Deck the Halls [Soundtrack]

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 21, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Lakeshore Records
• ASIN: B000JJRX7U
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #214,242 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Not very Musical For the Season, November 24, 2006

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Betty Burks "Betty Burks" (Knoxville, TN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Deck the Halls (Audio CD)

This strange movie was as far from Christianity to obscene scenes, the music is as varied as the sordid duel between a successful doctor, played by Matthew Broderick who looks like the eye surgeon who botched both the cataract operations in January, 2002, when he put silicone implants in my eyes. He was very like my old dentist, Dr. Aymett Garner, who was also the Mayor of the small town. The new weird neighbors who moved in across the street from the doctor's family at night, were your usual un-Christian types. Buddy had decided to try to be a car salesman and sold his first used car to the owner of the dealership. His wife had been a model for a college art class in the nude, and the twin blonde daughters were interested only in sex and boys.

The doctor's family were the opposite: dignified and the usual upper crust of the neighborhood and he was the Mayor as well as owning a store on the city square. When the two men meet, Buddy is stealing the doc's newspaper. The talk was weird as the words the doctor used were over Buddy's head, like "sarcastic" and "metaphorically." Later, Buddy did use "indigeous" to the region and "cliche" -- who'd have believed it?! The daughters of the sexy model found the big house owned by the doctor on the internet map, but their house right across the street was absent. Buddy decided to put Christmas white lights all over the house and his yard to make them visible from outer space. He even had a Santa's sleigh (the runaway horse scene was funny) with two skittish horses he had "found" on the outskirts of town on which he had duct-taped reindeer horns. He did have a real camel and sheep out in his front yard, with all of the general Christmas outdoor decorations.

The music coming from his house was loud and obnoxious; yet, cars, trucks, all type of vehicles parked outside the doc's house to see the display. The vulgar sheriff even admitted that he had taken his family out to see it. No one around could sleep because of the noise and the light display. Buddy had stolen electricity with two different lines from the doctor's house. He had taken his project too far and it became a public nuiance. He agreed that it was a stupid idea but was encouraged by his wife to add on to the circus. This movie was way overdone, more worthy and fitting of a Will Ferrell flick like Elf.

Steve, the eye doctor, was extremely organized, the exact opposit of Jeff and Christine who looks like his wife. His pre-teen precosious son used walkie talkies to take matters into their own hands to unplug the lights after the carolers led by the doctor could not perform their yearly ritual of singing "Deck the Halls" and other carols around the neighborhood. His son enjoyed watching the sexy females across the street and said this was his best Christmas ever.

If you like bathroom humor (like those movie goers in this town), then this is the show for you this season. There is no dignity and it parodies Christmas -- no religious aspect. Christmas is the birthday anniversary of the Christ child who was totally forgotten in this low-class attempt to be funny. The music selected for this movie was not always appropriate to the season but to the obscenity of Buddy's attempt to outdo his high-class neighbor and to take over his place of being in charge of Christmas for the town.