ScoobyWell Great visuals, story delivers no surprises

ChicRawIdol A brilliant film that helped define a genre

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Salubfoto It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

Tom Rombouts Just saw this on DVD, a little more than a year after it came out. Sure, it is not that "funny" if you are expecting SNL level comedy, but I really enjoyed it. First, I had never heard the song "Christmas Blues" before. Not bad at all. And the later group performance of "Fairytale of New York" (originally by The Pogues from the late 1980's) was just great. (I guess I have to write a little more - right now my review is not long enough for IMDb.) It was interesting to see David Johansen (aka Buster Poindexter) of the New York Dolls. I see that he was also in the 1988 Bill Murray film "Scrooged". And I was not familiar with Jenny Lewis, but she is a very good singer. I got this on a whim, but am really glad that I saw it.

james-360 The trailers were promising, perhaps they should have just marketed the trailer as a short and that would have being that. Hell Bill might have picked up a Grammy or two. Now don't get me wrong I love Bill he's my man ,Hyde Park on the Hudson, Stripes need I say more. I did not fast forward I did not waiver, but I did cringe, I did think of falling or more like jumping off the wagon just to see if I could adjust my perspective . Ms Coppola attempt or lack of it at creating a Christmas classic failed in every aspect. You can read my fellow reviewers comments above and below as I am guessing with time this movie will not mature and grow on you.Unless you a captive of North Korea's penal system, where mandatory viewing of badly made movies is recommended as treatment for dissenting individuals and family's alike. I finials succumbed to the save me from this pile of reindeer poop button on my remote when Ms Coppola took the untouchable classic "Fairytale of New York" originally sung by the Pogues and Kirsty MacColl. And demolished an otherwise undemolishable song, It can be sung anywhere any time by anyone, but Murray and his crew were so bad so awful, I cried the cry no man should cry. God save us from this classic and pray kim il jong's media Dept buys the rights and buries it for all time in some cold and lonely work camp in North Korea. We still love yea Bill Murray.

Michael_Elliott A Very Murray Christmas (2015)** (out of 4)This Christmas special was made for Netflix and when you've got a talented director like Sofia Coppola and a talented actor like Bill Murray you expect much better. The story has Murray set to perform a live Christmas show but NYC has been hit by a major snowstorm so he's worried none of the stars will show up. Not only do we get Murray but we also have Paul Shaffer, Michael Cera, David Johansen, Amy Poehler, Chris Rock, Jason Schwartzman, Miley Cyrus and George Clooney.There are many problems with this 56 minute special but the biggest is the fact that it's simply not funny. While watching the film I couldn't help but wonder what they were even trying to do. Show off a great cast? Perhaps because that's really the only thing that the movie accomplishes. Murray is always fun to watch but he really isn't given much to do here outside of singing some songs, which he adds a nice spin on. Clooney shows up towards the end and while it's fun seeing him in something like this he really isn't given too much to do. The scene-stealer is Cyrus who sings three songs but takes the movie with a wonderful version of Silent Night.

sonofhades I guess every actor makes bad decisions when they are provided with enough money or they owe someone a big favor. Apart from that, I cannot understand why such stars like George Clooney, Bill Murray, Chris Rock and Miley Cyrus + a dozen other actors signed up for this. Sofia Coppola as the director? Just what did Netflix blackmail them with?There is no plot. There is a few lines of dialogue between songs that are mostly sung by people who ought to concentrate their efforts on acting instead of singing. They're not bad at singing, but if you're watching music show, you want to see it performed by the best singers possible, right?I wasted an hour of my life watching this show. There were exactly 2 times where I smiled. That's why I gave this film 2 out of 10.