Christmas at Dollywood

6.9 stars.

An event planner in NYC gets an interview for her dream job to help plan an event for Dolly at Dollywood. She is up for promotion at her current employment and if she does well, will eventually secure it. A man is also interviewing for the same Dollywood event and he is up for a promotion at the Dollywood park itself. He has worked for Dolly for his whole adult life. Will they be able to work together?

This is all about building up steam for us to see Dolly Parton, and eventually she makes a bit more than a cameo, but not much. I liked the emotion this film generates, however it's a bit too formulaic and lacks any additional entertainment or intriguing drama. It's simply about a woman and her daughter enjoying Dollywood while she works with a guy and falls in love with him. Dolly herself is a very minor side show that we don't get to enjoy more than a couple minutes. The romance is building up and we anticipate something wonderful, but it sort of fizzles. I sense a lack of chemistry, but they tried. Not one to repeat more than once every 10 years.

6/10 - I love some Danica McKellar, but unfortunately this one did little to distinguish itself

The hype for "Christmas in Dollywood" was a little to much and I was expecting to love this movie. I mean who doesn't love Dolly Parton right? She's amazing!! I also love Nina Weinman, she is a beautiful storyteller and writes beautiful scripts! Keep her Hallmark! I personally did not feel Nail Matter was not a good fit for Danica! Or for this movie, I felt NO chemistry and NO sparks between them at all! The dancing scene was VERY hard to watch!! So sorry..... I have always loved Danica, especially in previous Hallmark movies with Paul Greene (When calls the Heart) they always have beautiful onscreen chemistry together (Campfire Kiss) And (Perfect Match) which I feel Paul would of been a much better leading man for Danica and for this part. Nail is just ok for me here, he mumbled his lines A LOT! I could not understand what he was saying most of the movie! He is much better suited with Erin Krakow (Finding Father Christmas) movies.

If you take out Dolly Parton and Dollywood, this movie is a very lackluster production which almost could have been written by a phone app or a bunch of monkeys using past scripts and piecing them together. The story elements had no originality. The dialogue was blah. The acting was not worthy of note. There might have been a smidgen of chemistry between Danica and Niall.

I'm sure most viewers noticed Mckeller's real life book which in the story, and probably in real life, was being distributed by Dolly's foundation to children's charities. Someone made a reference talking to Danica's character saying that maybe she too would one day have her book from the movie story distributed by Dolly's organization.

Danica is cute but apart from a few Songs sung by Dolly there isn't enough of her. A few minutes at the end. The story is boring. Dollywood looks okay the parade nice. Not too unique just a nice generic theme park set romance.