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List Price: $26.98 | | Label: 20th Century Fox
Salesrank: 45
Released: November 17, 2009 |
| Our Price: $17.06 |
| Used Price: $17.99 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Ho, ho, heyooo! Christmas is upon us and the Paddy's gang has got the spirit. Well, not really. For them, the holidays have always been a time of trickery, backstabbing, and disappointment. But this year things are going to be different as they are determined to rediscover the joy in Christmas. Join Mac, Charlie, Dennis, Dee and Frank as they embark on a holiday adventure filled with stolen toys, childhood videos, naked elves, and a bloody run in with Santa Claus that is guaranteed to blast Christmas spirit all over you!
- Audio: English: Dolby Surround
- Language: Dubbed: English / Subtitled: English, French & Spanish
- Theatrical Aspect Ratio: Widescreen: 1.78:1
- Forced Trailers
- Special Features
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Its A Very Sunny Christmas Reviews:
Very Funny Christmas Special 
2009-12-10 - I'm a huge fan of this show so when I heard they were releasing a christmas special I immediately went out and bought it. The episode itself was hilarious and very well written. More cursing,blood and crazy antics we have come to expect from the gang.A big highlight was the claymation scene where Frank is brutally murdered by the gang for being such a jerk.One star is deducted for length of the episode(only 44 minutes)and cost of DVD. For that little amount of time it should have cost like ten bucks or something. They also should have had more special features than they did.Much better for a rent than a buy but still effin hilarious.
Worth it
2009-12-10 - There are several laugh out loud moments in this Christmas special. It's definitely funnier than any episode I've seen this season.
Cost less at Target this week 
2009-12-10 - Just paid $16.99 at Target for it. It is on sale this week. Can't wait to watch it. This is one of my absolute favorite shows!
Best show on television.
2009-12-09 - Still very original. If you like Seinfeld or Curb Your Enthusiasm, you should check this out.
Hosed for the Holidays
2009-12-08 -
It's mid-November. That may not seem like an exciting time on the calendar.
Good.
That's just the way I like it. Nothing to worry about until Thanksgiving, and even then, if you suck at cooking like I do and don't have any children to haul to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, you may have to pick up some beer and wash some dishes. However, marketing geniuses in the retail world have caught on to this euphoric lull, and began a quest to start Christmas joy before Halloween. As if seeing Santa at the end of the Thanksgiving parade wasn't bad enough.
F**kers.
So, when I heard It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia was releasing a Christmas Special DVD, I was a little annoyed. Don't get me wrong, I was just as annoyed at seeing Jim Carrey's Christmas Carol in 3-D Disney Awesomeness in theaters beginning last Thursday. I don't even do 12 days of Christmas, unless you count shopping days. A week before Christmas, I pop Bill Murray's Scrooged into the DVD player, and don't take it out except for a viewing of Gremlins, Bad Santa, Nightmare Before Christmas, and The Ref. There are others, but those are the main seasonal movies in my world.
So where, or when, does A Very Sunny Christmas fit into the holidays? Right now, actually, before you really want to get into the Christmas spirit, and would rather whine about it. Or maybe just the week after Thanksgiving.
The story is of the normal Sunny style. It's Christmas-time at Paddy's Pub, and the gang is getting into the Christmas spirit, or out of it. Dennis(Glenn Howerton) and Dee Reynolds(Kaitlin Olson) are pissed at their "childhood father" Frank(Danny DeVito) because he has repetitively, and purposefully, screwed them over on presents every Christmas, and manages to one-up himself this year. Mac(Rob McElhenney) is pissed because he found out his family spent every Christmas robbing other families. Charlie(Charlie Day) is pissed because he found out multiple Santa Clauses banged his mom. Everyone is pissed at Charlie for wearing a ridiculous Christmas sweater. Wait, that was me.
Mac and Charlie go out into the city of Philly to rekindle their Christmas spirit. Meanwhile, Dennis and Dee resort to creating their own, extremely lackadaisical Christmas Carol story in order to get Frank to change his ways and buy them something, anything, for the holidays. Through these trials, the gang learns how to come together as a family, overcome trials of the world as well as the heart, and love one another, unconditionally.
Yeah, and Robert Goulet is going to spring out of my ass alive and well, singing "Silver Bells."
The main thing about this DVD is that it is the Christmas you would have imagined these characters having. It's funny, it's dark, it makes you feel like a better human being for not being this way, and worse for laughing at it. This is what It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia is all about. Some of the greatest moments are seeing Frank stumble around an office party naked, Charlie attacking a Santa Claus, and a claymation segment that will forever scar your enjoyment of claymation Christmas specials like Rudolph saving Christmas with help from Hermey, The Bumble, and the California Raisins.
The special features aren't too bad. The Young Mac and Charlie deleted scenes are nothing great, showing why they were deleted. The Making Of featurette(a word which I hate with a passion) is funny to watch once or twice, as Fred Savage attempts to gain some time in front of the camera. The crown jewel of the extras is the Sing-A-Long. Play this Sing-A-Long on Christmas Eve, and you are guaranteed to be disowned by your family at the end of those 10 minutes.
The main question is, "Is it worth buying for $17?" I'd say yes, but if you have a chance to borrow it from a friend and forget to bring it back to him or her, do it. It must be watched in any way possible.
