A Twist of Christmas

I watch all the Christmas movies, Hallmark, Lifetime, misc. Canadian independent productions and UK movies. I have watched about 20 so far already this "holiday" season. This is one of the best ones. I found myself actually smiling numerous times during the movie. The acting was natural and felt like it really could have happened. That is harder than one may think in these movies to achieve. The two leads had a good genuine feeling chemistry. Not love at first sight, nor hate at first site, (which gets rather annoying after so many of these movies). Vanessa Lachey was very good. I have never seen her act before. Brendon Zub reminded me so much of Alex O'Loughlin from Hawaii Five 0. I have never seen him before either, in anything that I recalled. They both did a great job. There were no broadly drawn "villains" or bad people. The two kids were great. They also were more natural and did not overdo their roles. I guess I need to credit the director and producer for all this. Someone obviously gave great directions to the actors, and it worked. Be natural and more relaxed. Even the Grandparents seemed real to me. Low key and nice and normal people, like people I know. I thoroughly enjoyed this movie and recommend it.

The movie was fine but the characters weren't original at all. Super controlling, always on a schedule single mother meets a guy blah blah blah. It's been done to death

New fav Christmas movie!! Don't miss! Vanessa makes this movie so much fun to watch!

The big problem of film remains its unrealism. Far to be credible, it becomes, in few situations, just absurd.

The good things are the not bad explore of situation of single/ divorced parent and his relation with his kid. In same measure, the grandparents are inspired options, just seductive if you can ignore the racial dilemmas. The young Christian Convery reminds Liile Prince of Antoine de Saint Exuperry and. Vanessa Lanchery has the physical virtue to remind Michelle Obama. The film is , in essence, a fair one for a large public. And that is only important thing about it. And the toys, seeds of the romance , are just OK - sure , the expectations about Orson are higher after the first description of. Elliot.

Both leads are quite obnoxious to start with, but ease in to more acceptable human beings as the film moves on.

The toy mix up is a fine build up to a romance, I've seen something like it with De-Niro and Streep (No idea what it's called), but the carry on that follows here is a bit daft and hard to believe, I'm not sure any of my bosses would ever have been that understanding.

To be honest, I can't see why the female lead didn't just throw herself at Brendan Zub's feet the moment she saw him, he is very handsome as bad almost Godlike, but he was being a bit rude at the time I suppose.

It would be nice if we lived in a world where people can meet in bad circumstances, but forgive that first impression later on to maybe fall in love. Hey ho.

A good cast, nobody stood out as bad at least and they got up to Christmassy things. Brendan should have been naked at some point though, so it loses points for not achieving that.