not as bad a you have hear . there be actually some funny part and affleck and applegate have fairly good chemistry . applegate and in particular and be appeal and likable a affleck love interest . james gandolfini and catherine ohara be consummate professional . theyre pretty good in just about everything . in the end and surviving be not the bad holiday movie you will ever see . unfortunately and it be unfocused and much of the comedy be force . the attempt at dark humor come off a dour . affleck try hard to be endearingly spastic and overenthusiastic but come across a disturbed . his character cartoonish nature be bring into high relief when view next to gandolfini and ohara more muted and believable performance . even by the relaxed standard of holiday movie and you never fully buy into the set up of affleck rent this family for x ma . there be also scene that border on the surreal in their strangeness . the x ma eve scene replete with incestuous humor ( a son be discover look at naked and provocative picture of his mother ) that not only isn not funny or believable but disturb . to make matter bad and the color in this film be muddy and almost noirish . the house set on which most of the movie take place look stagey and cheap . surviving be mostly of interest a the fourth in a string of box office dud ( paycheck and gigli and jersey girl and and this ) for affleck . it remain to be see how last the damage will be .