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| DECK THE HALLS (2006) - PG
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by Lew Irwin
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 There are few Christmas cheers from the critics for Deck the Halls. "A leaden slice of fruitcake, with about as much nutritional value, it's not worth working up a good hate over," grumbles Roger Moore in the Orlando Sentinel. Stephen Hunter in the Washington Post suggests that the movie ought to have been called Dreck the Halls, remarking, "I literally didn't count a single laugh in the whole aimless schlep." Michael Sragow in the Baltimore Sun refers to it as "this pitiful farce." Richard Roeper was enlisted by the Chicago Sun-Times to review the movie in place of the recuperating Roger Ebert. He writes: "Compared to the honest hard labor performed by tens of millions of Americans every day, a film critic's job is like a winning lottery ticket. But there IS work involved, and it can be painful -- and the next time someone tells me I have the best job in the world, I'm going to grab them by the ear, fourth-grade-teacher-in-1966-style, and drag them to see Deck the Halls." In the first paragraph of his review, he writes: "You cannot believe how excruciatingly awful this movie is. It is bad in a way that will cause unfortunate viewers to huddle in the lobby afterward, hugging in small groups, consoling one another with the knowledge that it's over, it's over -- thank God, it's over." |
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