This Christmas Preview

So yeah… another holiday related comedy movie with some drama mixed in. This Christmas is about a family who hasn’t spent a Christmas with each other in years but once they do get back together all hell breaks loose. This Christmas features Chris Brown (yes, the R&B singer) and Regina King, who had a role in Ray as Margie Hendricks, and is directed by Preston Whitmore, who directed the embarrassment that was Crossover before taking the directing role in This Christmas.

This Christmas is based around the Whitfield family and the first time in four years that all of the siblings have come back for Christmas. Once the tree is set up and trimmed and the lights are set up, all of the family’s baggage that they brought with them is let out. Once this baggage is revealed, it tests the strength of the family’s bonds. Going through this challenging Christmas is what teachers the Whitfields the true meaning of the word family.

Although this is labeled as a dramedy, it sounds like the laughs in this movie are going to be rare and far apart. Past experiences with Preston Whitmore as director also doesn’t make this movie sound very promising. The storyline sounds like the same old story for all holiday season movies, but the good ones always have some type of twist. But I just don’t see it coming from This Christmas. There also seems to be a severe lack of details about the movie which also worries me a lot. Where ever I looked, there would just be information about the cast and a very short synopsis of the movie. Could the production company be hiding something? I guess we’ll see on November 21. Overall, I really would not waste my time with this movie. All the ingredients just can’t add up well(I’m talking about the mediocre “actors”, the director, and the lack luster storyline). I can see this movie ending up exactly like Preston Whitfield’s previous directing attempt.