Sean_Biggins

It's funny how these public ratings work on IMDB because often the films I think should have higher scores get low ones and vice versa but I think I'm quite average in my tastes so that just seems odd. Anyhow, this is a light comedy and that's all it's meant to be but it's very well done and not overly sappy meaning it doesn't cross the line into 'cringe' territory which almost all these types of films do which is something in itself. The acting is great all around with great writing, directing and production values and I can't see how it could be any better so I give it a 10.

I don't understand the low rating at all because I thought this movie was hilarious, and for what it's worth, I didn't like the original with Macaulay Culkin. I like clever humor and this movie actually has some laugh out loud parts which I find rare in comedy these days. I like the casting and the acting is all very good. On an interesting note; some of the filming was in Montreal, Canada and it was shot in Jan and the snow looks real and I bet it was because I grew up in Montreal and know that look and it sure gave it a Christmassy feel for me because I was there until I was about 10 yo so all my X-mases looked like what's shown in the movie. It's a fun movie for sure imo.

There's really not much to this movie. I find this era hard to watch because I was about 6 yo when this was made and it was just a weird time with the advent of the birth control pill for women and supposed women's liberation because of it, but instead, it was more just like a big hollow sex fest. These were movies made right at the point when American culture was going into the dumpster -- it wasn't there yet, but by 1970, it was basically all over. There are some pretty sexy women in this though and the cars, houses and decor are interesting. Walter Matthau is his usual boring self. I think the very bottom of his career was when he simply played 'the drunk' in the 1974 disaster movie 'Earthquake' where he just sat on a bar stool getting pissed while the world around him went to hell in a hand cart, but was a pretty accurate metaphor of the times, but in 1967, he was apparently still sober and like the rest of the country, had not yet taken a turn for the worst.