Natale a 5 stelle

This film leaves you with a total sense of emptiness. The plot is non existing, dialogues which should be the funny part of the comedy result in a disaster. What a shame.

An embarrassing movie that want be satirical but result is just ridiculous. How can a director like Marco Risi and a producer like Andrea Occhipinti produce something so cheap?

Knowing most of the actors and having recently read a review I decided to give it a look. Well, apart Massimo Ghini , Ricky Memphis and the beautiful MarTina Stella, the movie is a total disaster. Bad acting, poor dialogues, and the worst screenplay. I wonder how people think about doing this kind of movies ! complete nonsense. The 2 stars are for Stella acting in 2 pieces :)

Maybe because I visited Budapest and recognized a lot of the scenery. The plot keeps getting funnier and funnier. I liked it. Surprised to see so many others didn't.

This is as much a Christmas movie as Die Hard is. Do you know the difference?

If you take the movie events out of a Christmas context, will the movie still "work"? If the answer is yes, then it's not a Christmas movie.

12 minutes into the movie I was checking my phone. 23 minutes into the movie I thought about turning it off. 75 minutes into the movie I've given up on it being good and started writing this review.

This movie is funny to some degree but it's "plot" and comedy seem better suited to a stage, maybe vaudeville. Why? Because 75% of the movie occurs in one hotel room or another. It's slapstick irreverent comedy that's just not all that funny. The reason it might get any views at all is because it's listed as a Christmas movie and it just isn't - there's nothing central to the movie that requires it to be Christmas time.

It's meant to be funny and I suppose on some level it is but I find it difficult to laugh about a movie when it's two primary characters (a PM and opposing party member from Italy) are trying to engage in an affair while in Budapest for political meetings.

As much as I like beautiful women, the blonde lead was parading around in a bra and panties in a hotel room for about 15 minutes early in the film, as beautiful as she was, her state of undress was not pivotal to the plot either. Later, a sandy blonde woman was in a nightie then yet another woman with a pixie cut was in a nightie. It's meant to add to the humor but it just doesn't.

This movie felt like a cross between the old school European soft pron movies on late night Cinemax and a three stooges movie. It did neither particularly well.

Skip it. Skip it. Skip it.