Reception
Rotten Tomatoes ranked the film 91st in the 100 worst reviewed films of the 2000s, with a rating of 7%. It was also nominated for three Razzie Awards, including Worst Picture, Worst Actor (Ben Affleck; also for Jersey Girl) and Worst Screenplay.
Writing in Entertainment Weekly, Lisa Schwarzbaum panned, "Really, critics and audiences ought to turn thoughts and wallets discreetly away from Surviving Christmas, ignoring the sight as if Santa had just stepped in droppings from Donner and Blitzen." In The New York Times, Stephen Holden concluded, "This is a film that perversely refuses to trust its own comic instincts. Perhaps out of a fear of not having enough jokes, it throws in extra subplots and unnecessary characters to keep the pace frantic and the action muddled."
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