Jingle Bell Love

If you watch this movie expecting a cinematic masterpiece I suggest you go watch something else as this is fluffy, campy, and full of Christmas movie trope. The best part though is the movie is it is honest and makes fun of the campy trope. Joey McIntyre does a very good job in this movie and it was cool to see Sean Thomas make an appearance as well. I enjoyed it thoroughly and will probably watch a few more times before the season is over. I highly recommend this movie if you just want to escape the real world for roughly 90 minutes and have some pure campy fun. Also why did it take so long to get to watch this in Canada???

Look we know what to expect from types of flicks. Low production quality, rushed shooting schedule, filmed during summer in Canada for cost cutting reasons, songs that you don't recognize but are Xmas related, dollar store decorations to make it the holidays, washed up former actors needing a quick paycheck, etc.

But this didn't even have any effort behind it. Clearly nobody was trying and they were just pushing out a product in time for the holiday as lazily as they could.

It's formulaic which is totally fine as long as it's fun and carefree - but this involves a dead wife, an evil wannabe step mother, and a grieving child who acts more like an adult because the writer doesn't know any actual children.

Yawn. Everything is phoned in - even more then the usual hallmark or lifetime fare. Even for free on Roku it's not worth it - watch another and take a chance on it being at least watchable. Because this isn't really.

I enjoyed this movie overall. I thought that Joey McIntyre did a good job and so did the young actress who played his daughter. My main problem was Michelle Morgan because I can only see Lou Fleming and couldn't get past that. She's a good actress and I love her in Heartland, but to be honest, I believe she was somehow nervous around Joey and there was not much chemistry. The songs were nice although I thought that it wasn't Michelle who was singing and she was (maybe I couldn't identify her with her singing voice) I also thought they could have done a better job with the wardrobe because Michelle is young and I felt she looked matronly. All in all a nice little Christmas movie.

Is it formulaic? Yes.

Is it low-budget? Yes.

Do we watch these formulaic flicks anyway? Also yes.

It's not meant to be a award-winning, critically aclaimed movie. It's meant to be entertaining, and it is entertaining. The actress who plays the young girl does a great, and in my opinion, standout job. The other performers do good as well. I, for one, appreciate a Christmas film that introduces new Christimas songs.

So to the cranky person who gave it 2 stars 5 minutes after the movie was made available on Roku... chill out. Don't take free movies so seriously. Be sure to let us know when you make your own masterpiece film!

Another Christmas movie that I wasn't familiar with, but I still opted to sit down and watch "Jingle Bell Love" here in 2024, as I am sitting through an extended sappy Christmas movie marathon here in December. And since I wasn't familiar with the movie, I suppose that writers Stefanie Black and Daren Flam and director Anne De Léan had every opportunity to entertain and bedazzle me.

Writers Stefanie Black and Daren Flam put together a fair script and storyline, which proved to be just sappy enough and corny enough to actually be one of those guilty pleasure watchable Christmas movies.

They sure drank a lot of coffees throughout the course of the movie.

Of the entire cast ensemble, I was only familiar with Joey McIntyre, from his singing career not his acting, And of course he had to break out in a song somewhere along the way. And I was also familiar with Michelle Morgan. The acting performances in the movie were fair.

I was actually adequately and genuinely entertained by what director Anne De Léan brought to the screen. Sure, "Jingle Bell Love" is not going to become a returning Christmas classic at my home, but it was actually a nice enough sappy Christmas movie. And if you are a die-hard fan of the sappy Christmas movie genre, then you definitely should check out this movie.

My rating of "Jingle Bell Love" lands on a six out of ten stars.