Fun with Dick and Jane screenwriter Judd Apatow, fresh off of his big screen debut with The 40 Year Old Virgin runs into the sophomore jinx in this outing, and the efforts of noted director Dean Parisot (Home Fries, Galaxy Quest) can’t help the film overcome a horribly weak script. That’s the simple explanation, but there is more. This is a remake of a wonderful film from 1977 that starred Jane Fonda (imagine, choosing Jane to play Jane, how original) and the underrated George Segal and the remake suffers by comparison.
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These lists are never easy to compile. In fact, they’re largely a pain in the ass. In the end you consider that you will ultimately be leaving some films that deserved attention off. These movies are not included for various reasons, sometimes they were simply bumped off in favor of another film, or you just didn’t see it and can’t effectively include it in the list. As a result, these kinds of lists are flawed to some degree.
After careful research, and a polling of our great contributors here at Tail Slate, I have put together an official top ten list of Christmas movies. One of the things that I really wanted with this list was to try and include films that may not always be seen as a Christmas movie, but actually are since the story either includes or takes place during Christmas. The other requirement, of course, is that the movie is actually good.
