Friday, November 21, 2008

Four Christmases - His father, her mother, his mother and her father all in one day.

Christmas came early to the citizens of Boston who scored passes to the screening of Four Christmases.
We arrived 30 minutes early for the screening of Four Christmases starring Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon at the Loews Theater on Tremont Street in Boston only to be shuffled up an escalator and entered into what seemed like a never-ending line.
The passes didn’t promise we’d get seats, but they did promise that the theater would have a sold out screening.
Standing in line for all that time was definitely worth it. Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon never seem to disappoint at the box office, even if Vince Vaughn always seems to play the same character personality. You know the quick-witted, sarcastic type. But since I find him hilarious it’s always a great movie!

I am not going to reveal any crazy movie spoilers, just a quick synopsis of the movie and plot.
The one liners that busted out of this movie are classic! Reese and Vince play Kate and Brad, a fun-loving couple from San Francisco who have been dating for three years and for the past three years have avoided attending holiday family engagements like the plague. Each year they come up with elaborate excuses as to why they cannot attend Christmas this year, most of which the lies involve them doing charity work on islands in the South Pacific.
This Christmas, however they find their plans to Fiji postponed a day due to crazy fog that has rolled into the San Fran Bay area. A reporter for the local television station interviews them at the airport and their families spot them on TV; immediately causing their cells to blow up and obligations to attend all four family holidays this year.
Both Kate and Brad come from dysfunctional, divorced families and have quite a few skeletons in their closets. From Brad’s real name being Orlando (for the city he was conceived in) to Kate’s “coodie” days and her former BFF being a lesbian named Jo.
Classify this as a “chick flick”? No. The language and one-liners are enough to keep the guys entertained and the storyline between Kate and Brad is a lot more common for the ladies to appreciate. My cheeks hurt so badly after the moving from laughing so hard.

Four Christmases comes to a theater near you on November 26, 2008.

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