Her nephew from out of town (Long) shows up, with his pick-up and his adorable Australian shepherd. Campbell adores her antiquing, cooking and kvetching buddy Jesse and insists she come to Idaho anyway. “We kept the fights clean and the sex dirty, and neither one of us were unfaithful - as far as you know…”īut Mrs. Sean’s ready to move to New York and move on, with his no-big-deal spiel all worked out. The set-up - Jesse’s a Chicago photographer and Petco part-timer hooked up with accountant on the make Sean (Moffat) who dumps her right after his mother’s renewed her invitation to Christmas in Ketchum, Idaho. But one wonders if, along with the f-bombs dropped for shock value, Moffat’s little out-of-nowhere stunt-fart was in that script. Vince Vaughn is one of the credited writers here, so the dialogue’s flip and profane when it isn’t being all sad and stiff. here is to take your typical sappy snowy holiday romance, park “Pitch Perfect” Brittney Snow in it as put-upon and just-dumped by a vulgarian (“SNL” and “Home Economics” vet Alex Moffat) damsel, and have her pursued by his more down-to-Earth cousin (Long), throw in a lot of off-color remarks and jokes at it to see what sticks. “That Wrangler butt’a yours is driving me NUTS!” “Gawd, if you were two years younger we’d have to try NOT to get pregnant.”ĭuffy, playing up the elderly hair-dresser determined to keep sex on a schedule with her retirement-ready accountant husband ( George Wendt) but getting into this banter with the nephew, is just as cute. I mean, Justin Long attempting a folksy drawl as the outdoorsy nephew to his randy aunt ( Julia Duffy) is cute. Yes, there’s amusement in seeing that effort. “Christmas with the Campbells” is a soft-and-squishy Christmas rom-com that tries ever-so-hard to be “edgy” when it oh-so-obviously isn’t.
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