In an attempt to spend Christmas with his estranged family, Boyd Mitchler, a young married man, has left for his family, but in his way, he remembers that he has forgotten the prizes of his sons at home, the thing that brings terrible for him, as he races with time, in order to go back and bring the presents within 8 hours, but he faces many challenges.
If you've seen a Christmas movie made in the last 30 or 40 years, then you've seen A Merry Friggin' Christmas. It's a Gatling gun of holiday movie clichés played out by a cast of characters that almost do a disservice to the term "broad stereotype."
[A] dysfunctional family holiday comedy that squanders the talents of its impressive cast who presumably signed on merely to work with the comedy legend.
The makers of "A Merry Friggin' Christmas" sprung for the fancy wrapping but skimped on the gift inside. How else to explain the gathering of such a talented and likable cast in service of such undercooked, utterly laugh-free material?
Whereas Bad Santa was nastier and riskier, as well as more mischievously winsome, A Merry Friggin' Christmas is as curiously timid as it is morally dubious.
