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Not really a Christmas movie in the traditional sense but it takes place around Christmas. This is one of our favorite yearly movies for the holidays. Great acting and the jokes come at you fast with a lot of slapstick physical humor as well. Reynolds plays the fat kid in high school stuck in the friend zone with his secret crush. He gets humiliated and leaves town becomes a bit of successful douche and go's back 10 years later to get even. Anna Faris plays a hilariously insane pop star. May not be for everyone but it's one of our favorites. Nothing woke.

We are nowhere near the 1980's and will never be again

I was trying to find out if there was a gay-man plot in Killer Rental and since I wasn't paying attention too well, I missed the secret clues. The first clue was one of the kids says, "you're so gay" and I immediately thought this was kind of derogative statement from the 80's. It was not. It was, "how cool it is that you are gay". Odd how it gets worse and worse towards the end of the film until we see two bros kissing in their modern experiment of trying to be gay. Seems modern liberal kids can't come up with better things to do than experiment with their sexuality with your bros. What a load of shit.

And I bumped the overall rating down for this movies being a found footage film, although it kind of isn't, but bills itself as such. The acting, the plot, and bits of gore aren't too bad. It's hard to get invested in these kids, so when they die we kind of cheer. I find it hard to recommend this film. Maybe if you fast forward the bro gay scene, it's worth a watch. God, I miss the 70's and 80's.

Can this cell phone slop be stopped?

Here's where technology really shits out. I'm so tired of these homemade, cell-phone movies with horrible acting and piss poor sound. They're a waste of everyone's time and need to be held accountable for lowering the collective IQ of the planet.

You would never guess this was a Netflix movie and not one of those hallmark holiday cookie cutter turnouts. The acting is terrible, everything is too glossy, clean and perfectly decorated. It all looks like a fake set. While there are a few good laughs but most of it is cheesy, eye rolling and cringe. The story is so cliché and unoriginal it might have been and AI script. There's a bit of DEI in the surrounding characters and of course the husbands family is a the mixed race gay grandpas. Do not be fooled by watching a trailer for this. All the actual funny parts are in the trailer, the movie is not really like that. If you actually like those cheesy hallmark movies, and it's fine if you do, you may actually enjoy this more than me.

Not as good as the first one. (Spoilers)

The woke parts:
The big boss bad guy whom everyone feared was played by Sharon Stone. She played a mentally unstable psychopath who went on tantrums, stabbing and killing at will.
When Hutch was about to meet his doom at the hands of Sharon Stone's badassery, he was saved by his marksman wife with a tranquilizer dart gun.

This movie was heavy on sequel-overdose. That is, overdoing what made the original good. Hutch is a great character and he had his moments. Odinkirk is pure genius in this role. The same can be said about Chris Lloyd. The writing was lazy. The story came up short. The big showdown was an overdone version of the machine shop scene from the original. This one took place in a rundown water park.

My recommendation is go ahead and watch it if it's free and you have nothing better to do. It had its moments.

Nothing woke. This is sort of a Christmas movie I guess. It's a dark comedy but there's more drama than outright comedy. The humor that's
there works well and there are some funny moments. I wouldn't even say it has a happy ending though. Don't be scared away by Paul Rudd he's not his usual over the top goofy self and much more toned down here. It's an ex con released before the holidays who's trying to go straight and do right by his family for Christmas. If you want a break from the sappy rom com holiday movies give this one a try.

Mediocre but not bad!

(NO SPOILERS)
If you've watched through everything else on Netflix and you're looking for something that will at minimum keep your attention, this isn't a bad choice. If you're looking for a dark interpretation of the standard Santa Clause story, this is at least unique.

Woke aspects:
Only woke thing I noticed was the race-swapping of Mrs. Clause... however, they entire movie is a strong departure from standard Santa Clause myths and they took liberties with tons of things. (I mean, Santa is a gun slinging immortal with military ties, so I don't think the race of Mrs. Clause is that huge of a deal in such a ridiculous interpretation of the story.) That said, the actress who plays Mrs. Clause does very well. It's a 4.5-5/10.

just like the old pixar movies, aka good animation+nice story+kid friendly

thats is no woke.
maybe the fat that the father is the one at home while the mother is the breadwinner(but thats not something that is pushed on your face)

The only woke is the main couple is mixed race and there is a secondary gay couple in the 1st episode that didn't show up in the second one so
that may be a very minor thing. This is listed as a mystery comedy and i's a couple that goes to an island retreat where the wife finds a cell phone
from a missing couple. The acting is ok but the story is all over the place and the writing is very lazy. There's huge leaps in logic that make no sense and characters acting unrealistically. So the wife finds a 15 year old bust flip phone in the jungle so naturally she hunts down another one and buys it so she can swap sim cards and see the contents. She sees nothing suspicious but acts like she does and starts researching the couple on the phone. She finds out they went missing during a hurricane on the island. Again nothing suspicious but she acts like she discovered some big mystery and starts obsessing. Then about
2 scenes later she's telling her husband all these historical details like she's now an expert on the case. They both just decide there is some big mystery and they are going to investigate around the island and figure it out. It's absurd and the 2 of them are about the most insufferable and stupid couple you can imagine. They just run around the island like idiots on a play date never thinking once about contacting the police about finding evidence in a missing persons case. The whole show is jumping back and forth between the missing couple and dumber and dumber P.I. The humor is eye rolling cringe and not funny in the least and the
story just isn't interesting enough to keep your attention. 2 episodes was enough for me.

An older lesser known thanksgiving movie from the 90's. It's the home for the holidays disfunctional family comedy. Good acting
and some great humor. The only woke thing is the brother (played by Downey Jr) is gay and he has an equal story line. I'm only giving it a 1 because unlike today it's not preachy about it, there's no victimhood, it's never in your face obnoxious with any part of it and the character isn't pushed into the front of the story. He's just an equal part of the story like all the other characters. This was 1995 when Downey Jr was pretty drugged out at this point and it's very obvious. His performance in hilarious but you can definitely see the drug use coming through in his jacked up erratic character portrayal. Still a great Thanksgiving movie.

Nowhere in western Europe it looks like this anymore

Feels like a documentary about a extinct species.

Woke wise its just some of the things the girl says but its very tame and nothing like modern day woke.

Not too bad, decent story

I couldn't detect any elements of wokeness in this movie. It is a heartwarming tale about a brother and sister whose parents are going through a potential separation. They have to learn to get along with one another and ultimately the family comes back together. There's a bit of a twist ending, which my daughter seemed to like. I would trust this to be seen by kids. There are some scarier scenes for the really little ones since it does deal with dreams and nightmares.

Compared to a much larger budget kids film, the writing is, I would say, okay, but not on par with some of the major films out there from Pixar, etc.