Deck the Halls
by John Whitesell
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Actor: Alia Shawkat, Danny DeVito, Kristin Chenoweth, Kristin Davis, Matthew BroderickDirector: John Whitesell
Brand: TCFHE
Producer: John Whitesell
Producer: Arnon Milchan
Producer: Jeremiah Samuels
Producer: Michael Costigan
Writer: Chris Ord
Writer: Don Rhymer
Writer: Matt Corman
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 93 minutes
Published: 2007-11-01
DVD Release Date: 2007-11-06
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of Deck the Halls
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Summary: 5 Stars
I used to love Christmas movies like MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET and/or IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, but as I grow older, I find them old fashioned and predictable. Instead I now like DECK THE HALLS, which tells the story of a man obsessed with tradition, a man whose obsession with tradition threatens to destroy his family. Such a man is Steve Finch, played by Matthew Broderick as an unhealthy shell of a man. He's like a decrepit and deserted old house from whence the tenants have long since fled. Nowhere in his eyes can you see the impudent spirit we loved him for in such vehicles as TORCH SONG TRILOGY or FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF. Was it his long, tortured marriage to fellow teen stay Sarah Jessica Parker that has given Matthew Broderick that sallow, jaundiced countenance?
If only Nathaniel Hawthorne was still alive he could have done the world a service by putting the noble ruin of the middle aged Broderick to good use, perhaps remembering his erstwhile glories as a star. With his extensive stage background, and his father's fame too, he probably never envisioned a day when he would have to co-star opposite the tiny terror, Danny De Vito, and that the script would show Steve Finch sinking lower than the lowest depravities conjured up in the mind of Buddy Hall, the car salesman De Vito plays here. My mother used to say, any movie with car salesmen in it has got to be bad, but I wish she were with us today (for many reasons, but among them is the chance to see a five star movie pitting a car salesman against an optometrist). The two girls who plays De Vito's teenage twins do a heckuva job playing twins. Every year since 2006 I watch them more closely, trying to detect the difference between them. Guests have sworn on the Bible that the girls actually are twins, but it's hard to believe that in this day and age of modern photoshop, any filmmaker would cast real twins when disparate ones would do. Think of the ultimate twins movie in which De Vito himself played the twin of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Summary of Deck the Halls
Matthew Broderick and Danny DeVito are hilarious as two neighbors trying to put the "win" in "winter" in one of the year's funniest comedies! Determined to unseat Steve Finch's (Broderick) reign as the town's holiday season king, Buddy Hall (DeVito) plasters his house with so many decorative lights that it'll be visible from space! When their wives (Kristin Davis and Kristin Chenoweth) bond, and their kids follow suit, the two men only escalate their rivalry and their decorating. It's anybody's guess whether the holidays will wind up jolly or jostled in this wild and woolly laugh-fest that the whole family will love!Similar DVD Movies
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