The poster for Four Christmases features the stars, Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn, bound up in ribbon. You wish that you were bound up yourself to help avoid seeing this movie.

It's about a couple, living in sin, not married, because they can do what Sally said, "Make love on the kitchen floor," whenever they want. What they want is to avoid their relatives for Christmas by jetting out to Fiji. Unfortunately, not all goes according to plan. They end up having to go to all their parents' house to visit for the day.

The parents are each divorced, which means that the couple doesn't want to get married because they'll just end up as their parents. Of course, with Christmas they get a warm welcome and realize perhaps being just a couple isn't so worth it. The movie re-establishes traditional family values of marriage and kids as the end all be all of a loving relationship. Who cares? You knew that was coming. The stories were never funny enough. There was plenty of star power. In fact I was pleasantly surprised to see the boy named Sue show up as a reunion for the Swingers dudes.

Eh! I just didn't find this funny or worth it at all.

2 of 5 stars.

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