Before I even start this review, I want to say how much I hate that this is the promotional picture for Merry Liddle Christmas. This has very little to do with the actual story of the movie. Let’s just get into this.

Jacquie (Kelly Rowland) is a successful tech entrepreneur, who is selling her business. In order to nab a new position that she wants, she invites her entire family to celebrate Christmas at her house so that a film crew can make a video of their happy celebrations. Hilarity ensues.

This whole movie barely makes sense. It would have been perfectly fine as a sort of National Lampoon-ish type of thing. Instead of trying to make it funny, almost all of the characters are selfish and unbearable. Jacquie gets mad when anyone messes up her house or her to-the-minute plans. There’s her younger sister’s untrained dog, neither of the kids are particularly well behaved (well, the infant is well behaved!) and no one steps in to correct their behavior, the family matriarch is unwilling to change any of their past traditions to accommodate new ones….pretty much everything that can go wrong does. It’s kind of annoying, to be honest.

Oh, and the romance! That gets jammed in because Jacquie’s niece asks where her “real family” is. Yes, the child actually says that she needs a husband and kids to have a real family. And the kid’s dad, who is sitting right next to her when these words leave her mouth, does nothing to tell her that Jacquie doesn’t need a husband or kids. She has a family. An ungrateful one that destroys her house.

Should you watch this? No. Absolutely not. Go watch Christmas Vacation instead.