With Robin Williams and Candace Bergen, I had hopes for a funny romp. This effort is dull, and maybe the script read funny, but we watched to the end, so it got two stars. Oliver Pratt's brief appearance as a drunk Santa is almost startling. There's an attempt at reconciliation between the estranged father and son that...fizzles. And there aren't any real laughs, though they really try...
A Merry Friggin' Christmas
(2014)
It reached for funny or sweet and missed, in every scene
18 December 2021