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38Some screwball moments elicit a chuckle or two, but the script is weak and the characterizations clichéd.
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38Can't decide whether it wants to be a black comedy, dumb farce, or sentimental sit-com.
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Pulling off a premise this creepy and cockamamie would require a lot of skill, far more than can be found in the director of "Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo" and the writers of "A Very Brady Sequel."
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25Bad enough to make even James Gandolfini and Catherine O'Hara seem dull.
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25Ben Affleck's goose is cooked with Surviving Christmas, a movie that makes "Gigli" look like one of the crowning moments in his career.
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25Everything about it is manufactured -- the emotions are false, the sentiments are phony, and the story is a construction of mirthless silliness. It's a product, not a creative expression.
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25Remember that the director, the renowned Mike Mitchell, is the genius who helmed "Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo," and be sufficiently generous to accept that such a high level of excellence is hard to sustain.
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12It's the sort of stupid swill that gets spewed out by a studio committee, slapped together without a brain, a heart, or a good idea about where to put a camera or when to cut a scene.
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0A crass, shrill and laughless disaster of a holiday comedy with a desperately mugging Ben Affleck that should be banned under the Geneva Convention.
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0So bad you're nostalgic for "Gigli." So painful you need an epidural. So mindless you'll lose yours wondering, "What were they thinking?"
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20Affleck may finally have found a use for his obnoxious personality, because Drew is amazingly annoying.
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20As it is, an unbearably irritating, shouty, gurning Affleck takes the anaemic script and injects it with strychnine.
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0There are no survivors here.
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A dismally formulaic hodgepodge of crude humor and wan attempts to tug at the heart.
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30As you watch the comedy lurch along, the woozy, sinking sensation it produces suggests a movie slapped together after the consumption of far too many gallons of that spiked eggnog.
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30Absolutely awesome in its relentless mediocrity.
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20Wrenches paltry giggles and cheap warmth from a screenplay that makes "Son in Law" seem like Sam Shepard. But wretched Affleck is the real liability.
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20An almost mirth-free, poorly conceived comedy destined to offer Ben Affleck bashers satchels full of new ammunition.
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10It's screen comedy at the end of its tether, Capra-corn gone rancid.
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10The folks who served up this formulaic swill seem to think comedy grants you a free pass from credibility. Our lonely hero's artificial Yuletide enthusiasm is more than odd: it's not recognizably human.
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0This ghastly comedy emits the subliminal whine of a sucking chest wound.
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10A lame comic premise, a tiresome-bordering-on-obnoxious protagonist and a script devoid of humor is a lot to overcome for any movie, and Surviving Christmas is not the one to do it.