...I'm in shock at these reviews. Where is the holiday spirit, oh my goodness. You people take yourselves too seriously. This is a TV movie, and a holiday one, AND a family friendly one. Each of those genres already separately guarantee moderate budgets and cheesy movies. This film is all of those genres "wrapped" together (wrapped, excuse the Christmas gift pun). If you watch Reel One, Marvista, Johnson Production Group, etc companies on Ion, Hallmark, Lifetime etc networks, then you are familiar with these types of movies so there should be no "throwing up" here at what's endearing, light hearted cheesiness. If you want something deeper, sexier, cooler, edgier, or "higher quality" then watch a top 10 Hollywood movie or an Oscar snubbed foreign film and take your nasty Grinch, Scrooge axxxxx with you and don't slam the door too hard so you don't break everyone else's warm, toasty, cinnamon and vanilla scented gingerbread house either.
Of course I now can't watch the movie without laughing, however, when I remember some of the nasty reviews saying "the old neighbor saying 'this song is my JAM!' and dancing" made them "throw up." I'm rather laughing at the unbelievable misanthropy, rather than agreeing with them.
Also, the decor is honestly the best I've seen for a holiday movie (so far, I have 30 more days until the holiday season is officially over mid-January and 30 more days to discover dozens of new holiday movies!). Every-single-inch of this movie set and every-single-frame had a Christmas decoration or Christmas wardrobe/makeup/colors!!! Reds, and greens, and golds, and plaid prints on scarves and on cocoa mugs, and toy soldiers and toy elves and toy santas/plushy decorations, and lights twinkling and city scenery like being inside a snow globe, and Christmas wreaths, and pretty dresses and handsome suits that matched the themed mise en scene, and festive wrapping papers or holiday wallpapers and streamers and tinsel, and trinkets and gold sparkly, glittery jewelry and adornments literally everywhere. Not one scene or frame failed to enlighten the holiday cheer. I mean just LOOK at the film poster!! It's beautiful! Rich deep red here, rich deep green there, just gorgeous and wintry! And it isn't a Christmas movie without baking or characters decorating cute Christmas cookies, which there also was here. There were happy, jovial harp plucks, romantic soft pianos, and orchestral violin strings throughout too as background music. It was enchanting, delightful, whimsical, beautiful, nostalgic, jolly, uplifting, fun, etc. Which I really appreciate.
I discovered this film a week ago and ever since I've replayed this movie everyday in full maybe three to five times to feel better and ready for Christmas. Other Christmas movies are typical or make me feel excluded--perfect girl, perfect guy, perfect family, perfect house, perfect path to a perfect romance, perfect ending. This movie was quirky, and everyone is kind of normal despite the abnormal fanciful situation.
(Now for the things I don't like: I do agree though, the main actress's fake skin tanner and lipstick in one scene honestly was distracting. But it wasn't THAT bad, just at first sight each of these things required getting used to for a bit.
The stalker stuff was silly but I laughed because the silliness tickles my inner child, which you need during the holidays.
There was one scene where the song was playing while the main actress was playing a loud instrument in the hallway to upset her now stalker neighbor, and they didn't mute the instrument, which they should have. They muted everything else in the same scene... but not the instrument. It wasn't nice on the ears. We can see the instrument, we don't need to hear it while the soundtrack is playing loud and jamboree style too. But the reviews here whining that her tactics such as this instrument were "mean spirited" are still...ridiculous. She's not being MEAN, she's being desperate to turn her stalker off her. I related to it, to be honest. If you don't want someone to like you, then offend them, annoy them, or disgust them.
Also, the main actress's onscreen best friend seemed like she was trying to be funny.
Finally, the next door neighbor was old and elderly and therefore stereotyped as some kind of fairy godmother which was random. I also think they made the neighbor extra old compared to the main actress to make the main actress seem less old herself because without the elderly neighbor, the main actress looks middle aged when I think her character is a normal promoted career woman, which gears towards 30s age.)
Anywho, screw you guys, I've now been singing the theme song "Wish This Christmas" and "Rockin' Holiday" randomly around the house while making cocoa this holiday. "Make a wish this Christmas. Make it loud and wish it true." LOL. "Mom on the left, Dad on the right, it's a rockin' holiday...rockin holiday!" HA!
I give this film a big YAY and a HAPPY HOLIDAY!!!
Of course I now can't watch the movie without laughing, however, when I remember some of the nasty reviews saying "the old neighbor saying 'this song is my JAM!' and dancing" made them "throw up." I'm rather laughing at the unbelievable misanthropy, rather than agreeing with them.
Also, the decor is honestly the best I've seen for a holiday movie (so far, I have 30 more days until the holiday season is officially over mid-January and 30 more days to discover dozens of new holiday movies!). Every-single-inch of this movie set and every-single-frame had a Christmas decoration or Christmas wardrobe/makeup/colors!!! Reds, and greens, and golds, and plaid prints on scarves and on cocoa mugs, and toy soldiers and toy elves and toy santas/plushy decorations, and lights twinkling and city scenery like being inside a snow globe, and Christmas wreaths, and pretty dresses and handsome suits that matched the themed mise en scene, and festive wrapping papers or holiday wallpapers and streamers and tinsel, and trinkets and gold sparkly, glittery jewelry and adornments literally everywhere. Not one scene or frame failed to enlighten the holiday cheer. I mean just LOOK at the film poster!! It's beautiful! Rich deep red here, rich deep green there, just gorgeous and wintry! And it isn't a Christmas movie without baking or characters decorating cute Christmas cookies, which there also was here. There were happy, jovial harp plucks, romantic soft pianos, and orchestral violin strings throughout too as background music. It was enchanting, delightful, whimsical, beautiful, nostalgic, jolly, uplifting, fun, etc. Which I really appreciate.
I discovered this film a week ago and ever since I've replayed this movie everyday in full maybe three to five times to feel better and ready for Christmas. Other Christmas movies are typical or make me feel excluded--perfect girl, perfect guy, perfect family, perfect house, perfect path to a perfect romance, perfect ending. This movie was quirky, and everyone is kind of normal despite the abnormal fanciful situation.
(Now for the things I don't like: I do agree though, the main actress's fake skin tanner and lipstick in one scene honestly was distracting. But it wasn't THAT bad, just at first sight each of these things required getting used to for a bit.
The stalker stuff was silly but I laughed because the silliness tickles my inner child, which you need during the holidays.
There was one scene where the song was playing while the main actress was playing a loud instrument in the hallway to upset her now stalker neighbor, and they didn't mute the instrument, which they should have. They muted everything else in the same scene... but not the instrument. It wasn't nice on the ears. We can see the instrument, we don't need to hear it while the soundtrack is playing loud and jamboree style too. But the reviews here whining that her tactics such as this instrument were "mean spirited" are still...ridiculous. She's not being MEAN, she's being desperate to turn her stalker off her. I related to it, to be honest. If you don't want someone to like you, then offend them, annoy them, or disgust them.
Also, the main actress's onscreen best friend seemed like she was trying to be funny.
Finally, the next door neighbor was old and elderly and therefore stereotyped as some kind of fairy godmother which was random. I also think they made the neighbor extra old compared to the main actress to make the main actress seem less old herself because without the elderly neighbor, the main actress looks middle aged when I think her character is a normal promoted career woman, which gears towards 30s age.)
Anywho, screw you guys, I've now been singing the theme song "Wish This Christmas" and "Rockin' Holiday" randomly around the house while making cocoa this holiday. "Make a wish this Christmas. Make it loud and wish it true." LOL. "Mom on the left, Dad on the right, it's a rockin' holiday...rockin holiday!" HA!
I give this film a big YAY and a HAPPY HOLIDAY!!!