A Belgian Chocolate Christmas

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.

Seriously find something else, this blew. If this is what Great American Family is putting out then it's not a very good network. Was this a Christmas movie? I couldn't tell. It was a snooze fest. Who can come up with the required number of characters to talk about this movie??? It's bad, it's bad, it's bad, just awful, very awful, just not good. How many characters do I have left 217! Ok. So so boring, who are those people anyway? Was it filmed in LA in the back of a theater? Luckily, it's almost Christmas so Hallmark will show them how Christmas movies are done. Someone should for sure. Bye!

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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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.

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.