The golden rule of bad Hollywood comedy...

Rating: 3/10 (15 November 2006)

...is that life-lessons must be learnt, and previous bad behaviour must be balanced by soggy sentimental clichés, to make everything okay for "family" audiences everywhere.
Isn't it okay that we laugh at these characters, without them having some kind of redemption to win the audience over? A redemption during which all the jokes come to a screeching halt and the story loses any originality and idiosyncrasy that drew us to it in the first place?
I held out some hope that the director of "Clay Pigeons" might lend some sort of integrity to the project, but it's another Hollywood sell-out. Must go watch "Bad Santa" again to recover... oooh yeah - that's the stuff!