A Christmas Too Many Review

Review of Marry Christmas (2024) by screenqueeen: 👎 1/5

Part of December's Terrible Christmas Movie Challenge

This movie has flattered me on several tiers. The director manages to pull in some quite talented people for this title. However the actors are used horribly, each ultimately churning out a one-dimensional performance.

The inclusion of a "tongue-in-cheek" family mobster was somehow jarring to me, but it set the course for lines delivered later on that would have baffled a brain that was not already frozen in disbelief. The movie is centered around Christmas dinner, with guests arriving or about to arrive, so in theory the kookier the characters the better. But while the characters chosen and the things they are chosen to say and do are kooky (at the least), better characters they do not make.

It almost seems that if Tommy Wiseau were to take a crack at a Christmas comedy, this would be very close to what we would have gotten. At multiple points in this movie, I was so inclined to convince myself that no one could have written this. The script was in fact a randomized print-out from a computer algorithm that analyzed Christmas family comedy movies and created character archetypes, plot points, and dialogue to boot.

In fact, if you ever find yourself watching this, tell yourself every 5 (or less...) lines of dialogue: No one wrote this.