Good neighbours can be hard to come by and when the flighty Buddy Hall (Danny Devito) moves in across the street from the conservative Dr. Steve Finch (Matthew Broderick), it quickly becomes apparent that the two men are complete opposites. While Finch methodically plans out every minute of the coming Christmas season for his family, Buddy craves freshness and excitement and is seized by an impulsive desire to decorate his house so brightly that it can be seen from space. While the men's wives Kelly (Kristin Davis) and Tia (Kristin Chenoweth) and their children revel in one another's differences and form solid friendships, a rivalry of personalities and Christmas spirit ensues between the two men that will wind up testing the patience and love of every member of both families. This is fun, comical holiday entertainment for the entire family ages 9 and older. --Tami Horiuchi

Throughout my life I have often wondered if their is life after death... After watching this load of garbage, I am now asking is their life before death.

Quite possibly the worst film. Ever.


Baz C (The dad's first "review")

Ok, so I watched this the other night when it was on Sky, and then watched it every day after when it was on Sky, and I have just bought it on dvd just in time for Christmast.

I like this film, it's stupid, but it's fun. Sure it doesn't have enough laughs, but I found it watchable and enjoyable.

Give it a go.

This again is a nice family Christmas movie which is good clean fun, which I did enjoy. It was a simple story that had some really funny moments and some adult humour in it. The acting was ok the one liners and some scenes you could see coming mile off but it doesn't matter it was a very watchable Christmas movie. This cheap to buy now and worth every penny knowing you will only watch it at Christmas. If you don't fancy watching it for the Christmas jokes etc watch it for the twin sisters that are in the movie very very pretty!!!

was better than the reviews online worth a viewing lots of belly laughs without the usual stupid xmas over ratings.100% better than bad santa and well worth watching wont spoil with the plot just buy and enjoy.

i bought quite a few christmas dvds recently and had been looking forward to this one... i was very disappointed. i watch christmas films to get more into the spirit of the season, this film did nothing to help! danny devitos daughters looked like low class strippers and mathew brodericks acting was particularly wooden (more so than usual!)
If you want to watch a nice christmassy film i would recommend christmas with the kranks or national lampoons christmas vacation instead of this waste of time!