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The whole movie was predictable but still, the actors were cute and can never get enough of the best friends turning into lovers case, always good to watch.

I thought this was a cute holiday movie. I wouldn't say it's an awarding winning movie that truly touched my soul! No nothing like that. Just a cute, clean family movie. Def. gave me the Hallmark Christmas movie vibe.

It's a holiday movie, don't expect too much . It's wachable. Poor acting dough... But I liked the idea with the calendar, I could use that one in real life... :) It's worth waching if you don't expect too much from a Christmas movie.

First of all, i'm a sucker for these kind of movies. This was such a feel good movie and very fun to watch. Although the acting was off sometimes. But for the holidays, it's a great movie to watch, it's worth your time.

The concept of the movie and the calendar gifts were unique but the rest of the movie was average. First off they act like this girl is some struggling artist with her brand new car and her giant apartment. She's more like the daughter of a wealthy lawyer so she can be a photographer all she wants. Then the male lead has braids and a unibrow going on where it makes you root for the other guy. The meet cute with that other guy was pretty cute so the movie gets points there.

Still not even finished the movie yet but just had to say it is so nice to a TV actress without a face full of botox and who can animate said face. There are some original lines in this and it does feel modernised - complete with requisite blended family. Still worth a watch when you want nice gentle entertainment

I've always thought the Christmas movies on hallmark were super cheesy bad acting lol but this one was surprisingly not bad! Not super cheesy and kind of a cute story! Worth the watch I'd say!

Nice Christmas setting, cheesy Christmas story but really bad chemistry between the two!

If we're rating according to how well the movie accomplished its goals, I have to give this a rave review. Somehow Netflix noticed that people love watching bad holiday TV movies, so they made their own perfect versions, taking every gloriously terrible detail into account. The Holiday Calendar combines a ridiculous plot, adorably unrealistic characters, incredibly cheesy writing, over-the top scoring, and the perfect amount of cliche, both of the Christmas variety and of the bad movie variety. It's a perfected version of your average Hallmark movie, but without the soulless blonde leads. I have to take off one point because it's neither a "good" movie nor an official satire, but it certainly impressed me. Netflix understands TV watchers better than any television network.

This movie was great! Of course the story was rather predictable, but with a fun storyline and good acting, it was quite enjoyable. This will definitely be added to my 'Holiday Love Movies' List!

This film lacks conviction. The storyline is flat and the acting falls short. I had hopes this would be an above average Christmas film but it is not. It is boring from beginning to end.

I can see why some people would like this film because if you are in to cheesy Christmas films it's right up your alley but if not I wouldn't bother wasting your time

The whole time I was watching this I just kept thinking about how that mom probably told her whole family she was in a Netflix movie and then she got everyone together to watch it and she put on this. Everyone was probably just like "wow Barbara.....this is different...."

OK, it's another romantic Christmas movie, generally catering to female audiences, BUT it does have a lot of beautiful scenery and the main characters are rather likable and speak from their hearts. If nothing else, it's the perfect movie to see with the lights turned off, warming up to your snuggle bunny on a chilled December evening. I guarantee Christmas spirit will gather around the both of you.

It is a good Christmas rom com movie,definitely give it a watch,it is a good movie for netflix

Christmas is my favourite time of year and has always been very special. Main reasons being that it means lots of family time and reliving the nostalgia of singing and listening to carols, watching Christmas films and animations, playing festive games and opening presents. Will never tire of it and nothing will ever change that for the world.

There were two main reasons for seeing 'The Holiday Calendar'. One was due to absolutely loving the concept, which was one not seen an awful lot in festive films and sounded really interesting and cute. The other was wanting to see more festive films, and ones different to the ones familiar with, adored and watched every year. Watching 'The Holiday Calendar' with no knowledge before of its critical reception, thought it was semi-watchable and not quite that bad but also couldn't help feeling underwhelmed. It could have done so much more with its concept, which would have made it feel fresh, but it ended up feeling like a typical cheesy sentimental drama-romance with some merits. Despite how that sounds, that is not meant to imply that there is a personal bias against drama-romances, there are some good to great ones out there. They do however have traps, and 'The Holiday Calendar' falls into pretty much all of them.

Certainly there are good things. There is a real festive charm to how 'The Holiday Calendar' looks, it's beautifully shot and the locations are even lovelier. This festive charm can be heard aurally too, with an infectiously catchy soundtrack that does get one into the Christmas spirit.

It is when it focuses on its concept of the calendars/gifts when 'The Holiday Calendar' is at its most watchable. Then the film is interesting as well as sweet, without being too sugary, and charming, when one is caring about what happens.

Unfortunately, much more could have been done with it and for me it was not focused on enough. Instead 'The Holiday Calendar' focuses too much on the romance and dramatic elements, and the film falls well short in this respect. The romance suffers from a complete lack of chemistry between the leads and from being completely bland, with especially cheesy dialogue that doesn't flow and a rather impossible to root for protagonist. The drama felt forced and over-sentimentality is far from kept at bay, the film is practically covered in it and at its worst it is hard to stomach. The severely wanting dialogue and lack of chemistry is apparent here too and although the main character is the worst case none of the cliched characters are interesting and are instead annoying.

Charm and heart comes too far and between, and the film is further hurt by its excessive predictability, where everything is easily foreseeable long before it happens due to being done so many times before, and going so over-the-top on the credibility straining that it becomes unrealistically far-fetched. And it is not just trying and failing to accept that most of the cast are too young for their archetypcal characters and that it is impossible to believe that the main character is struggling to make ends meet when it looks like she is the richest character in the whole story. The direction is routine at best and all the performances fall flat.

All in all, semi-watchable but lacking in too many areas to be good. 4/10 Bethany Cox

Look, the movie itself wasn't unenjoyable. It just wasn't amazing either. The premise of the movie had good ambitions, it could have been so much better.

The male lead (character of Josh) was great. The actor fitted the role well, and he was a believable character who was easy to like. The actor playing gramps did a great job as well. The supporting character Fernando added the not-subtle, not real world comic relief that's expected in movies like this.

Aside from the expected cheesy nature and obvious plot, the main issue I had with the movie is the female lead/character. I don't know if it is a combination of bad writing, bad direction, and bad acting, or just one of those things. The longer the movie went on, the more I disliked her. Rather than portraying the anguished, impoverished photographer I suspected we were supposed to see, the female lead came off as spoilt, rude, self-centred, and generally unlikeable. Even the romance felt forced from her end, and many scenes felt stilted and awkward.

So, not a horrible movie, but not the best either.

It's easy to say that yes this movie is highly predictable. I'd presume that's one of the reasons it's receiving a large load of bad reviews. I think coming from my point of view is that the film is like any other good Christmas movie. It's predictable although always has a moral behind it. It's worth giving a watch. No you're not going to watch it more then once this year but it's still pretty good.

The storyline was nice and Kat was a great actress like always, and I do like watching cheesy predictable Christmas rom-coms, but it felt like they didnt have chemsitry and i didnt "ship" the couple. Good plot and perfect for switching off and relaxing for Christmas!

If it weren't for Quincy Brown being so damn cute I would have dozed off the moment it started. I had high hopes for this because of the amazing cast. Sadly, it was just like every cheesy and horribly written Hallmark Christmas movie.

It felt so dry from beginning to end. The acting was dull. There was literally no memorable scene. There was barely a climax. It felt like it just had one tone from beginning to end - there wasn't anything exciting, anything funny, anything that would literally just make you feel something - nada.