A dysfunctional family faces the challenges of the festive season in this chaotic, eggnog-nostalgic comedy
As welcome as animal rights activists at a Boxing Day hunt, here comes the holiday season’s dysfunctional-family-Christmas-get-together movie. This one is a blandly watchable bit of festive-fluff Britcom from writer-director James Dearden following the familiar template of a clan gathering on Christmas Eve, this time in the English countryside. It’s tonally chaotic, mixing eggnog-nostalgic light comedy – is Dad man enough to give Gobbles the turkey the chop? Has the bloody frost got the brussels? – with some drama as flimsy as wrapping paper.
Gemma Whelan (Game of Thrones) is saddled with the cliched role of mum Miranda, who has recently inherited the family’s country pile. Her plan is to turn the crumbling house into a B&B and organic veg business with her countryside-hating husband Dan (Julian Ovenden). First, they have to make...
As welcome as animal rights activists at a Boxing Day hunt, here comes the holiday season’s dysfunctional-family-Christmas-get-together movie. This one is a blandly watchable bit of festive-fluff Britcom from writer-director James Dearden following the familiar template of a clan gathering on Christmas Eve, this time in the English countryside. It’s tonally chaotic, mixing eggnog-nostalgic light comedy – is Dad man enough to give Gobbles the turkey the chop? Has the bloody frost got the brussels? – with some drama as flimsy as wrapping paper.
Gemma Whelan (Game of Thrones) is saddled with the cliched role of mum Miranda, who has recently inherited the family’s country pile. Her plan is to turn the crumbling house into a B&B and organic veg business with her countryside-hating husband Dan (Julian Ovenden). First, they have to make...
- 11/28/2018
- by Cath Clarke
- The Guardian - Film News
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