Dashing Home for Christmas

A cliché ridden formulaic Christmas movie where the main character have to get home to family despite every obstacle thrown in their path.

The romance that develops along the way between the two leads seems highly unlikely as they are two very different personalities. Although the guy is the more likeable of the two I never felt invested in the characters. Watch if you've got nothing better to do on a damp cold December afternoon.

This is fine for all ages and there are many good points/examples throughout the movie. However I've seen it all before in the various Christmas journey sagas - there is nothing new at all. They could have injected a bit of humor/excitement into the end of the movie with everyone 'dashing' off to the hospital but the car tyre going etc and continuing in a van like the one mentioned earlier just to have some kind of visual throw back to this otherwise dialogue-heavy movie. Other visual comedy could have been achieved with travelers' Christmas sweaters / outfits, anything just to make it all less bland. However it must be fairly realistic, as I had travel fatigue watching this.

I think we can all relate to travel delays and frustrations but I wouldn't think to add romance to the mix. Most romances are based in unrealistic scenarios but this one could really happen! I am going to keep my eyes peeled the next time I'm at the car rental line.

I must admit, my favourite kind of Hallmark/GAC/Lifetime/UPTV Christmas movie is one where people are stranded somewhere and must get home usually via a long road trip - Cross Country Christmas, Holiday Road, A Christmas Detour - and that premise is what got me to watch 'Dashing Home For Christmas'.

Whilst not at the same quality as the three movies I mentioned above (I guess UPTV is probably third or fourth on the pecking order after Hallmark and Lifetime, fighting it out with GAC Family) it was still a nice movie that features two pretty good leads in Paniz Zade as Emily and Adrian Spencer as Simon, though I'd never heard of either before sitting down to watch this movie.

Good acting (and a welcome occurrence of zip, zero, nada over-acting!), good chemistry between the leads, no major continuity lapses that I could see, and a nice, thoughtful ending.

Nothing ground-breaking, but you could do a lot worse than 'Dashing Home for Christmas'.

This was an average film, with two likeable actors taking the leads so was an enjoyable hour or so spent.

There were a number of continuity errors in it and as it was as usual with these films, obviously summer, the close set looked quite poor at times.

A nice film and will hopefully lead the actors to bigger budget films, which they deserve.