Haul Out the Halloween

I'm sure many of you will remember the movie, HAUL OUT THE HOLLY, with the cast of annoying neighbors, the "fun time" of the HOA delivering violations, the unfunny dialog, and bad acting! Well take all of these same non-entertaining elements and instead of a Christmas backdrop, but put it in a Halloween theme, and there you have it!!!

Lacey Chabert and Wes Brown do their very best job of overacting that I've ever witnessed! The supporting cast of characters are exasperating and irritating instead of amusing. This is not an entertaining movie, I'd rather spend time rewatching ITS THE GREAT PUMPKIN CHARLIE BROWN!

Love that they featured new actors from another classic Halloween movie (Halloween town!). I really enjoy the "haul out" movie series in general, and this one did not disappoint. It was very cute, and had some good laughs as well. I do hope that they continue this series, I'd love to see what happens next.

There is no story, no plot, no romance, and whatever story was intended to be, I could not understand, and didn't care to. Can you imagine watching a hallmark and you can't understand the point? It was but a Lacey Chabert vehicle. "Put Lacey in it and they will come." "But boss, the story is awful." "Shut up Mimsy! Just do it!"

So many tedious dialogue filler scenes, I had to fast forward to move things along. They spoke their lines very rapidly with zero time in between lines, always trying to be clever. Every conversation was over-scripted.

What could've been a cute Halloween experience, was awful. When they finally had some sort of culminating halloween celebration at the end, it was all goofy elderly adults (plus lacey and her husband) wearing professional $1000 costumes. No kids were allowed in this neighborhood's high-falutin Halloween.

I'm not sure what kind of grinch could hate this movie. Our culture is obsessed with "entertainment" that shows the worst in communities, marriages, friendships and holidays. This projects the appropriate way to deal with conflict and differences. How to repair and support each other. Hallmark movies are not meant to be 10 stars, but Maclain Nelson's additions are funny and enjoyable. This is a fabulous addition to the "Haul Out" series, and I'm so glad they didn't repeat the competition from #2 with the new "Halloween Town" <3 couple.

Can we talk about how many LEGENDS are in this movie??!! They are ALL IN and make the story sparkle. Ellen Travolta rapping?! C'mon! That's what you missed out on when you turned this "boring" movie off in the first 15 minutes.

I was looking forward to a fun, light-hearted Halloween movie, but I lost interest within 10 minutes of the movie. It's a really awful production. I'm not sure who cared less... the actors or the writers and director. It was a cute idea but Wes was ridiculous as an over-the-top HOA president (even though I hate HOAs, he hammed it up far too much). I love Lacey but she just didn't seem into this move so there was no chemistry to be found anywhere. Every actor seemed completely disconnected from their role and the plot. Actually, I'm not sure anyone involved with the movie felt any connection. Hallmark, if you don't care about the product you put out these days, don't expect us to care either. I'm not expecting nor do I want deep and "messagy" movies from you, but don't expect me or millions of others to watch movies that you all just threw together and seemingly said "just release the movie, our viewers are stupid anyway".