Oct 12 2007'Christmas in Wonderland' Similar to Christmas in Derivative Hell
Mom's out of town and Patrick Swayze is going to have to do the shopping!? Men can't do Christmas shopping! Did mom not see Jingle All the Way? I love it when a comedy is so rock solid in its premise that it can unabashedly deliver the plot within the first five seconds.
Or so I thought! But once the mad-cap music kicks in, this film becomes an entirely different premise of kids finding a bag of money and spending it in the mall while being chased by the villainous Tim Curry (why, Tim?) and Chris Kattan (expected). Someone finally made that glorious chimera of Home Alone and Blank Check that you never asked for. What a fine debut by up-and-coming screenwriter Wanda Birdsong Shope. If this doesn't work out, her name automatically qualifies her to be a great drag queen.
Reader Comments
1. menikmati - October 12, 2007 5:58 PM
A movie set entirely in the west edmonton mall, starring a SNL hasbeen and a Jackass never-was.. and I thought Requiem for a dream was depressing..
2. Ruddiger Van Der Hoosen - October 12, 2007 11:29 PM
I'm not sure what's more pathetic. The fact that they made this movie, or the fact that I realized in the first 10 seconds of the trailer that it was filmed in West Edmonton Mall.
3. Slow - October 13, 2007 6:42 AM
it took me till end (wave pool) to figure out that it was the W.E.M. Then again.. I'm not from Edmonton..!! ahaha suckers..!
4. bong williams - October 15, 2007 10:49 AM
i love the bag of banded canadian $100 bills.