This movie is a feel good movie with some great laughs. Don't have super high expectations and you will enjoy. The end is very touching.

This movie was just boring. The first time watching it, I was fast-forwarding through it just to get somewhere. I'm giving it alittle more than 1 star though, because there were a few funny moments. It's a shame, it seemed like it could have been really cute.

This is a great fun to watch Christmas comedy with a heatwarming ending.
My family enjoys watching it 2 or 3 times every Christmas Season.

Ok, so I was searching for some movies to buy for my grandpa, and came across this one. I didn't buy it, but I saw it on T.V.

This movie is SO unrealistic. Everyone in the Kranks' neighborhood is upset that they aren't going to celebrate Christmas. That's the jist of it, but what about Jewish people or those who celebrate Kwanzaa? The plot is just so dumb. It's an unbearable movie.

I've never hated anything more in my life than this film. It is a blasphemy to call it a real movie. Whoever wrote this movie, Jesus most definately did not die for your sins. Satan himself endorsed this God-awful abortion of a film. I just burned my hand on a 450 degree oven and it felt better then watching Tim Allen make a complete mockery of the film industry. If you buy and/or watch this movie, you are supporting AIDS,terrorism, and the anarchy of all governments...and you hate children too.Enjoy:)

I am in the UK but my father lives in Virginia, USA. So I ordered 2 DVD's for him from the Amazon USA site. The DVDs arrived promptly at his place and he said he only had time to watch "Christmas with the Kranks" with they thought was hysterically funny.

This is a funny Christmas movie which I enjoyed. Tim Allen and Jamie Curtis were fun to watch along with Dan Aykroyd.

I loved the book "Skipping Christmas" by John Grisham so much that I read it two Christmas's in a row. I was really excited when I heard they were making it into a movie. All I can say is, I hope somebody from the movie apologized to John Grisham. Other than the fact that in both the movie and the book, the couple decided to skip Christmas until they found out their daughter was coming home after all, there was nothing in common. The personalities of the couple in the book were completely different than the zany (translate: painfully tiresome and completely obnoxious) Kranks in the movie. READ THE BOOK! It is excellent and such a pleasant surprise from John Grisham. Just try really hard not to picture Jamie Lee Curtis and Tim Allen when you read it.

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Christmas with the Kranks was great. Giving you in all the elements that can put you in the Christmas spirit. Jamie was great. Even Tim, who I am not a big fan of, was really funny. I thought the Botox scene was classic! It is now a holiday tradition at my house.

I saw the trailer for `Christmas with the Kranks' and immediately thought `stupid' but a few weeks ago my wife insisted that we watch it. I think `stupid' she thinks `could be funny.'

Go figure.

So we sit down to watch this fiasco and guess what...she converts.

There's really only so much that can be said about the mess that is `Christmas with the Kranks.' Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis are the worst they've ever been, which is still leagues ahead of Dan Aykroyd and the plot is just one of the worst I've had to endure. The gags are redundant and barely giggle worthy (except maybe the tanning scene, but that alone does not make this movie remotely watchable) and the whole `sentimental-heartwarming' scene at the end seems out of place even if it is (cough) sweet.

First let's review the plot. Luther and Nora Krank love Christmas. In fact they are the center of Christmas in their town. Then their daughter Blair joins the Peace Corp and informs mom and dad that she will not be home for Christmas. Luther then decides that this would be a good time for him to take Nora on a cruise, skipping Christmas altogether and enjoying some alone time. Little did he realize that skipping Christmas was `against the law' in his town. Yes, the villagers revolt and protest the Krank's personal decision which is not funny, it's stupid, because if anyone reacted to any of my decisions with such ridiculous animosity I would have them beaten.

Oh yeah, then Blair calls. She's coming home for Christmas after all (didn't she JUST leave) and she's getting married (she known him, what, three days) and wants her new fiancé to experience a Krank Christmas. So now, after burning every bridge in the neighborhood, Luther and Nora now have to gather all their `ex-friends' together for help in throwing the best Christmas party they've ever thrown.

The acting is just as atrocious as the plot. Allen and Curtis are obviously hamming it up because they have to. They realized shortly after filming that this film was a drag and so they decided to have fun with their mistake. I can respect that, but they are still very unfunny. Aykroyd is a mess. Walsh is the only `decent' actor here, playing his Scrooge type character well, and the last scene with him and Luther is touching even if it is misplaced.

It's safe to say that I loathed this film. In fact I'm thinking of skipping Christmas every year...oh wait...I already do...now what do you have to say about that (as I hide from angry mod with pitchforks).

Christmas With The Kranks is high on my list of WORST holiday movies. It is unfunny and filled with unpleasant people. So what if a family decides to go on a cruise instead of going over the top in celebrating Christmas? I started out rooting for Luther Krank because his neighbors were so profoundly obnoxious and interfering! Then he too becomes a miserable person...

Finally once the Kranks decide to conform and hold Christmas after all, the neighbors are helpful and sweet! I'm amazed at how many people are calling this movie sweet and wholesome. I found it unfunny and actually rather unsettling. Heaven forbid a non-Christian ever move onto THAT block!

Go watch A Christmas Story instead!

Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis play the Kranks. When their daughter runs off to join the Peace Corp, Tim decides they should take Christmas off and go to the tropics. This means no spending money on gifts or anything else including a Christmas tree or Police calendar. The neighborhood and police aren't at all pleased as they love the annual Krank Christmas party, decorations, and donations. Just when the Kranks finally think they will get out of town without being tarred and feathered their daughter calls out of the blue to let them know she will be home for Christmas. What ensues is pure magic that should give you a little Christmas glow. The DVD is good quality with no extras.

I thought that the ridiculous parts of this movie were very funny, but the parts which bordered on reality--the daughter suddenly arriving home as a "surprise" (thanks dear)which then causes the mother to throw the husband and his ideas over the boards and out the window, is rather depressing. I understand the concept of loving our children, but when they show up out of the blue, and we must decide whether to honour the needs/wants of our spouse or those of our children, all too often we allow our children to replace our spouses as our best friends. We did not marry our children; they were thrust upon us by genetics. We take care of them until they are able to fly by themselves, but once they are older--like Blair, who now is old enough to have a fiance (read "adult")--we must address the task of restoring our spousal relationships to their proper position of paramount importance. This movie fails miserably at this task, and so I find it to be depressing. Yes, the movie is a comedy, but this aspect of the comedy hits too close to home within a society where marital relationships have become grossly devalued. I believe a sillier impetus for the Kranks missing their vacation would have gone a long way in making this movie funnier. Ziggel & Egbert

Based on John Grisham's novel, "Skipping Christmas", (which I thoroughly enjoyed) "Christmas with Kranks" is about a couple played by Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis that decide not to get bogged down with all the financial traps and traditions of the season and take one year off from the Christmas festivities and go on a cruise. Main reason-their daughter has gone into the Peace Corps and won't be home for Christmas.

However, busy-body neighbours like Dan Ackroyd and M.Emmet Walsh make Skipping Christmas impossible!! If I had neighbours like this I'd sell my house very quickly!!! A bit over the top with how offended they are that the Kranks aren't celebrating Christmas, or putting their Frosty on the roof like the rest of the block. These people need a life!! But I think the ridiculousness of the plot was what John Grisham was going for in the first place. He shows us how we are sometimes so over-committed and overwhelmed at Christmas with the wrong things-material things.

By the end of this movie, things turn from slap-stick to more serious. The Kranks daughter DOES end up home for Christmas and the Kranks end up scrambling to decorate and put their annual Christmas party together in a matter of hours. But perhaps the most touching part is when Luther Krank (Tim Allen) gives his tickets for the cruise to his neighbour across the street who constantly bugged and made fun of him. His wife is dying of cancer and he gives Walt (M.Emmet Walsh) the tickets so that they can spend one last wonderful Christmas together on a cruise.

I think that ending redeems this movie but do try to read the book. I did like it better than the movie, not as much slap-stick.

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.

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!!!

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

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.

The movie itself is fine, however inside the box that contains the DVD it is broke and doesn't hold the movie in place. Which means the movie was bounced around during shipping. I haven't watched the whole thing but it doesn't appear to be damaged.

You can't lose with Tim Allen, Dan Akroyd, and Jamie Lee Curtis as a main characters. This is a very entertaining Christmas movie. I think we all have thought it would be nice to skip the gift giving and party throwing during the holidays, this movie takes a humurous look at what could happen and gives us all something to think about.

There are some funny moments in the movie, like when Mrs. Krank chases her holiday ham across the parking lot, or when Tim Allen's ill advised botox treatment affects his eating ability.

But this film is sunk by a silly premise. The point of the movie is that the Krank's want to skip Christmas completely when they learn that their daughter will not be home for the holiday (they also want to save money and take a cruise). The neighbors rebel because the Kranks always have the best Christmas party and they are the only ones on the street who have not properly decorated their home in line with the way the others have.

But this is stupid and unrealistic. Who has the right to complain and kvetch over how a person does or does not want to celebrate a holiday? Who cares, anyway? Despite some genuinely funny moments from Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis, these moments cannot save the film.

I watched CHRISTMAS WITH THE KRANKS this afternoon. So-so. It had its moments, but it never really found a rhythm...or a style. It tried for slapstick, farce, sentiment, message, etc., and never landed squarely on any one of them. Tim Allen is average and mostly believable, and Jamie Lee Curtis has been better in other things (like A FISH CALLED WANDA). But there was a nice supporting cast, including old timers like Austin Pendleton and Tom Poston. Nice to see them.

Roger Ebert and Leonard Maltin hated it. Roger gave it one star and said it wasn't funny, anywhere, ever. Leonard rated it BOMB. Ebert did point out one thing I thought was rather odd, that the couple's daughter has been gone in the Peace Corps for only a few weeks when she flies home for Christmas with her boyfriend. I mean, the movie opens at an airport the Sunday after Thanksgiving. A point is made of that date. Then when she phones from the Miami airport saying she's flying home on Christmas Eve, no one thinks anything of it. I didn't realize the Peace Corps was such an open thing that you could pick up and fly home scant weeks after you got there.

If you want slapstick humor in a Christmas movie, NATIONAL LAMPOON'S CHRISTMAS VACATION is better. If you want schmaltz, neither one is satisfying. If you want true sentiment and charm, go back to when they really knew how to make good movies. Try MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET. Now there's a four-star winner!

Christmas with the Kranks was bombarded with way to many bad reviews I didn't get to see it until a few weeks ago. I was pretty much surprised to see those reviewers didn't actually gave this movie a chance to bloom. Maybe perhaps, they had read the book this movie was loosely base on. My family and I, however, pretty much enjoy this movie and would actually watch it again sometimes in the future. The cast interconnected with each other and the plots were simple and comical.

Luther Krank (Tim Allen) and Nora Krank (Jamie Lee Curtis) took a large bold step of the year to not celebrate X-mas for that year, since their only daughter went off to join the peace corps and after finding out their X-mas yearly are pretty much costly. Luther decided to bring his wife to go relaxing with him by taking a cruise. Neighbors and friends were pretty much appauled by this decision and Vic Frohmeyer (Dan Aykroyd) actually try to conviced them to celebrate X-Mas once more.

Everything goes well for the Kranks, except that Nora was about to gave into peer pressure, when their daughter, Blair (Julie Gonzalo), called in to dropped the news on them that she's coming home for X-Mas with the guy she loves. Hell broke loose and they tried doing last minute shopping and last minute decoration, alone. but the community fall in from shunning the Kranks and helped them create their famous X-Mas Party while Blair in on her way home thinking everything is ready for her and her guy.

This is totally in my light watch movie list for the sake of laugh and enjoyment of watching it.

Its embarrassing to watch this (so-called) movie.
Its embarrassing to review this THING because
people will know that I watched (suffered) it.

If you're the type who likes nonsensical garbage
like friends or the roseanne show then you'll probably
like this travesty.

Usually I'd give a movie like this away
but I don't think I want to screw anyone
else around.

SO!

Into the trash can it goes....

I thought this would be a silly, kinda dumb, but cute little movie with a few laughs and some Christmas fun. I was wrong. Right off the bat, Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis are totally unbelievable as a couple. And, while I can usually stand him pretty well, and I usually like her -- they just did not work in this movie. Her acting is especially poor. While I'd say that is the film's first flaw -- it is only one of many. The movie is just not good. I love movies. It's very rare that I will say this about a movie -- but I hated it. If you want to see a funny Christmas movie, I'd suggest "Scrooged" with Billy Murray or "Elf." Christmas With the Kranks is easily in the top 3 worst movies I have ever seen. Do not buy or rent this movie.

I bought this movie for my wife. She always wants to see Christmas movies this time of year and I get somewhat tired of seeing the same ones over and over. Plenty of reviews to see what the story is all about so I'll just jump into my take on it. If I had neighbors that stuck their noses into my life to that extent I would think I was in hell. My wife, on the other hand, thought it was funny. So it's one for "funny", one for "extremely irritating". The whole idea that taking a cruise at Christmas time is some sort of rejection of Christmas was another point of irritaion. Christmas is wherever you are, isn't it? I lightened up after it was half over and accepted the movie for whatever it was. Seemed to get better near the end of the movie but it was probably due to them caving in to their neighbors expectations. Then there was acceptance and neighborly love in the air. The message here seems to be that life will be better if you would just comform. I almost gave this movie 3 stars but I decided a Christmas movie shouldn't be irritating. Keep in mind that my wife really liked it. If you're tired of seeing all the better Christmas movies, give this one a chance.

Based on the John Grisham's "Skipping Christmas", Christmas with the Kranks is a funny, sweet and heartwarming comedy. The chemistry between Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis is incredible. And, Jamie Lee has the guts to appear in a bikini, letting it all hang out. A wonderful film that re-affirms the holiday season. Highly recommended.

Let me start by saying I LOVE Christmas!!! I'm one of the people who puts thousands of lights up. I love Christmas music and of course Christmas movies, the best being Christmas Vacation with Elf coming in a close second. Tim Allen's Santa Clause movies are also pretty good as are the old classics. I was really hoping Christmas with the Kranks would be another great movie but it was pretty much a let down. It was kind of like a cheap rip off of Christmas vacation in a couple of ways. There are definitely better movies to buy.

'Christmas with the Kranks' presents the holiday season with a common ambivalence. Depending on one's take of Christmas, the season will be a festive celebration, a religious hallmark filled with meaning, or an ordeal filled with nauseating depression. (For most of us, it is a combination of all three.) Trying to cope with the forced pleasantries and crass materialism of a season saturated with meaning is a real struggle. So it is with Nora and Luther Krank (Jamie Lee Curtis and Tim Allen). As empty-nesters they face a particular vacuum when their daughter leaves for the Peace Corps and leave all reason for them to celebrate behind. Their solution? Skip the expense of the holiday trimmings and go for a cruise starting Christmas day. Cynically and brazenly, their neighbors and co-workers won't stand for it. Like the holiday police, they encroach the Krank's personal space as if they were criminals in the Great Holiday Conspiracy. Motives seem mixed. As they start, they save Christmas spending for their cruise, but, later refuse even the free holiday trimmings of Christmas carolers. What gives? Luther says, "It's the principle of the thing...Not even Nick Frohmeyer (M. Emmitt Walsh) can stop us." So it's keeping up with the Joneses, then--or in this case the Krank's--and their reputation with the rest of the neighbors. Included are prankster kids who launch a "Free Frosty" campaign for the coveted Krank roof decoration.

'Christmas with the Kranks' really has a frosty look at the holiday season--one that notably warms up as the movie goes on. One wonders why the Kranks couldn't take a few simple steps to make their Christmas plans easier; one that would combine purposes and take needed short-cuts to their sanity. But, that, of course, would delete a lot of the comedy. And, there are some big laughs to be had from this comedy flick. The previews give us the impression that '...The Kranks' would deliver a sack full of holiday laughs, but at least we get a quality stocking stuffer. It seems to at least have some heart--even if it does borrow (or steal) some important elements from great Christmas classics, notably 'The Grinch Who Stole Christmas,' 'Scrooge,' and 'A Charlie Brown Christmas'. For the latter, there's the scrawny tree bit. Anyway, for all its redeeming qualities, 'Christmas with the Kranks' presents an inconsistent and jaundiced holiday view that has the effect of tainted eggnog: It is sweet but leaves a bitter aftertaste.

I thought the movie was okay, it was entertaining, my kids loved it. I thought it could have been a better.

Terrificly funny Christmas time movie'
with very good cast. Much better than
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
but I still like a Christmas story a
wee bit better. See it with the family!

In the season of greed, forced affability and smarmy sentimentality, skip patronizing, obscene junk like CHRISTMAS WITH THE KRANKS and experience a bold, gorgeous, DVD concert that does not flinch from authentic spirituality like MESSIAH (Koch). For those humbuggers who despise any element of what Christmas is all about, there's always a public domain version of the subversive and surreal SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS. I found mine at K-Mart for two bucks.)

I have almost every Christmas movie put out on dvd and I honestly would rank this in my top ten favorite Christmas movies of all time now. It's just different from all the others thats what makes it great. It a great story line! There are a million Nutcrackers and Christmas Carols and don't get me wrong I enjoy them all but this movie is sort of a breath of fresh air for Christmas movies. If you enjoy Christmas and like to laugh....then there is no reason you shouldn't enjoy this movie!

It was sweet, sentimental at the end and funny in the beginning (and middle). I love these two actors.