A Dogwalker's Christmas Tale

I watched this a second time just to make sure I was judging it fairly. It's simply not very good.

A sample of the witty repartee Luce asks Dean a question Dead: Nunya Luce: What Dean: None of your business.

Middle school

Clearly a Hallmark wannabe, but it missed the mark.

Not exactly a bad movie, just disappointing.

The leads had a certain charm, Jonathan Bennett as Dean Stanton and Lexi Giovagnoli were a cute couple, they would have done better with a better script.

My Advice: Go ahead and watch it, it's entertaining, just don't expect too much.

From the title itself you can tell that this will be no classic. It's a Christmas TV movie and expectations should be set at that level.

A rich girl meets a dog walker in the park and finds herself in a battle to save a local park from developers, which makes her re- evaluate her principles.

Like many of it's genre bedfellows it's very predictable and relies on the cast and the characters to make it a success. The cast do a good show with the limited material. Lexi Giovagnoli exudes a certain charm as the spoilt rich kid finally growing up and Jonathan Bennett does a half decent job as the activist. The back up cast are all adequate, with Timeca M. Seretti especially good in a cameo role as one of the dog walkers.

It's nicely filmed and there are a few hit and miss attempts at humour to go with the predictable romance. It's full to the brim with the usual Christmas messages i.e money isn't everything, family and friends mean the world etc. This is no bad thing but maybe they are forced home a bit too clumsily here.

You will pretty much know what's going to happen but as a very easy to watch Christmas movie, you could do a lot worse.

If you are like me, you almost turned this off when you saw how much of an airhead the spoiled rich girl, Luce, is. For example, she max's out her parents' credit card buying a lavish gift for her boyfriend who then dumps her, apparently because of the gift. "No substance" he says.

Then throw in the premise of saving the community park from a developer. I hate these because it's always some stupid coincidental thing that comes through to save the day.

But I hate to give up easily and this one turns out to surprise me. Luce is a contradictory mess of a spoiled airhead who happens to have some smarts buried in there somewhere. Underneath she is sweet, but most of all she is playful and that comes out in a witty dialogue mostly between Luce and Dean. The story is mostly a vehicle to keep these two together exchanging banter. The dialogue is also quite silly at times, but there are more than a few smiles and laughs. The ending was maybe even more lame than I expected, but really pretty typical for this kind of movie.

Some of the acting is deliberate exaggeration like for instance Patrick Muldoon as the husband.

I don't think I have to mention there are lots of scenes with dogs.

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Luce Lockhart loves Christmas, but she finds herself in a predicament when she maxes out her credit card. Desperately wanting a ruby necklace, Luce has no choice but to accept a dog walking job for the Brandts. Reluctantly agreeing to walk Hank, Luce finds a nearby dog park where she meets some of the dog owners, including exasperating dog walker Dean Silver. Soon after, she learns that the Brandts have plans to create a spa on the dog park land. When Dean finds out about these plans, he and Luce are at odds on Dean's agenda to stop the development. But as Luce spends more time with Hank and Dean, she starts to see the park in a different light. Stuck in a bad spot of having to choose between the Brandts or Dean, Luce will have to decide if she'll be able to save the dog park by Christmas

This film is watchable but you will forget the film by the time you wake up in the morning.

What is fun to watch is to see how the makers if this film tried to hide Jonathan Bennet's stomach. They try to do this with the camera angles and wardrobe but he has gained lots of weight since his "Mean Girls" days.

Now this film does have a few surprises. That is what keeps this film from being a total waste of time. The performances are good and the film moves along at a brisk pace. There is "Worse Christmas Movies" out there but there also many better "Christmas Movies" out there as well!

This movie was so bad. The acting might be the worst I've ever seen.