Laden with false climaxes, the overstuffed plot leaves you exhausted well before the movie ends, and the amiable actors sleepwalk through their uninspired roles.

What's interesting about typical Hollywood Christmas movies is that regardless of how crass, vulgar, or mean-spirited they may be, by the last scene they will inevitably try to wrap viewers in a blanket of warm seasonal cheer.

Got any kids who've been naughty this year? Here's their present.

Still as thin as an advent calendar, as dry and overcooked as most Christmas roasts and with jokes even lamer than you'll find in a cracker, 15 years on, Deck has truly cemented its place as one of the all-time festive Hollywood turkeys.