The Christmas Calendar

This movie had the potential to be a 10. Good plot, great casting, and especially Laura Bell Bundy. The problem is someone gave our leading man a fake french accent which messes up everything! He could have been from Philly or Chicago and the story line would have worked better without the dreadful fake accent. I could not fully enjoy this movie because of it. The best part of the movie was Laura Bell Bundy. She brought charm, feeling, and humor and made a poor movie watchable. The male lead was really good until he started speaking. my score 4

The owner and baker of a bakery but we never see her in the kitchen? The bakery opens sometime late in the morning? Treats and goodies just magically appear on all the shelves? I would also like to know why - in these Christmas movies, the female is always bratty and high strung; the male is calm and condescending. This movie exemplifies the millennials in our company, I guess. Elves will do the real work and it's okay to be bratty if you look precious.

Given the genre, the movie was sorta/ kinda entertaining.

Sure, I think he *can* probably act, but though he tries and occasionally succeeds: (I'm generous that way), poor Brendon Zub doesn't sound remotely French. As other reviewers have noted that 'orrible accent meant that I spent much time Googling, trying to see if he was possibly French-Canadian, and I was wrong & being picky - which detracted from giving full attention to the storyline.

Please, Hallmark - you must be able to get actors who genuinely have French as their first language? I have nothing against Brendon Zub - PLEASE cast him again. But y'all went wrong here!

It's a usual sappy Christmas movie, but I thought it was cute! I liked the mystery of the calendar and the rivalry between the bakers. Laura Bell Bundy reminds me of Doris Day. She's adorable!

Before i even mention the hideous accent, can we talk about the lead being an entitled brat who throws a hissy fit when she doesn't have her own way. So this guy pitches up in her bakery with the worst french accent you've never heard (more fakery than bakery) And because he doesn't tell her his life story, and he is also a baker, she throws a meltdown and acts like a Karen right at his place of work in front of customers. THEN a while later he is innocently handing out freebies outside his store, and she marches over and starts yelling at him on the street. This woman is insane, and he spends HIS time accommodating her rudeness and finding her adorable. I switched off after 40 minutes of this generic rubbish being displayed.