New Year's Kiss

I'd gotten so sick of the music and constant near misses that I had to check how much longer the movie had to go. I was only half an hour in and had an hour to go. It never at any time was pleasant to watch.

Both actors were good and I love Robin Dunne. Feel so bad for him in this movie that I checked imb to see if he left this one off out of embarrassment.

I still have another half an hour to watch but I'm not sure I can do this to myself any more. It is just so awful. It is very rare that I never finish watching a movie so I'm torn.

If at all possible, do yourself a favour and give this movie a huge miss. There are plenty of others and any would be better than this one.

Robin Dunne and Erin Karpluk are quite enjoyable and are the only reason why I was able to finish this. That's the positive.

Now for the negatives. The acting from pretty much everyone else was horrible.The production of the film was clearly on an extremely low budget that there are blatant green screen shots while actors walk down the street. The green screen is so bad that it's on almost every closeup of an actor. This was clearly filmed in the summer as you can see the sun shining on fully green grass and no one is dressed even remotely for winter. Quite a few times you can see white cloth used to replicate snow.

The most distracting thing is the constant mediocre score being played throughout. I don't recall a single time where we didn't hear it for more than 15 seconds. It becomes frustrating to the point where you start to believe they're using it to mask the boredom.

Both Dunne and Karpluk have been in better Christmas movies. Check those out instead.

Cute story but other than the leads; Erin Karpluk & Robin Dunne & their best friends all the other actors were pretty bad. But what really ruined most of this movie was the horrible background music; and because of that I will not be re-watching this like I do 95% of all the holiday movies every year. Hopefully the director on his next project will take the time to watch the movie before releasing it and correct the background music if it's anything like this one.

This movie is super cute with the exception of the non-stop background music. It was so loud, it was difficult to hear or focus on the what the character's were saying. Everything else was great, there is a lot of chemistry between the two leads.

I've enjoyed Erin Karpluk and Robin Dunne in other things so took a chance on this despite the poor reviews. Not sorry I did. This isn't great television by any stretch but it was a pleasant way to pass 1.5 hours on a holiday evening.

The fatal flaws were mostly in the beginning, with uninspired dialogue, one-note secondary characters, and especially a serious lack of deeper motivations for the main characters. If either of them early expressed a dissatisfaction with their career paths, the first half would have had more heart and the shift of direction at the 2/3 mark wouldn't have come as such a surprise.

It's a light, easy tv movie with some food for thought and a cute twist at the end that doesn't have to do with the happy couple.