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Old 11-29-22 | 10:18 AM
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Christmas with the Campbells (2022) S: Brittany Snow, Justin Long, Alex Moffatt

In Theaters and Streaming on AMC+ December 2

Starring Brittany Snow, Justin Long, Alex Moffatt, Julia Duffy, George Wendt & JoAnna Garcia Swisher
Directed by Clare Niederpruem
Written by Vince Vaughn, Dan Lagana, Barbara Kymlicka
Produced by Vince Vaughn, Dan Lagana and Peter Billingsley

The traditional holiday romance movie gets a little more fun this year with a spin from co-writers Vince Vaughn and Dan Lagana. In Christmas With The Campbells, when Jesse gets dumped right before the holidays by her boyfriend Shawn, his parents convince her to still spend Christmas with them, and Shawn’s handsome cousin, while Shawn is away.
Old 11-29-22 | 12:09 PM
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Re: Christmas with the Campbells (2022) S: Brittany Snow, Justin Long, Alex Moffatt

Looks like “Guy Who Just Bought a Boat: The Movie”.
Old 12-29-22 | 01:38 PM
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Re: Christmas with the Campbells (2022) S: Brittany Snow, Justin Long, Alex Moffatt

This was mildly entertaining, but I feel like they should have just gone in a darker direction with it. Like having Long's character not actually be someone anyone knows or Moffatt going ballistic about the mythical tree Long playing a Country-type love interest came off stalkerish regardless.

This is more to Hallmark movies what A Deadly Adoption was to Lifetime movies, but with people being more blunt and sexual.
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Re: Christmas with the Campbells (2022) S: Brittany Snow, Justin Long, Alex Moffatt

This is on Hulu and probably AMC + too.

Alex Moffat was the only funny person in this movie and had no idea what Justin Long was doing with his voice or what accent he was trying to do.

It was ok and maybe if you are a diehard Brittany Snow fan ( A great name to appear in a Xmas movie) then pass.

I guess when I saw Vince Vaughn was one of the producers that probably explained the raunchy humor.

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Old 08-21-23 | 11:31 AM
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Compared to what I was expecting this was a letdown. When I read about this film being a Hallmark type film but more realistic because it actually calls out the sexual attraction between the two leads, and stuff like that, I was like cool, this is right up my alley.

It felt too ..umm, meta at times, but that is probably not the right word to use, more like a bad attempt at parodying a Hallmark type film. Instead of showing a potential couple that look like they cannot wait to get their hands on each other, you get dialogue where the ex boyfriend says to the woman, you were so crazy in bed, and really know how to satisfy a man, but this vulgar commentary pops up along all this "regular" dialogue that is more likely to be what you might find in a Hallmark romance.

The tone of the film just fell off, and given the cast of this film, if I am being honest, I was expecting something special, or quite memorable, but instead the film is memorable for all the wrong reasons.

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