History Film / DeckTheHalls

* Chickification: Steve's daughter Madison starts off with a rebellious goth punk image but hanging with the Hall twins has her acting increasingly like a bimbo, eventually joining them in their sexy Santa dance routine.

* JustEatGilligan: At one point, Steve is suspects Hall is stealing his power to, well, power his massive Christmas Lights display, as he keeps getting power surges and the like. Much later in the film, he goes to look at his fuse box and, sure enough, there's a huge plug with a cord running to Hall's house. Why he didn't think to simply ''walk around and check his fuse box'' before then is a mystery (the cord is obscured by the snow, explaining why he didn't see it, but that still doesn't explain the first part.)

* JustEatGilligan: At one point, Finch is suspects Hall is stealing his power to, well, power his massive Christmas Lights display, as he keeps getting power surges and the like. Much later in the film, he goes to look at his fuse box and, sure enough, there's a huge plug with a cord running to Hall's house. Why he didn't think to simply ''walk around and check his fuse box'' before then is a mystery (the cord is obscured by the snow, explaining why he didn't see it, but that still doesn't explain the first part.)

* SurpriseIncest: Both Finch and Buddy show attraction towards the three dancers wearing SexySantaDress. However, they are then disgusted when they realize that they are their daughters.

* ApatheticCitizens: A particularly egregious example. Aside from Steve's family, no one is seemingly bothered at all by Buddy's obnoxious display, even after he intentionally ramps it UpToEleven to stick it to Steve. Even then, Steve's family isn't affected by all the lights or noise either. Hell, Steve doesn't do anything when he finds out Buddy is stealing his power, he makes no effort to really stop it. The last two could be Justified by the rest of Steve's family getting on well enough with Buddy's and tolerating it and Steve just giving up on competing with Buddy any further, but the first example goes unexplained.

* KarmaHoudini: Played with; Steve and Buddy both eventually come back to their senses and make everything up to their families, but both now have extensive criminal records on their hands with both having disrupted the neighborhood, caused massive amounts of property damage, and on Buddy's end has committed acts of theft and forgery just to sabotage Steve. ''Both are let off scot-free''.

Creator/MatthewBroderick stars as Dr. Steve Finch, an eye doctor with a wife, Kelly (Creator/KristinDavis) and two children, a teenaged daughter named Madison (Alia Shawcat), and a preteen son named Carter (Dylan Blue). Steve is adamant about his Christmas traditions, even to the point of it doing more harm than good for his family and everybody else involved. His Christmas tradition plans start spiraling down the tubes when his new neighbor, Buddy Hall (Creator/DannyDeVito) along with his wife, Tia (Creator/KristinChenoweth) and two twin daughters Emily (Creator/KellyAldridge) and Ashley (Creator/SabrinaAldridge) move in to the only home just across the street. Buddy's daughters have discovered and shown him that you can view houses from space with a place called "My Earth" which is very much like "Google Earth." He is upset, though, that for some reason, their house doesn't appear, even though the Finches house does.

''Deck the Halls'' is a 2006 Christmas comedy film directed by Creator/JohnWhitesell and starring Matthew Broderick and Danny Devito

Creator/MatthewBroderick stars as Dr. Steve Finch, an eye doctor with a wife, Kelly (Creator/KristinDavis) and two children, a teenaged daughter named Madison (Alia Shawcat), and a preteen son named Carter (Dylan Blue). Steve is adamant about his Christmas traditions, even to the point of it doing more harm than good for his family and everybody else involved. His Christmas tradition plans start spiraling down the tubes when his new neighbor, Buddy Hall (Creator/DannyDeVito) along with his wife, Tia (Creator/KristinChenoweth) and two twin daughters Emily (Creator/KellyAldridge) and Ashley (Creator/SabrinaAldridge) move in to the only home just across the street. Buddy's daughters have discovered and show him that you can view houses from space with a place called "My Earth" which is very much like "Google Earth." He is upset, though, that for some reason, their house doesn't appear, even though the Finches house does.

* BrainBleach: Before their skating contest, Steve and Buddy are watching together a spectacle with three pretty girls in SexySantaDress doing a dance and are getting quite excited by them... until they realize that it's their respective daughters on the scene, to their horror. Cut to the both of them in church washing their eyes with holy water.

* AllergicToRoutine: Buddy. He's amazingly talented and can excel at any job he works, but he quickly gets bored, quits, and moves the family somewhere new, racking up huge amounts of debt in the process.

It could be that their house has not been there very long and there never was a new satellite picture update taken of that place since. So, contrary to ones who would prefer privacy and that their homes remain unable to be captured by satellite, Buddy gets this obsession about wanting to get their house visible from space. So, Buddy gets this crazy idea that to get their house visible from space, he would have to garnish their home with Christmas lights. From that point on, because of how the bright lights and his whole showy Christmas display he goes as far as gets to Steve and even worse disrupt his intended Christmas traditions, things go for the worse between Buddy and Steve even to the point of practically wrecking their relationship as new neighbors. And much to their annoyed wives the only question is will they ever be able to patch that up?

Creator/MatthewBroderick stars as Dr. Steve Finch, an eye doctor with a wife, Kelly (Creator/KristinDavis) and two children, a teenaged daughter named Madison (Alia Shawcat), and a preteen son named Carter (Dylan Blue). Steve is adamant about his Christmas traditions, even to the point of it doing more harm than good for his family and everybody else involved. His Christmas tradition plans start spiraling down the tubes when his new neighbor, Buddy Hall (Creator/DannyDeVito) along with his wife, Tia (Creator/KristinChenoweth) and two twin daughters Emily (Kelly Aldridge) and Ashley (Sabrina Aldridge) move in to the only home just across the street. Buddy's daughters have discovered and show him that you can view houses from space with a place called "My Earth" which is very much like "Google Earth." He is upset, though, that for some reason, their house doesn't appear, even though the Finches house does.

* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Film/ChristmasWithTheKranks'' ...for mainly the wrong reasons.

* BrainBleach: Before the skating contest, Steve and Buddy are watching together a spectacle with three pretty girls in SexySantaDress and are getting quite excited by it... until they realize that it's their respective daughters on the scene, to their dismay. Cut to the both of them in church washing their eyes with holy water.

* CurseCutShort: In front of a bunch of people, Buddy announces that even as bright as he has already made his house, that he is nowhere near done. Steve responds with "Oh really!? Jesus!" Then with the whole town looking at him like he is a straight man of integrity who just cursed and with him getting that feeling, he instantly covers it up with saying "Christ the Lord is born this Christmas morning." Making it look like he was singing it as a compliment. This could also be considered as GettingCrapPastTheRadar.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: When Tia needs help putting up a decoration, she asks for a boost from Kelly who does so with her hands on Tia's butt. Tia seems to enjoy it a little too much.

* UglyGuyHotWife: Tia, played by the lovely Kristin Chenoweth to Danny [=DeVito=]'s Buddy.

!!''Deck the Halls'' provides examples of the following tropes:

* ApatheticCitizens: A particularly egregious example. Aside from Steve's family, no one is seemingly bothered at all by Buddy's obnoxious display, even after he intentionally ramps it UpToEleven to stick it to Steve. Even then, Steve's family isn't affected by all the lights or noise either. Hell, Steve doesn't do anything when he finds out Buddy is stealing his power, he makes no effort to really stop it. The last two could be Justified by the rest of Steve's family getting on well enough with Buddy's and tolerating it and Steve just giving up on competing with Buddy any further, but the first example goes unexplained.

* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Film/ChristmasWithTheKranks''[[invoked]][[DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible ...for mainly the wrong reasons]].

** Steve could have had Buddy arrested for Forging his name on a document and stealing the town's Christmas tree, but doesn't due to his pride blinding him as Buddy convinces him to make a wager on a race.

* JustEatGilligan: At one point Finch is suspects Hall is stealing his power to, well, power his massive Christmas Lights display, as he keeps getting power surges and the like. Much later in the film, he goes to look at his fuse box and, sure enough, there's a huge plug with a cord running to Hall's house. Why he didn't think to simply ''walk around and check his fuse box'' before then is a mystery (the cord is obscured by the snow, explaining why he didn't see it, but that still doesn't explain the first part.)

Creator/MatthewBroderick stars as Dr. Steve Finch, an eye doctor with a wife, Kelly (Creator/KristinDavis) and two children, a teenaged daughter named Madison (Alia Shawcat), and a preteen son named Carter (Dylan Blue). Steve is adamant about his Christmas traditions, even to the point of it doing more harm than good for his family and everybody else involved. His Christmas tradition plans start spiraling down the tubes when his new neighbor, Buddy Hall (Creator/DannyDeVito) along with his wife, Tia (Creator/KristinChenoweth) and two twin daughters Emily (Kelly Aldridge) and Ashley (Sabrina Aldridge) move in to the only home just across the street. Buddy's daughters have discovered and show him that you can view houses from space with a place called "My Earth" which is very much like "Google Earth." He is upset, though, that for some reason, their house doesn't appear, even though the Finches house does. It could be that their house has not been there very long and there never was a new satellite picture update taken of that place since. So, contrary to ones who would prefer privacy and that their homes remain unable to be captured by satellite, Buddy gets this obsession about wanting to get their house visible from space. So, Buddy gets this crazy idea that to get their house visible from space, he would have to garnish their home with Christmas lights. From that point on, because of how the bright lights and his whole showy Christmas display he goes as far as gets to Steve and even worse disrupt his intended Christmas traditions, things go for the worse between Buddy and Steve even to the point of practically wrecking their relationship as new neighbors. And much to their annoyed wives the only question is will they ever be able to patch that up?

* JustEatGilligan: At one point Finch is suspects Hall is stealing his power to, well, power his massive Christmas Lights display, as he keeps getting power surges and the like. Much later in the film, he goes to look at his fuse box and, sure enough, there's a huge plug with a cord running to Hall's house. Why he didn't think to simply ''walk around and check his fuse box'' before then is a mystery (the cord is obscured by the snow, explaining why he didn't see it, but that still doesn't explain the first part.)