Her Pen Pal

Victoria's is a wedding planner. And of course she is planning the wedding of one of her best friends, which turns out to be in Paris, France. Once there, she remembers her pen pal from school, a french guy called Jacques, whom she dated for a while before meeting the now ex boyfriend of 12 years who just broke up with her.

My main complain is that if you are gonna have a French character, you should have a French actor. Yes, I can excuse a Canadian playing an American but and English playing a French? Not cool.

I actually loved the story, there were no major plot holes. Cliches? Yes we have a lot of them: we have two friends/exes reconnecting, a jealous ex boyfriend, nosy friends and misunderstandings, so it's your typical Hallmark movie. So you may wonder what makes this a good one? Firstly, Mallory and Joshua had passable chemistry (I forgot they worked together on Galavant, a TV show I watched) and of course, the location. We see a few typical spots of France (and if you pay attention you may see a few people with masks and even the police/security while they were filming)

I would have loved to watch a flashfoward tho, to see how the characters were doing (or maybe they are planning a second movie, which I will gradly watch). . For a second movie, however, I would get rid of the ex boyfriend and bring more diverse characters/actors. The movie didn't drive me crazy but I enjoyed it.

Tres bien! Paris is beautiful and the plot was a nice change of pace. Hallmark is letting their scripts include more comedy and I for one really appreciate it. Let's do a sequel!

Premise and some of the developments are typical. The ex was pathetic.

There were some laughs and good dialogue early on, but the ending, though pretty much the usual, disappointed me for lack of anything special.

Views of Paris were nice including some places I wasn't familiar with, but were the actors shot live in all those spots or was it green screen? If it was real, it didn't look right a couple times.

The leads mostly had chemistry.

Love the chemistry between the two leads (Joshua Sasse and Mallory Jensen). They are so natural and it helps that they worked together for two seasons on Galavant and of course they're accomplished actors in their own right. Between the great food and location posted on social media, it was a memorable and fun reunion for these two and Galavant fans shared the news with others. Hallmark should take a note in pairing up other couples from cancelled shows to star in future productions. If the cancelled shows were popular and the actors have chemistry, they will bring their following to Hallmark--a Win-Win for all!

It follows the Hallmark movie format to the tee. So why give it an 8? Paris, France and the leads are good.

I do have one gripe and that is the movie set up Victoria's backstory beautifully but failed miserably with the male lead. I mean come on, the dude is a square jawed handsome wealthy dude with perfect manners - Hallmark gave us...well he was traveling so he put off relationships for 15 years. I don't think so - come on writers give us something even 1% believable and we are good to go.