I’m kind of blown away this doesn’t have a thread? I’m not 100% sure yet, but this sure felt like a movie/musical easily good enough to be a Christmas Tradition. I sure as hell plan to wish everyone a Good Afternoon after watching it.
Reviews are middling I guess, but I feel like you’d have to be a miserable Scrooge to find fault with this film.
I’m surprised. The above posts mean that this is already out. I guess when I saw a Christmas themed movie, I thought it would be out around Christmas, not before Thanksgiving.
Didn’t know about this one, but will absolutely watch it with the family (who all love Ryan Reynolds). I’ll probably wait a few weeks to be a little closer to actual Christmas though.
Yeah, I’m mixed on Ferrell. Never found him funny in SNL, but did find him funny in Old School and a few movies. But didn’t find him funny in other movies like Elf, which I still don’t understand the appeal of. It’s such an awkward, weird, unfunny movie.
The wife hates Ferrell and enjoyed this. It was a surprise that it was so good and while I enjoyed all the numbers as they went on I don’t think any were particularly memorable. It’s not like I’m humming View From Here or whatever it was called. But I’m sure it’ll be build into a staple in the coming years.
We saw it over the long Thanksgiving weekend. I liked it well enough, but thought it dragged a bit. Could have been 20 minutes shorter for me. Don’t know that this kind of movie needed to be over 2 hours.
But, when it was funny, it was real funny. And that was a good portion of the time.
My wife watched this, and commented part way through that the songs sounded just like Dear Evan Hansen, and was wondering if it was intentional. And then we looked it up and found out it was the same songwriters!
So given that, I wouldn’t be surprised if they grew on you should you hear them a few more times.