With Christmas Day again on its way, Awfully Good Movies is leaving a plate of rum ham out for Santa and watching Danny DeVito face off against his new neighbor Matthew Broderick in the 2006 “family” “comedy” Deck the Halls!
While It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia has made Mr. DeVito a late career icon with the younger generations the past 17 years, the same can’t be said for the movie that came out the same year as Frank Reynolds’ first season on the show. Here, he plays yet another sleazy salesman type who moves into a Massachusetts suburb around December time with his inexplicably hot/young wife Kristin Chenoweth and their daughters, and attempts to do something more profound with his life by dressing his home up in enough Christmas lights to get his home seen from space by a Google Earth knockoff website. (And no, that technically isn’t possible in real life, nor is it something than any human being would want to do with their precious life.)
Little does DeVito know that the local eye doctor across the street (Matthew Broderick) sees a threat to his reputation as the town’s “Christmas Guy”, thus igniting a “light fight” of sorts between the two men. It should be a Christmas Vacation style parody of holiday consumerism and dysfunctional families, but the final product feels more like an American sitcom adaptation of The Banshees of Inisherin–and I don’t mean that as a compliment! Not only do the two men get increasingly ridiculous with their family feud, but the weirdly adult humor in this PG movie is directed with all the comedic grace of a stroke victim getting back up to use the toilet, with The Trashman and Ferris Bueller looking appropriately sad all the way through.
This episode of Awfully Good is written, narrated, and edited by Jesse Shade. Have you seen Deck the Halls? Is it as awful as Jesse says? Let us know in the comments!
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22 Comments
This movie ain't streaming on Disney+, but it IS free to watch on YouTube.
I thought it was a good
Christmas movie. CB
I remember saw this movie in theaters when I was 9 and I hate it but I honestly do like Danny DeVito and Matthew broadrick
Jesse you are so fucking funny. Never stop doing these.
I always feel the roles should have been reversed.
What a horrible holiday turkey.
9:53 no, but I am 😂
7:47 I swear that I look for this Rocky clip every Christmas movie review or whatever that mentions a reindeer
12:54 dude, how were you able to make that connection, it is brilliant, I don't know how I didn't see that before!
This and kranks are bad good must watch during Xmas
Please please PLEASE, can you do some of the “classics” like Showgirls or The Room!?!
It’s not the holidays. It’s merry Christmas.
If buddy quits every job how does he get money for the house or the lights? Unemployment?
Watched this for the first time in Christmas Eve here in the UK and honestly it was garbage. The critics were right
I just saw 15 seasons of Sunny in Philadelphia in two months. Hilarious
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" Did you bang my wife? Did you bang my whore wife? Does anyone here have any illegitemate children with my WHORE wife that i should know about?!! "
Did I miss the beginning of the video? It starts with the word “however”
oh hell no this movie is set in my state?
Thanks for another great year of videos Jesse, Happy Holidays.
Should Tubi add Deck the Halls, it will be a welcome addition over the Xmas selections now.
Christmas with the Kranks and this are without two of the worst christmas movies ever made.
Holy hell, who did the sound editing here? And what's with the repeat beginning?
You guys are slipping, big time!
….better be careful saying trans parents may have problems…..
I haven't heard if this movie