This is a very funny and very sick movie. You have to enjoy the type of humor for which Seth McFarlane is known, and unless you watch this on broadcast TV, prepare for a great deal of bad language. I heard several people get reprimanded for their language but didn't hear any. Usually this was because the sound went out at appropriate times. Substitute words also seem to have been added.
Ruta Lee is great, and Mickey Rooney surpasses even his "brother" Andy and yet still manages to be appealing.
Wait, Lana and Clark? Only on "Smallville", and even that one ends up with Lois.
Kevan Michaels and Johnny Ferrara are very good as the two "mobsters".
Andrew Keegan is also very appealing as the poor loser boyfriend.
When the director of the movie Lana wants to be in shows up, this adds even more laughs. He brings an agent who didn't do anything for me. I forget her name.
One highlight for me is Gary Coleman as the guy who delivers pizza after some family members complain about having to go vegan just because of Jack. He actually makes himself right at home and is quite funny. I have to wonder if Coleman was a loser who had to take roles like this where he made to look pathetic. But he convinced me that he was enjoying himself, and I hope he was, because I was enjoying watching him.
About halfway through the movie, something really bad happens, but this just makes the movie funnier, unlike a similar movie I saw a week earlier where tragedy turns a comedy into a drama.
The side effects from Uncle Teddy's medication give us the opportunity for some disgusting bathroom humor.
It's definitely not your typical family Christmas movie. It's a family, but don't let the kids watch it.
