Customer Reviews
Terrible Movie 
2008-06-24
This could very well be the worst movie I have ever seen. Every gag is predictable, boring and unfunny. I can't believe two performers the caliber of Broderick and DeVito allowed themselves to become involved in this horrible mess. Yeeeeccch!
This is harder than watching White Christmas!! 2008-04-07
Christmas movies are either very good, or very bad. Deck the Halls falls into the latter. When Danny DeVito is on the television show 'The View' and expresses how much he hates this movie, you know you are in for a stinker.
I never considered Matthew Broderick to be much of an actor. Nothing against the guy, I was just never a fan. His character is a conservative, nerdy optometrist who deems himself 'The Christmas Guy'. He is very much into traditions, much to his family's pain.
So in comes 'Buddy' played by Danny DeVito. He gets it into his head that he wants a house that can be viewed from space. That's it. That is the only reason the plot moves forward and it is absurd. His hot twin daughters showed him an internet site which shows people's houses from space and his house cannot be seen. If you had a wife that looked like that would you really care?? But this is supposed to be a sappy Christmas story, so here we go.
Matthew and Danny's characters begin to hate each other. Buddy does his house lights that would have made Clark W. Griswald green with envy. He also has a living manger complete with live cows, sheep, and a camel. Matthew is jealous and can't get any sleep at night, so he attempts to sabotage Buddy's electrical system, of course not only does Buddy have a large, noisy portable generator, he's stealing power from his own house to run his insane light show. The final straw comes when Dr. Finch tries to assault Buddy's house with illegal fireworks. The idiot can't even do that right.
Of course the wives get tired of all the foolishness and go to a hotel for the holidays. Buddy and the good Doctor Finch decide to make up, bury the hatchet, and set things right with the wives. This is where it gets even more ridiculous than even I could have imagined.
First off, they decorate the hotel with lights, and have huge Christmas light displays decorating a path back to the house. The town has become a ghost town at this point, the lights do not interfere with traffic, and there is NOBODY else to be seen anywhere. Then they get back to the house
and see that the two husbands have set up a lavish Christmas dinner. This is all very well and good, but come to find out they never eat it and I suppose everything goes bad. They do not eat it because no MTV is at Buddy's house wanting to do a story on the loser who wants his house seen from space.
But of course now he has no lights on his house because he used them all to decorate a five mile path from the house to the hotel (I imagine that must have been wrecked when MTV News crews and the entire town show up all at once outside Buddy's door by the way). So ala 'It's a Wonderful Life', everyone donates lights to Buddy so he can redecorate his house. Boo hoo hoo.
This is a terrible terrible terrible movie.
HORROR! 2008-03-01
If I could give this movie no stars, I would! Bad, lame, boring, cheap and annoying! Deck the Halls is possibly the worst Christmas movie I have ever seen in my entire life! It was boring, and had no point or story line! Dont waste your time snuggling in front of the fire watching this junk!
enjoy 
2008-02-25
Deck the Halls
Bought this as I started seeing it on a Bus trip to New York, and the dvd was damaged - after seeing the beginning, wanted to see the rest. Really good. Laughed alot, which is what everyone needs.
DECK THE HALLS 
2008-01-24
VERY FUNNY, A GOOD HOLIDAY FAMILY MOVIE!!
CECELIA P.
LOS ANGELES, CA.
"I'm The Christmas Guy" 
2008-01-06
No Description Available.
Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: PG
Release Date: 6-NOV-2007
Media Type: DVD
Not so good 
2008-01-01
For me, I am okay for this movie. It is just a typical Christmas movie. The acting is just the worst part of the whole movie. It is because they are kind of exaggerating. There are some other Christmas movie that I saw before were better than this one. Overall, it is okay.
Deck the House with Bright Lights 2007-12-27
When I saw the reviews here I rented and didn't expect much. I was pleasantly surprised by the movie. This is as good or better than most the latest holiday fare out there. In a nutshell Devito moves to Broderick's neighborhood and takes over with his friendliness and Christmas lighting. Broderick tries to strike back but things don't go as planned for either of them. Some hilarious moments as Devito tries to make his lights visible in outer space. Overall a funny family movie if you enjoyed "Christmas with the Kranks" or "Jingle All the Way". Decent quality DVD with no extras. I wouldn't pay $19.99 for it, but $9.99 wouldn't be out of line. Reasonably replayable Christmas movie.
Laugh-out-loud funny! 2007-12-27
Don't go looking for brilliant drama and witty Algonquin Roundtable insights into society here. This is a tremendously silly Christmas movie that families will adore. There's a cast of loveable characters behaving badly because of a neighborhood rivalry over Christmas lights. As you can expect, Danny DeVito plays an over-compensating Napoleonic nemesis to Matthew Broderick's mild mannered but pushed-over-the-edge rival.
You can probably fill in the rest of the story yourself. However, those expected complications are played out so well by the excellent cast that you can't help but laugh out loud!
If you can enjoy entertainment on those simple terms, then this is a Christmas DVD you'll enjoy for years to come.
Adding to my Christmas movie tradition 2007-12-25
I am very surprised at all the negative reviews this movie has received! But I guess everyone has their own opinion. When I saw this movie, I thought it was hilarious and the ending is very sweet. I thought this movie was great and want to purchase it to make it part of my Christmas movie tradition. Some of the other movies that are part of my Christmas tradtion are "Christmas Vacation" (Chevy Chase), "The Santa Clause" series (Tim Allen), "Elf" (Will Farrell), "Scrooged" (Bill Murray), "Trapped in Paradise" (Nicolas Cage), "Jingle All The Way" (Arnold Schwartzenegger), and "March of the Wooden Soldiers" (Laurel and Hardy). I only list them so you can get an idea of the kinds of movies I like, and if you like the same movies, well, then it's a good guess you will probably like this movie as well! Just seeing how they light up this house in the movie is worth the watch - it looks like he has a tv screen on his roof - it's very cool!
