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Thinking I was about to get into a fun Christmas movie with my wife and kids we instead got sucked into this weak tale of a dysfunctional family that lied to find out just how dysfunctional they are... and the ending was terrible. I watch a Christmas movie for laughs and fun, not to be depressed and to top it all off... it wasn't even about Christmas. It was centered around thanksgiving. The plot was about a lie by what seemed like a happy couple about getting a divorce only to end up preparing to get a divorce. The kids characters were terrible as well. One of the kids discovers she's not her mother's daughter, as a grown woman? She's supposed to become a preacher, but can't forgive them for this lie. The republican kid who plans to run for office... congress in fact, yet never seems to have had a job acts like he's never even kissed a woman before, much less date his high school crush whom he can't even talk to... again, as a grown man? Master P's son plays the free spirit who's found himself, yet at the end continues searching... finally, the little light skinned daughter is in a relationship with an older, married white man and she doesn't even know how many kids he has. This was a -5 on a scale of 1 - 10

The film was described as a comedy. Whilst the acoholic womanising uncle does have a few moments the whole film is created on a lie about a pending break up to entice the now adult siblings to reunite in harmony. Watching this could turn a man to drink due to the totally depressing conclusion that in fact the parents should really be getting divorced due to the Web of lies and deceppsion the parent's had created to keep the family together. Yes you guessed it a cheating albeit likeable cad of a father who by the grace of God had a wife willing to sacrifice herself to keep the family together. One of the kids is not the mothers but a totally different woman. Who turns up as bold as brass and braisenly drops this bombshell for all to view. What looks like a sweet couple simply trying to have their old family back as a functioning unit simply find out that the entire family has somehow lost all their values or have become broken shells as adults. All I can say is the family need a he'll of allot of therapy to bring them together in one piece....