Get Him Back for Christmas

Bella enlists her high school musical partner, Jack, to win back her megastar boyfriend, Sage, who dumped her. Her obsession with winning him back immediately brought my opinion of her down. It is sadly pathetic for a while. It's not a new concept leading to these collaborators developing feelings for each other. There is another developing romance between Jack's bro, Matt, and his crush, Mia. Matt is a little slow and apparently so is Mia.

The looming conflict becomes apparent about half way through. It is another common trope where one lead has a scheduling conflict. Jack ups the ante on it with an original song about Bella performed in an empty Cowboy stadium. The song is well done and the whole scene is dramatic. That's followed by even more drama. In fact quite a bit happens. It becomes quite a good story.

I was surprised at the chemistry there was between the real-life married couple, Alexa and Carlos Penavega. There were moments it seemed off and others they were right on.

There is a lot of singing, at least if you count Bella and Jack doing the song. I was pleasantly surprised by Alexa Penavega's performances. Carlos wasn't bad either. I mentioned Jack's performance and then there's another by Bella, then Bella and Jack to close. The ending is sweet, sappy, borderline almost cheesy, and funny.

Mario Lopez makes several appearances as himself giving reports from the TV show Access Hollywood.