Ma famille en cadeau

Typical Hallmark/Lifestyle Christmas movie. Unrealistic, plot-holes a plenty. There are a number of laugh out loud moments. A number of cringe moments.

You don't watch this kind of movie for deep or intellectual storytelling.

To the people who say how offensive this movie is and how unrealistic the way the midwestern parents are, as a non-religious British man who dated some from from Iowa, visiting Iowa for a family wedding was not unlike this, with people trying so hard to be inclusive, that they actually became offensive, in an hilarious way.

I really wish the gay son story had been bought to the front, for a truly chaotic family celebration.

When I first saw this movie, I was literally laughing out loud at the decorations of the groom's hometown. So reminiscent of my own hometown as a kid where had similar traditions. (No cell phones, computers back then!!) Hilarious!! What I really liked was the introduction to Jewish traditions for Hanukah, which I've never seen in a Christmas movie. It was also fabulous seeing Wendie Malick. She is a phenomenal actress! Cynthia Stevenson also phenomenal- batty and wacky! The two of them being so different and then finding a way to come together is one of the best things. The husbands are marginally supportive, but let the mothers duke it out. The relationship between the two young lovers is also great, but as a mother of daughters, I would be highly suspicious of a relationship of six months becoming so serious after such a short time. However, I'm not sure how old the two are so maybe they've already been around the relationship block before. Overall a great movie and I look for it every year!!

The plot of this movie has to do with two families with different religious beliefs and a young couple getting married. The first time the families gather are during the Christmas holidays. One family is Jewish and the other Christian.

This movie has some great laughter and funny situations, which are so far-fetched at times that you can't help but laugh out loud. The mom that celebrates Christmas in her own colorful way is attempting to mix Judaism with Christianity when the families meet for the first time. Some of it is very funny while other parts are heart warming. The Jewish roots family manages to pull their own share of funny moments in sabotaging Christmas but not in a spiteful way.

While these situations and further discussions of their future keep creeping up the young couple are actually questioning whether they both want the same things in a marriage.

This movie is not a must see like "Meet the Fockers" however, it does have it have enough of a plot line that you will be entertained throughout the movie. It also educates you if you unfamiliar with either religion. If you want to have a few out loud laughs, then it is definitely worth your while to check this movie out. If anything it will remind you of your own special Christmas or Chanukah memories or even a mixed religious holiday.

It's interesting that some viewers saw this movie as being offensive; since it's really nothing more than a light-hearted, good-hearted look at how the holidays can be shared by those of the Christian and Jewish faiths. Will it be a happy, peaceful Chrismukkah?

Henry Kringle and Rebecca Fine have known each other only six months, but already live together in a NYC apartment, and are making plans to marry. Rebecca is Jewish and Henry is Christian, which causes them no problems.

Will it cause their parents problems, though? The holidays are coming and the couple will soon find out. They will spend Christmas with Henry's parents in Wisconsin, and Rebecca's parents will come for a day or so on their way to Aspen.

Due to bad weather, Rebecca's parents end up spending more time in "Jewish Hell" than they planned. All the houses in the neighborhood look right out of Christmas Town, only the Kringle's house has a Fiddler on the Roof decoration on the roof, too, to make the Fines feel welcome.

It's all for laughs, as well as for showing how differences between parents and differences between an engaged couple, can be overcome. If you are hyper-sensitive about religion, maybe this isn't the film for you, but it's a nice one for those looking for some holiday fun and for some sensitivity.

As a Christian and Catholic, I found this movie to be offensive. It portrays a Christian family that is VERY extreme in it's celebration of Christmas. The mother of the Christian boy borders on a lunatic in the way she talks about Christmas and the way she interacts with the Jewish mother and father. The movie seems to monger sympathy for the Jewish mother and father in this unreal Christian community where everyone is completely obsessed with Christmas. For me, it's a less than subtle way of Christian bashing in this movie, which reveals the Jewish family as rational, stable and hip and contrasting the Christian family as irrational, unstable and square.