Wonderful character development!

i know i wasted 90 mins of my life.

Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

deck the halls Two neighbors have it out after one of them decorates his house for the holidays so brightly that it can be seen from space.so meet the finch family in clovedale in the USA love Xmas a have their tradition but a new neighbors come alone who like to work hard and have competitive spirit buddy hall and his wife a three 2twins meet the finch family move in to the house across the street from the Finch's. The Halls in general are different in outlook and temperament than the Finches. Unlike Steve, Buddy Hall scams his way through life and never follows through with anything he starts. While Kelly Finch and Tia Hall - Steve's wife and Buddy's wife respectively - and their children begin friendships based largely on those differences, Steve and Buddy butt heads based on those differences. It begins with Buddy striving to have his house seen from outer space by decorating it as lavishly and brightly as possible. One of the results of Buddy's task his that he becomes the new go to guy for anything but as buddy go small on lights to try and out do each other things go new extremes like roller blading the two families don't realize that its harming the relationships there's so much that goes wrong for the finches that it marked busy hall go crazy the acting is fun for Xmas movie with snow this film is 1hr33mins and its ideal to sit a watch

"Deck the Halls" is actually a fun and enjoyable Christmas comedy. Of course it doesn't match the 1989 "Christmas Vacation". However, I will say that "Deck the Halls" is noteworthy and does compliment the genre well enough.It is much in the same League as "Christmas Vacation", as it is the Holiday feud of two neighbors competing to have the role of the local Christmas guy - the guy who is the heart of the Christmas season. And things quickly escalates out of control in no time.Danny DeVito and Matthew Broderick actually were great in their roles in this 2006 movie. But especially Broderick surprised with his performance in "Deck the Halls".The movie is fun and entertaining for the whole family, and there are some good laughs throughout the movie. It was just a shame that there weren't more funny scenes though, because it would have lifted the movie further up.If you want a fun movie for the Christmas holidays and want an alternative to "Christmas Vacation" then give "Deck the Halls" a chance. I have seen it for the past two Christmas holidays now, and believe that it will become a holiday tradition for me, just as "Christmas Vacation" is.

If you want to see a film where Matthew Broderick and Danny DeVito act like juveniles than Deck The Halls is for you. Of course some juveniles might get offended.Broderick plays the unofficial Cloverdale, Massachusetts consultant on Christmas decoration and decor. That is until DeVito comes to town and moves across the street. DeVito is gauche and city born and bred and in Kristin Chenoweth has this Playboy Centerfold wife with a pair of twin daughters who take after mom. They arouse jealousy in Broderick's daughter Alia Shawkat, but in his young son Dylan Blue the hormones begin their first rage. Chenoweth does bond somewhat with Broderick's wife Kristin Davis.Broderick's pride and joy is his own tastefully decorated house during the Yuletide season. The rather shy and retiring optometrist gets put in the shade by DeVito's gaudy display of Christmas lights. But it's costing him some big bucks for this ostentatious show and eventually his job as a car salesman.These two really start acting like fools over the whole thing. Grownups simply aren't supposed to act the way they do, but Broderick is entering a second childhood and DeVito looks like he never grew up.I can safely say this is not going to be on anyone's list of great Christmas movies though it does beat out Santa Claus Conquers The Martians considerably.

In Deck the Halls stuffy optician Steve Finch (Matthew Broderick) always plans a traditional Christmas for the family and organizes the town's Christmas display.His brash new neighbour Buddy Hall (Danny DeVito) a car salesman moves in and plans to have the brightest display in town and wants his lights to be seen from space much to the Finch's chagrin.This is a film with a Christmas themed 'neighbours at war' idea and as its a comedy it means you have to have mishaps leading to hilarious consequences such as a can of gasoline inexplicably outside a Pine tree display in the woods despite falling on snow somehow ignites when a tree is chopped by an axe. When your young children exclaim how could this happen you kind of guess this is all nonsense.However the film is full of this type of unfunny scrapes, there are no nice characters in this film. Broderick is a stuffy bore, DeVito is annoying as hell. I could never understand how others in the town liked DeVito so much and its never explained in an early scene in the car showroom how he managed to sell the car so fast to the owner of the car lot. You just have to take it as read he is an ace salesman because of his boorish charm.The film is lazily written, its not funny, even when the duo make up at the end you do not feel much as you knew it was going to happen and you never liked them in the first place. There is little chemistry between the characters because it is so badly written and directed with the actors making the best of a bad job. The film was rightly nominated for the Raspberry Awards.