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72
Viewer score based on 43 votes.

Critic Score

42
Critics' score based on 31 reviews.
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Was filled with action and fun and had a hillarious storyline. Every christmas I look forward to watching this wonderful family movie. The acting was... great and really showed holiday spirit! I think if they made a sequel it would really stink. Full Review

February 05,2012
nataliecox8

This movie was horrible!!!

December 13,2008
Nascarford2448

This movie is a perfect movie for the "Holidays."You would say its the best movie you've ever seen,and it might be the worst movie you've ever... It will "Knock Your Socks Right Off You're Feet." Full Review

May 22,2008
melann473

I have never heard David Allan Coe sing a song I did not like. His songs from 1967 or so to 2007. I have heard them all at some time. I liked some... re than others, but I liked them all. thank you David Allan Coe for 40 years of good music. Full Review

May 22,2008
chris05950

This was exactly like a B rated movie that should have never made the big screen. Only a idiot would enjoy the big plastic bugs sworming around ,... d the story line kept in a store room for hours with a loud annoying lady. Not to mention the worst possible ending you can imagine, any parent would cringe. He was no hero , If he had any brains he would have taken out the crazy lady starting up the trouble instead of killing his own child. Full Review

May 22,2008
mclean40
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Critic Reviews

Fred Claus sells you something you didn't know you wanted: a Vince Vaughn Christmas movie. Vaughn is not the hook. Neither is the holiday. The script, by Dan Fogelman, is smarter than that.Full Review

Wesley Morris
Boston Globe

The sweetest thing about Fred Claus is that the message about filial love feels genuine. I wouldn't have expected that watching Giamatti tell Vaughn, "You're the best big brother anyone could ask for," would make me choke up, but it did.Full Review

Carina Chocano
Los Angeles Times

The movie wants to be good-hearted but is somehow sort of grudging. It should have gone all the way. I think Fred Claus should have been meaner if he was going to be funnier, and Santa should have been up to something nefarious, instead of the jolly old ho-ho-ho routine.Full Review

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times

Yet another ho-hum family comedy hits screens this weekend -- this one in peppermint holiday flavor.Full Review

Claudia Puig
USA Today

Leave it to Giamatti to bring gravitas to the fat guy in the red suit; he's naturally the straight man in the sibling duo, but whenever Fred Claus goes for the heartstrings, he's the only one capable of plucking in tune.Full Review

Scott Tobias
The Onion (A.V. Club)
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