Articles tagged with: Four Christmases
People must like indentikit Vince Vaughn movies more than we thought - Four Christmases is still top of the weekend box office. It just goes to show - at this time of year, moviegoers like nothing more than to snuggle down and enjoy lighthearted festive japes starring two of America's most recognisable comic stars. That's why Four Christmases has topped the US weekend box office for the second week running. Well, it's either that or because the most high-profile movie released on Friday was Punisher: War Zone, a film that looks as if it's almost aggressively bumhole. Either one's fine.
Good news - Vince Vaughn's new movie Four Christmases has done better at the weekend box office than his last Christmas movie Fred Claus. In fact, Four Christmases has done so much better that it's the top movie at the US weekend box office this week, beating off cultish vampire phenomenons, big-budget historical epics and dumb actioners alike. That's great news for Vince Vaughn and the cast and crew of Four Christmases, but don't think that first paragraph was a compliment - just to add a little bit of perspective, here's a list of other things that are better than Fred Claus: Bridge To Terabithia, I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry, Alvin And The Chipmunks, YouTube videos of people getting injured, genital herpes, crying pensioners, papercuts and smacking yourself about the face with a brick. Doesn't make Four Christmases look so good in comparison, does it?
One movie out this week is Four Christmases - the second part in Vince Vaughn's trilogy of inexplicably awful Christmas films. But Four Christmases isn't just any old inescapably terrible Vince Vaughn Christmas film. No, Four Christmases is the Christmas film where Vince Vaughn and his co-star Reese Witherspoon apparently decided that they absolutely hated each other during filming, making the shoot a nightmare for everybody involved. Except if you ask Reese Witherspoon about that, she'll tell you it's all hooey. Looking to dispel those rumours, Reese Witherspoon has come forward to say that she didn't hate Vince Vaughn at all, and that he's the funniest actor she's ever worked with. Reese should be careful what she says; Jennifer Aniston once thought the same about Vince Vaughn and look what happened to her - John Mayer. Gree.
Not content with making one shoddy Christmas movie in his lifetime, Vince Vaughn has signed up to star in forthcoming festive blockbuster Four Christmases with Reese Witherspoon - a woman who he's not exactly BFFs with.
It's been reported that Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon keep clashing on the set of Four Christmases, thanks to Reese's insistence that each scene is planned and perfected in advance being at direct odds with Vince Vaughn's preference to just roll up at the last minute and yammer stuff off the top of his head. One thing's for sure - Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn had better fall in line pretty quickly and decide whether they want Four Christmases to be hammy and overacted or lame and half-hearted, because if they're both pulling in different directions then the movie runs the very real risk of being neither of those things at all.
