A Magical Christmas Village

A Magical Christmas Village (2022) -

I had a feeling watching this film that the little girl, Chloe (Maesa Nicholson), must have been a witch! She created a magic which moved the story forward and while I'm sure it was all a coincidence really, it would be nice to think that magic was real and that playing around with a Christmas village could bring Luke Macfarlane in to my life. He always plays such lovely guys that he must surely be that nice in real life. In the role of Ryan, he was as charming as always and his character was slightly more simple than the others I've seen from him, which seemed to make him even more accessible.

Initially I thought that Alison Sweeney, playing Summer, might be too old for Ryan, but actually I really liked them together and I empathised with her character.

I also thought that Grandma Viv (Marlo Thomas) was going to drive me nuts at first, with her "Hippy" ways, but she was actually a good character too and played well.

The script was a little off, not the usual cleverly written and organic flow that I've been used to and it had some lines that were a bit twee or corny, but in general I felt contented by what I saw.

Maybe I was just feeling emotional and it hit some of my buttons, but I really liked this one. I didn't know why there were so many poor reviews from others.

Christmas, charity, romance and Luke, what more could you want?

7/10.