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One, two, three, four wonderful Christmases! Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha!

Kim Hollis: Four Christmases, the Reese Witherspoon/Vince Vaughn Yuletide comedy, earned $46.1 million over five days. How impressed are you by this result?

Brandon Scott: To quote George Costanza, I am blown away. Absolutely blown away. Blown, Jerry!

Scott Lumley: That's a very solid result for a film that I don't think was really on anyone's radar. It's going to be interesting to see what kind of drop this gets next weekend.

Max Braden: I don't know what channel wasn't advertising it, because the Four Christmases trailer was all over my radar like eight massive reindeer. Frank Capra-esque films have their place this time of year, but the real money goes to comedic send-ups of the holiday spirit.

Reagen Sulewski: Thank the almost Pavlovian conditioning of audiences for holiday-themed movies at this time of year. I mean, if only the producers of Gigli had thought of a way to make their movie Christmas-themed, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez might still be together today.

Shane Jenkins: Really guys? I'm not surprised by this at all. The dreck-ier a Christmas movie looks, the better it does, and this looks oh so dreck-y. Even Christmas with the Kranks opened large. This has the benefit of legitimate star power, so I was expecting big things.

David Mumpower: Shane, I used to agree with that line of thinking, but Fred Claus' mediocre $18.5 million had me thinking North American audiences had turned a corner. Given how generic Four Christmases looked, I was relatively certain this one would be a box office non-factor. Frankly, this is the most surprised I've been by a box office result in some time. $47 million for this? Really?





Daron Aldridge: I thought that Reagan's forecast of $40 million over five days was pretty spot-on but I am not surprised that it did a bit more. I credit the marketing for this one. The ads, which I also saw everywhere, didn't misled the audience into thinking it was something it wasn't. Also, I will not apologize for laughing every time I see Jon Favreau punching Vaughn in the chest and pinning him down in the scissor lock. Jon Favreau is having a great year and he could have taken the Jack Black role in Tropic Thunder.

Jason Lee: Given the stench that still emanates from Fred Claus, I was definitely surprised that Four Christmases did as well as it did. I think this due to the fact that Vince Vaughn's brand of comedy requires a strong co-star for it to work. Lacking the type of on-screen chemistry (female or otherwise) that he had in The Break Up or Wedding Crashers, I just don't think he's a draw. That said, between the Sex and the City movie and this one, Warner Bros sure got a good deal in acquiring all of New Line's films.

Jamie Ruccio: I'm baffled by this number. This movie looked no better or worse than Fred Claus. I have no plausible explanation for this. It's not star power, time of year, plot, effects...perhaps marketing but to best Fred Claus by nearly $30 million is very surprising to me.

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