Father Christmas Is Back

​This is a bad movie I mostly enjoyed. It has an impressive cast – Kelsey Grammar, Elizabeth Hurley, John Cleese, to name a few – and a great premise. Four daughters, who don’t particularly like each other, reunite for Christmas at their family home where their long-estranged father shows up unannounced. Oh, and their last name is Christmas.
 
There are some fun jokes and scenes in the film, but most happen in the first half and then the last half runs dry. The acting is okay for the most part, although the main sister, Caroline, is incredibly annoying and kept making this strange squeaking noise.
 
The storyline does lose itself slightly along the way. What starts out as four very different sisters trying to get along and then being disturbed by the man that abandoned them, turns into three different twists and subplots in the last twenty minutes. It is quite overwhelming, and very disjointed. Also, all the twists cause a lot of drama that is solved extremely quickly, mostly because everyone overreacted in the first place.
 
This is a classic family disaster Christmas film. It has a good level of cheesiness, and the ending is heart-warming. It’s a great terrible Christmas film that’s a bit of fun to watch on the run up to the big day.