Natal em Graceland: Em Casa com Amor

Feel good movie....flows well....likable characters.....makes Memphis look like a Winter wonderland which it is not but overall enjoyable.

The first half hour of the movie I was struck with the production values; it looks beautiful, put together well, and for the most part has a very attractive cast. It was fun getting into the lives of the characters, and everyone does a fine job of acting. I was going along really enjoying the movie, and then it just crept up on me, that they were talking me to death. Very little happens except a lot of talkie-talkie and the movie starts to drag. So it would be difficult to recommend the movie, unless that's the mood you are in, to be talked at, or if you know you only have 45 minutes to watch something and then you are going to have to go to the store, or work, or church or something and never come back.

My guilty pleasure, hallmark love stories and even better, Christmas love stories. I wanted to like this movie. However there was no chemistry between the two leads. Not a knock on their acting ability but they just didn't feel like a couple falling in love. And from a fan's perspective they just seemed oddly matched. Well the good thing is we have many more first run movies coming this holiday season.

Main characters were not very charismatic. The Elvis music was a plus but Pricilla Presley's scenes were painful to watch due to her hideous facial 'enhancements'.

The people at Hallmark/Lifetime/Whoever got permission to use Graceland, so they're going to make the most of it. I'm not sure why they're trying to make it seem like a sequel to the Wes Brown film though, as the only connection is the location.

Some might call this 'The Sound Of Music Christmas At Graceland' as all it needs is some Nazi's and it might as well be the same script, with an overly organised father and regimented kids who hire a Nanny that changes all of that. This includes getting them all to sing around the piano in clothes made from curtains. Ok so the bit about the clothes isn't true, but these kids have sung together and learned the harmonies way before this woman ever turned up. They're just a bit too good. Eventually they have to escape over the border, that's not true either, but the leads have to decide what's really important to them both and work together to make the best Christmas for the kids and see what might happen between them.

The lead guy is just not right for me. I loved him in 'The Devil Wears Prada' and I've heard good things about him in 'Entourage'. Maybe it was his incredibly off putting haircut that made him seem off, but he was out of place in my eyes.

Overall, we've seen this story done before and better, but it's definitely not the worst of these films that I've seen.