sandrakaae

Listen, I love cheesy Christmas movies as much as the next person, and seeing a primarily black cast in a stand-alone original movie was amazing! The characters themselves were hilarious and I believed in almost every actor on screen. The crew was literally amazing, and the movie isn't a horribly terrible movie at all...

That being said, I couldn't finish it. Maybe it's the overtones of very obvious, repetitive (and honestly not all that great) singing, or the weird dealings with family dynamics... but that kind of ruined the vibe for me? I was watching and all the time I would enjoy the characters, yet cringe at every new stupid little annoying thing they HAD to add for ingenuity...

Sometimes a Christmas movie doesn't have to be THAT complicated, you know.

This movie has a great cast, with a good Christmas message and the BEST concept ever (I am a sucker for the doe-eyed time traveler who knows nothing of todays technology trope) but it's also not very well explained. Don't think too hard on it, because there is very little background as to why the plot happens and why his quest is exactly what his quest is, but if you just wanna tune out and enjoy a silly original Christmas movie with an adorable concept extremely well executed, then this movie is for you.