The Enchanted Christmas Cake

Hands down the worst hair I have ever seen on screen. If I had been the hair dresser, I'd have fired myself and submitted my name as Alan Smithee for the credits. As a bonus, the bad guy's toupee looked like it came from the clearance aisle at Party City.

The plot won't even matter to you because all you see is the frizzy fried bangs. Between the brassy highlights and overly permed texture, it's like going back in time to 1987 in middle school when we were just learning how to use perms and curling irons, and still our hair usually turned out better than this! She should have stuck a dead squirrel on her head and called it a day.

Erica Durance is a much better actress than her performance she gave here. As you can see in many other reviews, her hair is a hot mess to the point of being distracting. I actually had to look up her real age as the overall styling, including her wardrobe, makes her appear so much older and just sort of makes the whole plot fall apart.

Robin Dunne, as Gavin, carries a lot of the dialog and brings his typical natural charm to the screen. Overall I think Gavin's lines are also scripted better such that Dunne's delivery is easier to execute. Whereas for Erica, as Gwen, has the challenge of trying to deliver on a lot of poorly written lines.

There was some fun, holiday potential here about the magic of finding love at Christmas that falls flatter than baking a cake during an earthquake.

I initially tuned in for Erica Durance, but I couldn't even last 15 minutes. Not worth my time. Lifetime Christmas movies are lackluster compared to Hallmark Christmas movies. They aren't as good.

REALLY that hair! So distracting! Acting a bit off, couldn't fully get taken in by the movie. Good story idea, but weak execution. The tv program angle was also badly written. They tried something but it just didn't fit well together in my opinion.

Am I missing something? It SHOWED the piece of paper with the "MA..." on the bottom. It's just a list of ingredients; it doesn't say how much of each to use, how long to cook, what temperature, etc. So how could anybody use it to make this cake? Seems like a pretty important plot point for everybody involved (writers, director, cast) to miss.