Father Christmas Is Back

Father Christmas Is Back

Four sisters – Caroline, Joanna, Paulina, and Vicky – reunite for the Christmas Holiday in a Yorkshire mansion. However, their estranged father, James, joins in for the first time since he left the family behind decades prior. The group attempts to get through the holiday despite comedic misunderstandings, while also uncovering the long-buried secret that tore their family apart, so many years ago.

  • Released: 2021-11-07
  • Runtime: 105 minutes
  • Genre: Comedy, Family
  • Stars: Nathalie Cox, Talulah Riley, Elizabeth Hurley, Kelsey Grammer, John Cleese, Caroline Quentin, April Bowlby, Kris Marshall, Ray Fearon, Katy Brand, Ania Marson, Naomi Frederick, Amelie Prescott, Janie Booth, Bryan Samson
  • Director: Philippe Martinez, Mick Davis
 Comments
  • judeviews - 30 December 2022
    The worst Christmas movie I have watched this Christmas
    In summary: Painfully boring scattered with unlikeable characters.

    I am unsure why this film was made, the angle and plot do not paint a picture, just splashes of grey and drizzle.

    The comedy scenes are over-acted. It is very clear when a scene is "supposed" to be funny, but it isn't. The jokes are antiquated and exaggerated; beyond the point of forgiveable mistep yet skipping over the fun potenial of irony.

    It is unclear why the sisters hate each other, and how the audience should take this. Are we team Edward, or are we team Jacob? Overdone.

    Distractingly, the main actresses suffer from frozen face. Are they happy, sad, angry? I couldn't tell, the faces did not move. This handicap is only further impaired by a lacking and stale script.

    I did not finish this movie, and am saddened at the 50 minutes I wasted here that I will never recover. If you want a feel-good Christmas film, absolutely run. This isn't it.
  • mrglenngrant - 7 December 2022
    Not one I'll watch again.
    Watched this with perrirn on the 6th of December - one of our first Christmas films of the season.

    It was ok, I guess. It did have a few genuinely funny moments and a few genuinely touching moments ... but it's alltogether not pulled off in a very good way at all. It's a bog-standard, cheaply made Christmas movie from the growing Netflix stable.

    Not sure why this is so much of a disappointment when, for example, A Castle For Christmas is so much better?

    Part of the reason is that I was constantly taken out of the film because Christmas scenes were being shot in what was clearly full-blown Spring ... by the looks of the trees, at least.

    Elizabeth Hurley is still gorgeous.

    John Cleese has got so fat.

    47/100.