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(1 - 30) of 30 OFCS Rating: 20% Rotten Page   1   "Santa's mother, who obviously never heard of Dr. Spock, violates important childrearing advice in 'Fred Claus.' Amusing holiday chaos ensues."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Betty Jo Tucker 3.5/5 "Fred Claus is the perfect post-millennial holiday film. It's funny, smart, wicked, warm, and above all, completely clued-in to our growing crass commercialization of Christmas."   PopMatters   Bill Gibron D "Isn't there a verse in Revelations that proclaims when Tim Allen makes a funnier Christmas movie than Vince Vaughn, end times are a-comin'?"   eFilmCritic.com   Brian Orndorf "What is Ludacris doing in this movie?"   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 1/5 "One wonders what made producer Joel Silver think this bizarre mix of incompatible genres would be a potential hit. Santa may have to skip his house for every winter holiday to come."   eFilmCritic.com   Dan Lybarger 2/4 "...far from the light-hearted, family-friendly comedy its promotional materials have been promising..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair 1.5/4 "Joins the unsavory ranks of holiday entertainment that isn't entertaining and has little holiday cheer. This is a sinful missed opportunity for all involved."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman D+ "It's like they took the most tiresome elements of 10 different holiday films and patched them together into one ugly quilt."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 1.5/4 "Boasting one of the least imaginative idea-to-execution screenplays to come along in memory, all the film has is some ad libbing from Vince Vaughn to keep the film afloat from the ill-inspired direction of David Dobkin."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress 2/4 "The anemically kooky coal-in-the-stocking comedy feebly employs the same tactics. The toothless slapstick Fred Claus is merely "ho ho ho" and a bottle of dumb!"   Movie Eye   Frank Ochieng C "By trying to be both naughty and nice, it exhibits a split personality...the mixture of the jaded and the juvenile just doesn't gel."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 2/4 "The film's multitude of flaws might be more easily forgiven if the movie didn't overstay its welcome by at least a half-hour."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 3/10 "There is absolutely no way writers were involved in the process that pooped out this holiday turkey."   Planet Sick-Boy   Jon Popick 3/5 "Neither as terrible as it could be nor as funny as it should be, this is a painless way to catch a new holiday movie without getting into a fight about what part was the lamest."   Cinerina   Karina Montgomery 2/5 "a passionless, crappy, made-for-TV-grade, sanitized feel-good fest"   Film School Rejects   Kevin Carr 1.5/4 "The story vacillates between broad, kid-friendly gags and a series of oddly sour riffs on the theme of adult sibling rivalry."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh 0.5/3 "Uno esperaría que Paul Giamatti o Spacey aportasen algo a Fred Claus, pero la verdad es que podría ser el punto más bajo de las carreras de ambos"   Off-Off-Critica   MalaBesta 1/4 "There are no laughs from the material, which wants to be edgy but can't go for broke because it's too busy being a trifling piece of holiday cheer but without the cheer."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik "[A] silly flick that's just a little bit profound in its goofiness, [a] wonderland of schtick that touches on the dark flipside of all the ho-ho-ho and enforced jolliment of the Holiday Season(TM)."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 1/5 "While it tries to bring a new premise into the mix (Santa Claus has a cranky older brother), the result is just as humorless and stale as the Tim Allen's The Santa Clause trilogy."   Bronsonfive   Michael Ferraro 2.5/4 "While the movie is often undeniably amusing, it's rarely funny."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan B- "Vaughn is marvelous dancing with the elves, but plot digressions that take much too long to resolve and mangled special effects are a distraction and a nuisance."   Beliefnet   Nell Minow 1.5/4 "A holiday fable far too safe and toothless to take advantage of Vince Vaughn's ribald strengths."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 1.5/5 "Belligerently unfunny."   Film Threat   Pete Vonder Haar 1.5/5 "Watching this kind of talent forced to muddle through this minefield of tired and embarrassing jokes is almost enough to make you reject the baby Jesus altogether."   Film Threat   Pete Vonder Haar 1/5 "Fred Claus is like alump of coal, the kind of thing that no one in their right mind would possibly want to receive for Christmas and the kind of thing that could only be useful to people when set ablaze."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 2.5/5 "a fragile premise stuffed with hollow Christmas jokes"   Filmcritic.com   Sean O'Connell "Even though Vaughn knows how to build a pretty good performance out of little more than exasperated eye-rolling, he's just coasting here, and his scenes with Giamatti have no weight and no energy."   Salon.com   Stephanie Zacharek 7/10 "A Santa story you've never heard before turns into a bright holiday package - filled with pure enjoyment for kids."   www.susangranger.com   Susan Granger 4/10 "A soulless concoction that's a joy-sinkhole for the whole family."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton  (1 - 30) of 30 OFCS Rating: 20% Rotten Page   1