So, the first thing I would like to talk about is the cast. The clichés are just that, but the cast isgood at bringing life to them enough to take you off your guard withlaughter and get you all choked up about celebrating the holiday seasonwith your family. Usher is a college football player with lots of potential — if he can recover from a shoulder injury, and stop taking his pain killers, and get past his mother's death, which seems to be affecting him more than his siblings. To the point where, if I did count how many times I laughed, as a collective they might have given Mo'Nique a run for her money. The youngest of Walter's kids, Evan Jessie T. That's all After 10-months when his wife Grace passed, Walter Danny Glover wants to bring the family together for a Christmas dinner and that may be the last one since he is thinking of selling the house, but has told no one.
On the other hand, families will enjoy it, it will get you in the holiday spirit, and I personally had a good time. He invites his four adult children and their families to spend Christmas together in that house one last time , despite the problems that he knows they have getting along. Smoove, and it is usually throughdialogue. Before we can even go back for seconds, and pack away some leftovers, we get flooded with holiday themed entertainment. The director did improve from his last film, so I feel like he is getting more efficient with filmmaking. Whether you celebrate Thanksgiving, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, Eid, Festivus, the Winter Solstice or any other gathering with loved ones, you're probably familiar with the problem.
It's the first Christmas since the Matriarch of the Meyer's family passed away, and following tradition, the large family gather at the family home to celebrate and be festive. Also, this film is a comedy and a drama. The timing is as good asthat of the best comedies of the Three Stooges or Martin and Lewis. In Atlanta, Georgia, the Meyers family seems to be a nice crew ofpeople to be with around the holidays. Danny Glover was superb as always, as was the rest of the cast. The acting was on point, which is not surprising given the powerhouse cast.
A spiky feel good festive film but a little slow to get going and too many flat and clichéd characters. Oh my God,this is a good cast, and it is the cast that makes this movie so muchbetter than what it should be. Funny and heartwarming, definitely worth seeing. Don't worry, after the holidays it is back to work, school, and hittin' the gym to shred off all that turkey weight. Talbert Baggage Claim , the filmdepicts a family coming together for the holidays soon after theirbeloved matriarch has died.
The dysfunctionalfamily ripping at each other's throats, using profanity at each otherand by the end of the movie, they are all smiling, drinking eggnog elfcum just kidding and singing Kumbaya while looking at a glaringChristmas tree. This type of film has been done so many times before. One thing I have to get off my chest is the character Jasmine, played by Keri Hilson. Because this kind of film is thematically same, but usually screenplay and the comedy parts are derived. The script is so generic and been there done that type of story, even for a holiday themed movie.
There is this innocence yet know it all attitude, mixed in with this cell-phone obsessed culture and it just works. I know what you are thinking, and the answer is yes. Also, this film is a comedy and a drama. I really enjoyed this film and of it matters, found it to be believable in a big budget, top tier acting kind of way. Oh my God, this is a good cast, and it is the cast that makes this movie so much better than what it should be.
It is the latest Christmas film that represents the entire dysfunctional family getting together for Christmas. It's a well played hand. I know I mentioned how this films plotis something a majority of people have seen, especially in theChristmas genre. It's a cross between all the worst parts of The Cosby Show and NationalLampoon's Christmas Vacation while containing none of their virtues. Surely you would laugh aloud in a few scenes.
You will learn that Rachel and Cheryl can't stand each other. One narcissistic ex-basketball player, a control freak, the young up and coming pro football player and one running for congress are just a few. But his grown children day to day problems may come into play. Written and directed by David E. AlmostChristmas plays off like a lot of those television movies on Hallmark,which usually means that their never great. I hope I didn't spoil the movie for anyone, because none of these elements in a Christmas movie are new.
As expected, no family gathering, especially of this magnitude goes without drama, as the family try to be civil to another while respecting the family home and head of the family, Walter Meyer. The drama is a little bland. Smoove is Uncle Lonnie, his typical fast talkingshuckin' and jivin' self as only he can be. Okay, they tried another one when Rachel gets stuck in a window ledge trying to get inside. Well, they tried a funny sight-gag when Lonnie J. Though I kept seeing the Murtaugh household, half expecting a car bursting into the lounge or even Riggs to turn up eating dog biscuits.
On the other hand, families will enjoy it, it will get you in the holiday spirit, and I personally had a good time. Synopsis Walter Meyer Danny Glover is a retired mechanic who lost the love of his life almost a year ago. Walter Meyer Danny Glover is a retired mechanic who lost the love of his life almost a year ago. It's well paced, and nicely shot with a lovely ambiance to it. It's enjoyable, light hearted, entertaining and better than expected.