Holiday Touchdown: A Bills Love Story

A cute movie with a very current timeline about building the new Bills stadium. My sister's house has all those Bills decorations and more -- no lie! Great to see on-location filming at Chestnut Ridge Park, East Aurora, Children's Hospital, and the old and new Highmark Stadiums.

It's a typical Hallmark storyline, but well done by all the actors. And the Bills players are having a ball. Go Bills!

It was everything you think it would be and more! It was a entertainment sandwich of cheese, more cheese, pickled Hallmark trite, with a cocaine, avocado mayo. A timeless story in Buffalo where Buffalo, Buffalo chicken wings, really , omg Andre Reed, east, aurora brings the real Chritmas spirit heat. This movie reminds us all, that everyone wins in the world of make BILLieve, except the bad guys.

As a former Bills season ticket holder and lifelong Canadian fan, I just had to watch this film when I read my Bills e-mail advising me that it was on tonight.

I felt they did an excellent job with the casting of veteran actors Joe Pantoliano and Tracy Pollan, and the male and female leads, Holland Roden and Matthew Daddario had great chemistry.

For Bills fans it was of course great to see some of the current and former players in cameos.

What surprised me was the quality of the story line, nothing too complex of course but better than what I expected to be a cookie cutter Holiday film plot.

I would recommend this film for both Bills fans and anyone looking to watch a good lighthearted family Christmas movie.

4 Stars out of 5. (I would have given it 5 stars except Doug Flutie was not in it...lol)

Hallmark seems intent on putting some of their more popular stars as cameos in various movies.

But more than that this was a Bills pep rally. I doubt the Bills' publicist could have put in more Bills hype. Not to mention numerous Bills players, former players and head coach.

The story doesn't matter. There is plenty of banter and the tone is very upbeat. There is a running gag of "you should tell her" coming from people Gabe hardly knows. Basically the movie is just fun.

Unlike a lot of this type of movie based on Sports themes, the story isn't about a build up to a championship and since the last game shown is Christmas, they don't really talk about where the Bills place.

Gabe and Morgan have known each other since childhood and are best friends. Their actors mesh together perfectly like they have been together that long.

There isn't a lot of tension in the story especially since the viewer knows how things will work out for the couple and the pregnant mom.

There are a lot of sappy moments. I thought the sap was closer to being cheesy, especially the climax.

If you go to my User's Page, you can find my review on the first HOLIDAY TOUCHDOWN: A CHIEFS LOVE STORY movie which I gave two stars for being a shameless 2-hour infomercial for the Kansas City Chiefs. Its only redeeming quality was a good supporting cast of veteran comedic actors whose talent was criminally wasted. As I said about that one, it had no plot to speak of and whatever semblance of a plot wasn't even up to your standard cookie cutter Hallmark Christmas Movie.

This one exceeded all that by far. It still had a lot of gratuitous cameos of retired and current NFL Buffalo Bills whom I suspect only an obsessed fan living in Buffalo for decades would recognize in totality. But the central characters aren't as annoyingly obsessed as those in the first movie, and I could identify and sympathize with them. The plots are still formulaic but not totally cookie cutter. My old 20-minute rule for Hallmark movies (you know within the first 20 minutes which two characters are going to be paired up at the end) still held true, but there were other relationships that develop. And as with just about all Hallmark movies, it's not the destination that matters, it's the journey.