Hello all, I am the writer and producer. I wanted to reply to the comments here.

In general, I agree. If you sat down to watch this movie with your little kids, and you're expecting a cute Christmas movie - you're going to think that this is the worst movie ever made!

The movie was never intended for kids, grandmas, or the Hallmark crowd. The title "A Dog For Christmas" was forced on me by the original distributor. It's a terrible title, there's no dog in my movie! Same thing with the artwork. I was given no say in the matter. The movie has nothing to do with Santa. But the original distributor did not care, at all.

If you watch the movie for what it is, you might actually like it. So what is it? It is a lower budget version of Christmas Vacation, made for adults who have seen Christmas Vacation twenty times and would like to try something new. Does the movie have a plot? Barely. Does Christmas Vacation have a plot? Barely. Both are movies about having your entire extended family in for Christmas. Both are quite funny and relatable. One (ours) has a much lower budget.

Send the kids to bed. Have some drinks. Enjoy the movie.

I stumbled upon the 2015 Christmas movie titled "A Dog for Christmas" by random chance, though it was titled "Christmas Staycation" here for some reason. Regardless, I opted to sit down and watch the movie given the season and all, and with it being a movie that I hadn't already seen.

And while "A Dog for Christmas" is a Christmas movie, it sort of felt like a watered down attempt of making a movie similar to the "Nation Lampoons Christmas Vacation", except writers Joel Paul Reisig and Scott Voshel didn't manage half the amount of comedy and laughs that the "Nation Lampoons Christmas Vacation" managed. Nor did they manage to create the same amount of contents to the movie that makes it suitable for a yearly viewing in the holiday seasons.

Sure, "A Dog for Christmas" can be seen, but it is the type of movie you will watch only once. And the title of the movie was sort of stupid as the dog part only was in the last minute or so of the movie.

What worked well enough for this movie was the cast, which included Dean Cain - though in a minor role. And also Richard Karn - whom I haven't seen since "Home Improvements".

Ultimately then "A Dog for Christmas" is a Christmas movie that is bound to be forgotten rather quickly, as the storyline is subpar and feels like a poor man's version of "Nation Lampoons Christmas Vacation".

My rating of director Chris Nickin and Joel Paul Reisig's "A Dog for Christmas" lands on a generous three out of ten stars.

So here we are at the bottom of the barrel of Christmas movies. About five minutes into the movie I knew I was either in for a cheesy over the top funny movie or a frustratingly annoying crap fest. Sadly, the latter seems to be more accurate. On prime, the movie was under the title of Christmas Staycation for some odd reason, but something tells me as the movie continues I'm understanding why.

Out of no where, Richard Karn comes in to narrate the movie. At first, I thought the movie had changed because it makes no sense for Richard Karn to come in 7 minutes into the movie. Usually the narrators start the movie. That way you know there's going to be a narrator, but abruptly out of no where he shows up dressed as Santa to narrate a movie that doesn't need narration. I haven't watched the entire movie yet, but I'm getting the feeling they added in Richard Kern to change what the movie is about. I think someone realized the movie has little to do with the title and they needed someone to narrate to better explain what's going on.

A few minutes later I realized I was watching a Christmas Vacation ripoff and not a good one. If their going to ripoff a Christmas classic, at least have the decency to get it right. The longer the movie went on the less the movie made sense. So let me get this right, the family is showing up soon, yet, they go downtown to skate, they don't have the Christmas tree up and they are not ready for family what's so ever and why, that way they can set up the movie to be one stressful event after the other.

They start setting up the tree. First the wife wants it's an inch from the fireplace, then in front of the walk way and then where the chair was. As if they haven't ever figured out the proper place for the darn tree. Eventually the family shows up and every one of them is truly annoying. Okay, I get where this movie is going. Everything is a problem, every person is obnoxious and the movie is going to be a succession of moments where people make things annoyingly difficult for no reason at all. That can work when it's actually funny. There's nothing funny about a 14 year old kid getting stuck in a chimney, yet the house from the outside doesn't have a chimney! Where's the chimney, who knows?

When Dean Kane appeared on screen it became apparent they spent the movies budget on 90s t.v. Stars. Which, so far are the only highlights. But wait... there's more 90s tv stars coming.

I'm almost 40 minutes into the movie and what the movie is about, a girl wanting a dog, has only been mentioned twice. For maybe a total of a minute of screen time. So much for the movie being about a dog.

I'm not going to talk about every stupid thing that happens in this movie. Ill just say it, the movie is awful.