Candy Cane Lane (2023)

January 9, 2024 10:53 AM

[TRAILER] Chris Carver (Eddie Murphy), determined to win the neighborhood's annual Christmas decorating contest, makes a pact with an elf (Jillian Bell) to help him win. However, the elf casts a spell bringing the twelve days of Christmas to life, bringing chaos to the small, unsuspecting town.

Also stars Tracee Ellis Ross, Genneya Walton, Thaddeus J. Mixson, Nick Offerman, Chris Redd, Robin Thede, David Alan Grier, Ken Marino, Timothy Simons.

Directed by Reginald Hudlin (House Party). Written by a malevolent AI.

46% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.

An Amazon Prime original.

posted by DirtyOldTown (5 comments total)

This settles in at the tier where it's not total dogshit and it will probably hang around for decades, but insisting it's good at all will require a contrarian hot take.

Shelve this next to Deck the Halls, below even the trashy guilty pleasures shelf with Jingle All the Way.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 10:55 AM on January 9, 2024

This was marginally watchable Christmas dreck. Which is fine, dreck is kinda what I expect from 99% of Christmas movies and marginally watchable is well above the average unwatchable Christmas dreck. I wouldn't sit through it a second time though.
posted by fimbulvetr at 11:28 AM on January 9, 2024

I found it near unwatchable personally though I will admit I really am not the target audience for this. The biggest surprise, well maybe not a surprise more disappointment, was that the "Cockney" cabbie was played by Nick Offerman. Why? Surely you could have found someone British or at least someone able to do a passable accent? I like Offerman but accents are not one of his strengths.
posted by Ashwagandha at 11:33 AM on January 9, 2024 [3 favorites]

Ooh, I love a good cock-er-ney accent Meewy Pawpins! Maybe I'll watch the Offerman scenes.
posted by rhamphorhynchus at 9:43 AM on January 10, 2024

We got about 35m into it, then had to do something else - and never returned to finish it ...
posted by rozcakj at 10:15 AM on January 19, 2024