
Boyd Mitchler and his family must spend Christmas with his estranged family of misfits. Upon realizing that he left all his son's gifts at home, he hits the road with his dad in an attempt to make the 8-hour round trip before sunrise.... (Full plot summary below)
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Boyd Mitchler and his family must spend Christmas with his estranged family of misfits. Upon realizing that he left all his son's gifts at home, he hits the road with his dad in an attempt to make the 8-hour round trip before sunrise.
Leave your thoughts about A Merry Friggin' Christmas.
| Entertainment WeeklyJason ClarkEven if Robin Williams were still among us, the limp, drearily derivative A Merry Friggin' Christmas would feel like it had a pall cast over it. |
| Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckRepresenting one of Robin Williams' last films, A Merry Friggin' Christmas lives up to its bah, humbug title. Not only because it's terrible, although it is, but rather because one desperately hoped that the beloved actor would go out on a high note. |
| Blu-ray.comBrian OrndorfDoesn't make much of an effort to subvert clichés, wasting a perfectly skilled cast on lukewarm relationship woes and a yuletide appreciation that's meant to lean toward the farcical, but mostly comes off unimaginative. |
| Film Journal InternationalDoris ToumarkineSome fans of the late Robin Williams may emerge to patronize this charmless, low-ball, low-wattage entry. |
| New York PostKyle SmithThe film’s mix of elements of “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” and “Bad Santa” is amusing. |
| The New York TimesBen KenigsbergIt’s a testament to Williams’s energy that even in an unfortunate part as Virgil, an angry, alcoholic dad, he comes across as the most vivid member of the cast. |
| eFilmCritic.comRob GonsalvesRobin Williams shuffles around looking angry and depressed - more so than the script would justify. |
| Slant MagazineNick PriggeWhereas "Bad Santa" was nastier and riskier, as well as more mischievously winsome, A Merry Friggin' Christmas is as curiously timid as it is morally dubious. |
| RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzThere are a few nice moments of performance and filmmaking (including the elaborately choreographed final shot), but not enough to redeem a film that seems to flinch from the harsh truths it was presumably created to address. |
| NewsdayRafer GuzmanA slipshod comedy with Williams in default mode as a lovable grouch. A waste of a once-brilliant star. |