The name makes no sense
I read the original name "All Lit Up" would have made more sense, but of course the Hollyweird mechanism doesn't allow a 'Christ-Mass movie' to have any original name, it MUST be some verse from, or title of a well-known 'Christmas Carol' song or something. SIGH!
Deck the Halls? WHAT HALLS? This guy is 'decking' the outside of his whole house, while stealing electricity from his neighbour, which SHOULD earn him a lawsuit, or at least he should reduce the car payment that way, or whatnot.
I don't know, this movie is so weird, but even the nastiness seems worse because there's no Jim Carrey's eccentrism to make it at least somewhat funny.
I have a new respect for 'The Cable Guy', and I never thought I could say that..