd) coerce the Kranks into changing their holiday attitude--a change that comes easily when the daughter announces she'll be home for Christmas after all. Imagine if a suburban lynch mob said "Have a Merry Christmas or we'll kill you," and you'll get some idea of what spending Christmas with the Kranks is really like. And if you laughed at the frozen cat, you're probably on Santa's "naughty" list. --Jeff Shannon

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When their only daughter Blair leaves the family nest, Luther and Nora Krank (Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis) decide to book an island cruise to beat the yuletide blues and just skip the holidays. But their decision to boycott tradition has the whole neighborhood in an uproar, and when Blair callson Christmas Eve to announce a surprise visit with her new fiancée, the Kranks have just twelve hours to perform a miracle and pull themselves and their neighbors together to throw the best celebration ever.

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"Never say 'honey hickory ham' to me again".......2007-07-19

I find it amusing that, like the films of "Gone With the Wind" and "The Lord of the Rings", "Christmas with the Kranks" actually retains the final line of the book on which it's based, John Grisham's "Skipping Christmas". Clearly the filmmakers realized that most people, like me, didn't actually read "Skipping Christmas", but glanced at the last line in a bookstore at some point...

Yes, this is a mediocre movie. However, I think the level of vitriol in some of the reviews it has received, both on Amazon and elsewhere, is absurd. I love Roger Ebert and his books collecting negative reviews, but he reviewed "Christmas with the Kranks" as though it were a cultural document of the utmost significance. It's just a silly holiday movie!

One thing I certainly did not like about "Christmas with the Kranks" was the sequence of Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis visiting a tanning salon. People who use tanning salons greatly increase their risk of skin cancer, and I did not appreciate the depiction of this risky behavior on the part of responsible adult characters in a family comedy. But aside from that sequence, "Christmas with the Kranks" is a harmless piece of fun in which it hardly matters if the neighbors are in the wrong (as Ebert alleges), given that everyone teams up in the end anyway.

a very funny.......2007-06-30

dis-functional family christmas movie that y9u can relate too. Huffman is at her frumpy best, but next to la jamie, who wouldnt be?? Rent it for some laugh out loud moments!!!

Christmas movie - Excellent - Christmas with the Kranks.......2007-06-29

I was amazed at the humor in this movie. Awesome movie for Christmas season with lots of laughs for years to come.

Christmas with the "Stanks".......2007-06-16

Boy was this a waste of money! I found myself talking over this movie either making fun of it or telling the characters to get a life. Why in the world is it selfish for a person to want to take a vacation for Christmas? The Kranks neighbors are annoying busy bodies especially Dan Ackroyds character. I like Tim Allen's Santa movies so I thought this might be good,Wrong. The only thing worth a star was Allen's character giving up his vacation for a struggling neighbor.

Kristmas With the Chranks.......2007-02-27

What's with the review from December 29, 2006? Is this guy a newspaper reporter? Is this the style of reviewing movies now, the newspaper headline format?

Ok, I'll try one: "Loose lips sink ships"

No, wait: "Jamie Lee Curtis' best since Halloween"

Hmmm....nahhh. How 'bout: "Snow is fun. Eat cookies during Christmas"

Perfect!

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Christmas with the Kranks

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A hilarious family comedy! Subtitled in English, French, Chinese, Thai. Wide and full screen.

Christmas with the Kranks (UMD Mini for PSP)

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Starring: Patrick Breen , Jake Busey , Jamie Lee Curtis , Elizabeth Franz , and Felicity Huffman
Director: Joe Roth
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Starring: Tim Allen , Jamie Lee Curtis , Dan Aykroyd , M. Emmet Walsh , and Elizabeth Franz
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CHRISTMAS WITH THE KRANKS: When their only daughter Blair leaves the family nest, Luther and Nora Krank (Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis) decide to book an island cruise to beat the yuletide blues and just skip the holidays. But their decision to boycott tradition has the whole neighborhood in an uproar, and when Blair calls on Christmas Eve to announce a surprise visit with her new fiancée, the Kranks have just twelve hours to perform a miracle and pull themselves and their neighbors together to throw the best celebration ever! With fast-paced energy and support from Dan Aykroyd, Cheech Marin, Jake Busey and M. Emmet Walsh, this hilarious adaptation of John Grisham's best-selling novel, "Skipping Christmas" has become "an instant family classic!" (Gorman Woodfin, CBN)

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