It does stand out in one area, offering more product placement than any movie in recent memory. It's all very sad.

Reginald Hudlin’s film is self-aware, but it’s very broad and in trying to do too much achieves little.

The best scenes have nothing to do with Christmas, such as Chris and Carol expressing their love and support for each other, and the children telling their father that he’s parenting for himself not them.

Candy Cane Lane feels like a film ripped straight out of the late 90s and early 2000s. I should know, because that’s when I was a kid and watched this exact type of bad live-action comedy on repeat and instantly forgot them until my next viewing.