Smooch

This was fairly cute and endearing, though it's not something I'd watch again. It wasn't good enough for multiple rewatches or to be a favorite.

The acting was appalling, the premise a joke and the whole thing was a waste of time. I usually like Kellie Martin but this was just embarrassing for all concerned.

Well she thought he was a FROG, This really was a fun watch. James Welch Henderson, Arkansas 2/15/2021

This is a fabulously innocent Valentine's Day movie. Watch it with your children of elementary school age (before the eye rolls start, displaying jadedness towards life -- too bad, once they do! ).

Be sure to have read a story to them about kissing a toad that turns into a prince before viewing so they can appreciate the context. (Don't read or share personal experiences of kissing someone who turned out to be a toad!)

If you'd like to put aside some of your own jadedness, watch this movie with an openness to the simple things in life. All the kingdoms of the world cannot match a very fine smooch.

This is a cute little TV movie in the "Miracle on 34th Street" vein. Besides some rather amusing acting -- particularly Simon Kassianides as a Marquis or perhaps Prince who prefers to get drunk and fall into an amnesiac fugue rather than marry his horror of a social-climbing fiancée, and Kiernan Shipka as a straightforward young girl who would rather believe in magic than live a rather empty life, there is plenty of subtext in this movie about hope, expectations and San Francisco -- although that highly cinematic town is not shown to any advantage. Surely a few more original pickup shots could have been arranged.

The romantic interest is provided by Kellie Martin, who is directed in the manner typical of a Hallmark TV romcom: brittle, fast-talking and ready to fall. There won't be much in the way of surprises in this work, but a light, almost negligent handling of the issues by director Ron Oliver keeps things moving along at a decent clip