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Who thought that a movie about mixed religious Christmas / Hanukkah would be be cute and funny.... well, it ain't...

With a very solid cast and very well made indeed for a TV movie this should be enjoyable but the embarrassment factor is squirmy rather than funny.

Honestly, some of these jokes are borderline offensive and not even in a funny way just huh, whatever type of way.

I get why this might have worked but we gave up after his parents put an orthodox rabbi figure up on the roof to compliment Santa, oh c'mon....

We just couldn't see what was so great about this and just gave it a miss....

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!!

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.

This was a fun movie. The moms, Wendy Malick and Cynthia Stevenson, are excellent in their roles - really, all the main characters are good but these two women steal the show. Reagan Pasternak is especially funny as Mary in the nativity pageant. The usual Christmas scenes are there, but with twists and unexpected results that kept it from becoming the usual Christmas Hallmark dozer. I would watch this again. If you like Christmas movies that are funny, you'll probably like this one. Wendy Malick typically chooses good scripts.

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.