Paradise is just such a small town, where everything is incredibly neat and everyone is incredibly nice.

Who should arrive in this (too) perfect little community on Christmas Eve but three hopeless hoods: brothers Bill, Dave and Alvin Firpo (Nicolas Cage, Jon Lovitz and Dana Carvey), the latter two newly out of jail.

They are on a mission to find the daughter of a fellow jailbird, Sarah (Mädchen Amick), who lives in the town.

That done, they rob the town bank, but all manner of circumstances prevent them making a getaway.

Although Cage and Co do their best and some of the sequences and lines are quite funny, the film tries to go in too many directions at once and outstays its welcome.