<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/430e2b9e-fe34-4360-96d4-f69574b318ce/4A746385-8D82-4B96-9E39-C8E119ECD4D7/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://movies.nytimes.com/2007/11/09/movies/09fred.html" href="http://movies.nytimes.com/2007/11/09/movies/09fred.html" style="font-size: 11px;">movies.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://movies.nytimes.com/2007/11/09/movies/09fred.html"><H1 class="movie">Fred Claus (2007)</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://movies.nytimes.com/2007/11/09/movies/09fred.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/movies.nytimes.com/img/E4023E8B-C8D2-4E55-A68D-B3797D943589" alt="Fred Claus" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://movies.nytimes.com/2007/11/09/movies/09fred.html"><H1>The Dependent Claus</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://movies.nytimes.com/2007/11/09/movies/09fred.html"><P>Given the tasty cocktail of self-amusement and self-contempt that <A href="http://movies.nytimes.com/person/225542/Vince-Vaughn?inline=nyt-per">Vince Vaughn</A> brings to almost every on-screen party, it seemed possible that this was one guy who would just say no to Merry Christmas. Forget it: <A href="http://movies.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=345270&inline=nyt_ttl">“Fred Claus”</A> is a tacky would-be comedy about family dysfunction that fronts some Scrooge attitude only to dissolve into slobbering sentimentality and canned uplift. Neither here nor there, the film is <A href="http://movies.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=285899&inline=nyt_ttl">“Elf”</A> without the goofy jokes, <A href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/f/will_ferrell/index.html?inline=nyt-per">Will Ferrell</A> or heart, <A href="http://movies.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=285775&inline=nyt_ttl">“Bad Santa”</A> without the smut, <A href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/t/billy_bob_thornton/index.html?inline=nyt-per">Billy Bob Thornton</A> or spleen. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://movies.nytimes.com/2007/11/09/movies/09fred.html"><P>Mainly it’s a lackadaisical mess, though one graced with welcome talent, including <A href="http://movies.nytimes.com/person/26680/Paul-Giamatti?inline=nyt-per">Paul Giamatti</A> and <A href="http://movies.nytimes.com/person/60083/Miranda-Richardson?inline=nyt-per">Miranda Richardson</A>. (Here’s hoping these indie stalwarts pocketed decent studio checks for keeping their gifts in idle.) Mr. Vaughn plays Fred Claus, the disgruntled eldest brother of Nicholas Claus a k a Santa Claus a k a St. Nick a k a Mr. Giamatti, wearing a fat suit and snowy clouds of hair and beard. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4A746385-8D82-4B96-9E39-C8E119ECD4D7/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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