after watch this movie on a boring saturday afternoon and i couldn not quite figure out why so many people like it . it wasn not heartwarming or clever while it be merely an amalgam of every other mismatched people come together during a holiday and despite their ideological difference learn something about each other movie ever make . the character be a stereotype bouillabaisse we have the black and the hispanic and the jew and the asian and and the homosexual and they never do anything except what everyone expect character in a movie like this to do . the black mother declare that it all right and then when it mention that another black character be at church instead of help prepare dinner ( because all black love church ) and the hispanic seem only capable of speak spanish when the greet each other or make exclamation and the lesbian do nothing but cuddle and kiss ( and one of them wear a bandanna . because all lesbian dress like ani difranco ) and and the vietnamese family own a video store . in l. a. imagine that . oh and and the movie be call what cooking because each ethnic family cook a different version of what they think thanksgiving dinner should be . the black mother want cornbread and macaroni and cheese and the hispanic be show rolling tortilla and the vietnamese family be deep fry spring roll while i be surprise there wasn not a bottle of manischewitz on the jewish table . this be all show via the time honored tradition of the musical montage and where they play the surfari wipeout and rapidly switch the instrument use in the melody to reflect the respective culture . isn not that cute . anyway and once the director be finish establish how different everyone be and he attempt to show the inner humanity that we and a all people of every race and religion and culture share and by invent implausible and overly dramatic conflict for each of the family to deal with . it would be a plot killer to mention what each of these conflict be and but rest assure that they be indeed surprise and that be if you have be sleep for the first half of the movie . the theme of disgrace the family run pretty strong throughout . all in all and if youre the type of person who enjoy those new fangled movie that revolve around the story of unlikely character intertwine and well and you still would not like this movie . if you like extended montage of food be pass around a table and then you need to put this in your netflix queue . but if stereotype and clichés be endear to you and then make sure you ask for this for christmas . or hanukkah . or kwanzaa .