A Royal Corgi Christmas

I am not Hunter kings biggest fan, but I actually think she did well in this film and I loved her in her Royal hiking outfit with the cap. Prince Edmund is played well by Jordan Renzo, but the dogs are the real stars of this film starting with Mistletoe, of course!

Prince Edmund's staff hire dog trainer and author of Dog-ma, Cecily (played by Hunter King). She comes with bit of an agenda, to get the Royal family to sponsor her charity, which predictably leads to bad feelings on the Prince's part as he sees her as a grifter.

I really appreciated that the Princess and the Queen were played by good people...in fact there is only one misguided member of the Royal household. It. Was fun to have Cecily's friend and business partner, Jacob, be a Royal watcher (as I do know they exist).

Overall I enjoyed it...but mainly because of the dogs, so I recommend it to dog lovers especially those fond of Corgi's (whichbyiu can guess by the title).

Prince Edmond (Jordan Renzo) is the thoughtless heir apparent. He gives his Queen mother a corgi for Christmas. The untrained dog wrecks havoc at a televised event. Cecily (Hunter King) is brought in to train the dog although she insists that she train the prince as well.

Hunter King is trying to be funny for a little bit. The prince is rather nothing. They are two hot pretty people and that alone would generate some superficial heat. I rather have a little girl owning the dog. Hunter can have more fun with the kid and the dog. The prince can fall in love with who essentially is the nanny. I mostly enjoy the dog and a little bit of Hunter. That's it. It's a bland Hallmark Christmas.

I was all for watching a movie about a rambunctious royal corgi, but when I first saw who would be the male lead, I quickly got discouraged. Jordan Renzo just didn't fit the image of a royal prince. Hallmark has had it's fair share of actors portraying future kings and they have until now fit the role perfectly. Unfortunately, Jordan Renzo falls below the benchmark. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure he's a good actor but for me, this was just the wrong role for him.

So despite the cuteness of the corgi and Hunter King's bubbly presence as Cecily Bowman, the dog trainer, I just couldn't find a good reason to finish watching this movie.

Hallmark and all the other rom-com film producers always screw up movies about royalty, it's usually fake with bad scripts and acting and direction and this is one of the worst. The script and dialog is just bad, there are better actors out there with real English accents, the accents here were not good. The plot was uninteresting and I turned it off after an hour. They should get a new casting director.

Writers of these rom-coms should watch "The Crown", "The Queen", "The King's Speech" and other solidly written films that are about royalty. They should bring in good British screenwriters when they're going to do stories about royals, not cartoon writers. Scenes can be comedic without being just plain dumb, it's like these were written by 3rd graders.

I gave it a rating of "2" because I liked the corgis.

A Royal Corgi Christmas? Give me a break.

But I know sometimes Hallmark gives stupid names to some pretty good movies.

Then I saw it was directed by Clare Niederpruem, who directed Holiday for Heroes, Christmas Bow and One December Night, good movies all.

I am really sick of the whole royalty thing, but they keep making them so they must appeal to someone.

This was a little different.

The American commoner is a dog trainer hired by the monarchy to tame a Corgi which has been gifted to the queen by her son. She is clumsily respectful at first, but in time she comes to interact with them as people and eventually comes to playfully mock them and their royal trappings.

Hunter King as Cecily is so good. She is not the typical Hallmark beauty, but her personality is what makes her special. This is not to say she's unattractive.

She and Jordan Renzo as the prince have excellent chemistry.

Julie Lamberton as the princess is also excellent. I would not be surprised to see her in leading roles in the near future.

The only reason I would grade down a little is the traditional Hallmark misunderstanding at the 100 minute mark is a little clumsy, and the reconciliation left me scratching my head a little.

Otherwise, well worth watching.