[imdb four christmases]In Blake Snyder’s book “Save the Cat,” he writes about having read this script in its infancy.  My fiance, Dan, and I started speculating on what the poster might look like.  I pictured the poster separated into four sections with the same couple standing in front of four different front doors.  I only bring this up in order to boast that in the preview, there is a tiny clip where the screen is separated into four sections with four different front doors.  Damn straight.

Because I was aware of this movie before it was produced, I do feel a fondness for it.  I also love the roster of actors, from Vince Vaughn to Mary Steenburgen to Jon Voight.  But I also can identify with having four different families.  I think this trailer does a fantastic job of realistically setting up these crazy characters and this semi-surreal situation, while giving us just a little taste of the underlying sweetness that you know the movie will inevitably have.

From the trailer, I get the feeling that the main couple has been together for at least a couple years, but they don’t seem to know anything about one another.  The husband doesn’t know the wife formerly had weight issues, and the wife doesn’t know her husband’s real name.  My curiosity is piqued; do these sorts of revelations only come about when your significant other meets your family, or is this couple just uncommunicative.  This trailer does exactly what it should, make me want to see the film.  I also must say that although I’m not fond of vomit jokes, this has the best one I’ve seen, although that could be due to Vaughn’s delivery.  He is adorable.

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