Four Christmases (2008)

Four Christmases turns ten this year and there is a reason that it hasn't become a Christmas classic, it's not very good. The story of a couple (Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon) who for years have meticulously avoided spending Christmas with their four divorced parents, but weather conditions cancel their flight to Fiji so they might as well get the ritual over with. This movie maybe could have been fun, but for the most part it is not. A couple of Vince Vaughn's line readings made me laugh, but over all the humor is surprisingly gross and unfunny. This film starts with Vaughn and Witherspoon engaged in pre intercourse role play, which has to be a first for a Christmas movie outside of porn. Also these characters and their families are all supposed to live in and around San Francisco, but most of them are very much 'red state' people and do not fit with their supposed surroundings. *1/2