{"id":2826,"date":"2004-10-22T10:59:43","date_gmt":"2004-10-22T17:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=2826"},"modified":"2004-10-22T10:59:43","modified_gmt":"2004-10-22T17:59:43","slug":"bad-review-revue-extra-surviving-christmas-is-awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2004\/10\/22\/bad-review-revue-extra-surviving-christmas-is-awesome\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Review Revue Extra: Surviving Christmas Is Awesome!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The critics are raving about Surviving Christmas<\/em>:<\/p>\n

“Absolutely awesome in its relentless mediocrity.” — Desson Thomson, WASHINGTON POST<\/a><\/p>\n

“Hans Blix is still searching for bombs, he should check out Surviving Christmas<\/em>, a crass, shrill and laughless disaster of a holiday comedy with a desperately mugging Ben Affleck that should be banned under the Geneva Convention” — Lou Lumenick, NEW YORK POST<\/a><\/p>\n

“This ghastly comedy emits the subliminal whine of a sucking chest wound.” — Jessica Winter, VILLAGE VOICE<\/a><\/p>\n

“Destined to offer Ben Affleck bashers satchels full of new ammunition.” — Brian Lowry, VARIETY<\/a><\/p>\n

“At less that 90 minutes it’s chronologically short, but psychologically eternal.” — Chris Hewitt, ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS<\/a><\/p>\n

“It’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.” — Wesley Morris, BOSTON GLOBRE<\/a><\/p>\n

“Ben Affleck’s goose is cooked with Surviving Christmas<\/em>, a movie that makes Gigli<\/em> look like one of the crowning moments in his career.” — Jami Bernard, NEW YORK DAILY NEWS<\/a><\/p>\n

“From conception to execution, an unalloyed, unqualified, unmitigated disaster.” — Carrie Rickey, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER<\/a><\/p>\n

“A 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<\/em> is not the one to do it.” — Kirk Honeycutt, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER<\/a><\/p>\n

“There are no survivors here.” — Lisa Schwarzbaum, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One a scale of 1-100, Rotten Tomatoes currently has it as a 7<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Daniel Jacobs<\/a> for calling this train wreck to my attention.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The critics are raving about Surviving Christmas: “Absolutely awesome in its relentless mediocrity.” — Desson Thomson, WASHINGTON POST “Hans Blix is still searching for bombs, he should check out Surviving Christmas, a crass, shrill and laughless disaster of a holiday comedy with a desperately mugging Ben Affleck that should be banned under the Geneva Convention” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-review-revue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}