Four Christmases (movie)

This movie was interesting to me because I was, somehow, able to see both sides. At once it demonizes family and demands that everyone have kids. I was able to agree, in the beginning, with the main couple who decry family and vacation obligations. Not because I don't like my family, but because they didn't really like theirs (and you get to see why!). Instead, they want to vacation on their vacation. They seem like a well adjusted, happy couple and really good together, so why not?

Because one of them is played by Vince Vaughn, so you know it can't last. Vince annoyed me more in this movie than he ever has before. There was to much screaming. Reese Witherspoon annoyed me more than she has before as well, come to think of it, but she's never been as obnoxious as Vince and couldn't match him here either.

The opposite position of this couple is that they should go to Christmas with their families. Those two are being rather selfish, lying to their families, but this is pretty normal for them. They are rather self-absorbed. And strangely easy to set off; pissed they didn't know something about the other when they already knew they knew nothing of their pasts. It's hard to believe such people could have ever been a successful couple.

The movie is all about getting to see why these two don't usually visit their families. But considering that they live in the same blessed city as their families, I don't see why their parents didn't visit them once in three years either.

That is the big problem with this movie. If you think about it for more than a few minutes, you realize that it falls apart. How in the world could these two have been happy for three years together? Why is anyone mad when nobody makes an effort? (Ok, maybe that's realistic, but you would think their parents would visit them sometime, right? They are minutes away...) How did they do so much in one day!?

That being said, it wasn't nearly as corny as I expected it to be; better than most Christmas movies; "decent".