A Belgian Chocolate Christmas

Well for starters, the movie is boring and it drags. The main characters have no spark or chemistry. The male lead is especially stale. I found myself wondering why he was casted because I did not find him interesting in the least bit. I managed to make it to the over half way mark and I had yet to see him show any interest in the female lead in any capacity. The writing is lackluster and there is a lot lost in the execution of bringing the story to life. I love clean movies. I subscribe to GAF specifically for that reason and there are plenty other movies that I like on GAF but just not this one. Complete fail on all fronts.

Unlike others, I really liked this movie. I have spent Christmas in Brussels for work and this movie definitely captured the mood and the feel of Belgium at Christmas. The story may be a little light, the acting was ok, but overall I enjoyed this movie quite a bit.

The mood of the movie gave you the feel of being awkward, but then again Kate, Jaclyn Hales, is an imposter, so awkward is in keeping with the story line.

I'm all for these types of movies: Good story, good actors, great location and Christmas in 3urope. I hope Great American Family continues to bring us more movies like this one.

But this one does not really work for me

I guess for me I needed more actual chocolate making, this movie is all about dialogue and how tasty chocolate is. No actual production of chocolate outside of dialogue

I very much appreciated how clean the movie is. I appreciated no over the top drama.

The actors were ok, I doubt either of them knew anything about actual belgian chocolate making. At around 55 min into the movie they actually do cook up somehing, for me its too little too late.

I believe my wife would like this more than me.

I can ay that I generally enjoy GAF more than this one.

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This story is based on several very common plot devices. One woman is pressed into impersonating her friend in a professional capacity which is the hanging secret. Family business is struggling which the grandson is trying to carry on. The two leads spend time together, in this case with Kate learning about chocolate in Brussels. Meanwhile she spurs Mathias to do some things to help the business. The story's conflict is very predictable and the ending is over the top.

I didn't see any chemistry between Jaclyn Hales and Zane Stephens. I often have trouble finding chemistry in hanging secret movies because at least one of the leads can't be totally honest. In this case, I think it is more than that. It just didn't feel like they were connecting. The Almost Kiss scene is clumsy and it felt like the actors were relieved to have it fail. I also wasn't impressed with the overall acting or the dialogue. The latter was frequently mundane. They too factors combined to make it seemed forced or unnatural.

There were some nice shots of Brussels which reminded me of being there. As expected with GAF, the story is very family friendly.

Okay..a movie about chocolate and Brussels...this combination should make for a great movie. But...the people making this movie managed to find multiple ways to mess it up. Poor pacing. Ridiculous cooking lesson scene near the beginning. Mediocre acting. And so it goes. Laughably bad. One silly example: the lead guy was reluctant to let lead actress into the cooking lesson because class was already starting but, well she was the only one in the class! And it just goes downhill from there. Oh I gave it two stars instead of one due solely to the unintended comedic relief. Another horrible GAC/GAG production.