The Town That Banned Christmas

2.8
20061h 25m

The competition heats up at the annual Greenlawn Christmas Decorating Contest when Norbert Bridges moves to town and stirs up trouble with the reigning champion Donnie Manning. But when the town outlaws Christmas after things get out of control it s up to the feuding neighbors to save Christmas.

Cast

Photo of Matt McCoy

Matt McCoy

Norbert Bridges

Photo of Jane Sibbett

Jane Sibbett

Madeline Bridges

Photo of Adam Ferrara

Adam Ferrara

Donnie Manning

Photo of Carol Alt

Carol Alt

Irene Manning

Photo of Anne Ramsay

Anne Ramsay

Claudia Walden

Photo of Kevin Dotcom Brown

Kevin Dotcom Brown

Cleveland Tyrell

Photo of Vinny Vella

Vinny Vella

Judge Jeremiah

Photo of Hunter Gomez

Hunter Gomez

Kevin Bridges

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Reviews

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r96sk

5/10

What an odd film.

Literally every inch of this film points to it being deserving of the lowest of ratings. The acting is wooden at best, the title is ill-fitting, the direction is awful and the dialogue is poor. Yet, it kinda works in a weird, basement level sorta way?

I'm not saying it's good, I didn't enjoy it, but once the credits rolled I didn't feel anything negative towards it - which is a surprise, given the aforementioned. It does everything so averagely, that it pretty much levels out to create a poor but not terrible film - at least in my opinion.

I have little to no praise of it though. Some of the humour is alright, I guess. Matt McCoy and Adam Ferrara are the 'picks' of the cast, though that's just down to process of elimination. The (UK - US have a different one?) title is slightly misleading, given only a short snippet of this has anything to do with the banning of Christmas.

Overall, 'The Town That Banned Christmas' is all rather poor. I'm just surprised I didn't hate it.

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