A Christmas Cruise

The movie is cute but just ok overall. I found the acting very scripted instead of fluid. Lack of true emotion. As a adult film it felt very juvenile.

The shots for the cruse ships were different. The first was the Queen Mary and the next shot looked like it was a standard cruise ship. Very little chemistry between characters.

Neither of the leads is appealing and their chemistry is weak. I didn't care what happened between them. The guy with the foot problems was not funny but just annoying.

The boat, oh sorry ship, is wimpy. Cruise directors have no time for flirting and besides that they all have real entertainment talents. You'd never catch him singing on a mic with a voice like St. John's.

The story doesn't really go anywhere except to the predictable ending. And besides that it made no sense.

Vivica Fox plays journalist and aspiring novelist Pam Stevenson.

Pam is invited by her best friend on festive themed Christmas cruise. Pam plans to get an article out of it but things do not start well as she has to sleep in a rollaway bed as there are not twin beds in their cabin.

Pam dispenses life advice to other cruise guests such as a young engaged couple and finds romance herself with the cruise director.

This is another run of the mill Christmas themed romance movie that is made for television. This one looks a bit more expensive, in short it was not made in Canada. They even use the Queen Mary that is docked in LA for exterior shots.

Laughably, Fox who is in her 50s plays a child of the 90s, rather unconvincingly.

Mainly writing this review to point out that it was obvious this would be a bad film from the very beginning. The cruise director reads the lead's "handwritten" notes only for the camera to linger on the opened journal and show him pointing to a typed script taped on the inside cover. I mean come on, how did every editor miss that? It only got worse from there.