Four Christmases DVD Review
SoHood.com Reviewed by: Lily Lee
Movie Rating:  4.0 out of 5
Extras Rating: 0 out of 5

Overview: When upscale, happily unmarried San Francisco couple Kate and Brad find themselves socked in by fog on Christmas morning, their exotic vacation plans morph into the family-centric holiday they had, until now, gleefully avoided. Out of obligation–and unable to escape–they trudge to not one, not two, but four relative-choked festivities, increasingly mortified to find childhood fears raised, adolescent wounds reopened… and their very future together uncertain. As Brad counts the hours to when he can get away from their parents, step-parents, siblings and an assortment of nieces and nephews, Kate is starting to hear the ticking of a different kind of clock. And by the end of the day, she is beginning to wonder if their crazy families’ choices are not so crazy after all.

When a couple Brad (Vince Vaughn) and Kate (Reese Witherspoon) hook up in a nightclub which they have sex in the bathroom right from the start, they fall in love with each other. Fast Forward, three years later, Christmas is coming and the couple’s families  want to meet them. But Brad and Kate decide to lie to their families by going on a trip. When their flight is canceled and they get stranded at the airport in San Francisco. A newscaster tries to interview the couple they are seen on the local news, and when their parents call them up they have no choice but to agree to a visit.

Their first stop is at the home of Brad’s father, Howard (Robert Duvall),and we meet Brad’s (Orlando) brothers Dallas (Tim McGraw) and Denver (Jon Favreau) they are trained UFC fighters. Also Denver’s wife Susan (Katy Mixon) who is pregnant and I might add they are a perfect match especially in the game Taboo. After a satellite dish tears up the living room, Brad and Kate get themselves out of there. The second family they visit is Kate’s family: Her mom, Marilyn (Mary Steenburgen) and Kate’s sister, grandmom and grand pop and he sister husband. At the house Kate takes a pregnancy test which we later on learn she was negative.

So from family to family, both Brad and Kate argue and find out things that they didn’t know about one another. Kate finds out that she wants to have a baby with Brad but he doesn’t. I’m not really going to spoil it for you guys but it was overall it’s a funny film, a must watch.