Mr. Miracle

I thought this movie was fun and kind of cute. Unlike some other reviewers, I liked Rob Morrow's performance as Harry the angel. He brought a wide-eyed, goofy, naive innocence to the role. He helped you imagine what it would be like to be experiencing Earth life for the first time, with all its weird emotions, sensations and unfathomable social norms. I liked how he was almost always smiling and upbeat.

The romance between Addie and Erich was okay. It seemed a little forced and unrealistic, and I wish they had developed it a little more. Not sure why Addie had such a hard time believing in herself. Her low self-esteem needed a little more compelling a backstory for me to make it truly believable. Truth be told, however, Addie's story took kind of a back seat to Harry's. He was the character that we were most invested in, and Addie was important only in so far as her success advanced his progression as an angel.

I also read Debbie MaComber's Mr. Miracle book, and the film follows it reasonably closely. I think the book develops the Addie/Erich relationship a lot better, though. Also, there is more drama. For example, Mr. Conceito is truly a tyrant in the book and he attempts to get Elayna, who is a school employee, fired for being involved in Harry's class. He also attempts to shut down Harry's class party because it somehow violated school regulations. Details like this might have added more meat to the plot of the movie, but I guess you have time constraints in a movie and can only do so much.

All in all, I thought the movie was a fun and charming and definitely entertaining, and the characters, especially Harry, were likable and relatable.

This movie has such great potential, with a wonderful story to tell . Almost every one is great but the main character could at times hard to watch. I get he should have certain naïveté but they made him less unexperienced angel and more sweet over the top guy on the spectrum. Which would be fine but if that is his character they should have made that clear in movie. Over all the movie was a good movie but honestly I had to fast forward through some of it.

Christmas films can go either way, which has been my experience watching overtime the festive output of Lifetime and Hallmark. They can either be well-meaning, charming, warm-hearted and don't feel too heavy. Or they can be too over-sentimental, cheesy, contrived and bland. There have been many films of theirs that have fallen in both camps and in the camp where there is a bit of both. The premise for 'Mr Miracle' did sound quite charming.

Sadly the execution was a long way from charming, pretty much the complete anti-thesis. Really did want to like 'Mr Miracle' and there was actually potential for it to be good, but, while it does have a few good things, it does a lot wrong. Being particularly unbalanced by one aspect talked about at great length already to the extent that it ruins the film. This is not coming from somebody who takes pleasure in being critical and actually tend to be generous, including on films often looked upon with scorn.

'Mr Miracle' has a few redeeming merits. With one massively glaring exception, the cast are game and do their utmost best to bring the film and their characters to life. The leads are particularly appealing.

It's a decent looking film too, especially the nostalgic looking scenery that has a very festive atmosphere. Some of the music is pleasant.

However, a lot doesn't work. The dialogue does tend to sound awkward and could have been a good deal tighter, also rather too reliant on the cheese and schmaltz. The story often is pretty dull and feels too thin for the length, and then the last act is rushed and contrived and ends too neatly. There is also nothing new to it and didn't get anything from it emotionally. The charm and heart are missing. The characters could have done with a good deal more growth, despite the valiant efforts of the cast the characters felt underdeveloped.

The direction never rises above workmanlike and the character interactions are at best routine, not entirely disconnected but the spark isn't there. What ruins 'Mr Miracle' is the titular character himself, instead of coming over as a real, sincere person he is instead too much of a neurotic caricature to the point of unintentional creepiness. Which Rob Morrow overdoes dreadfully, everything about the performance was exaggerated and over-compensated.

Summing up, pretty weak. 3/10.

Rob Morrow is a fledgling guardian angel. He has been assigned to help Britt Irvin get her life back on track after the death of her father in this well-meaning but distracted Hallmark Channel Christmas Season movie.

Morrow as the hopelessly clueless angel offers a funny performance with a squeaky voice, but his story of learning how to do his job seems like it should be comedy relief from the budding romance between Miss Irvin and William Vaughan. Yet it takes up about half the movie and it feels like padding. More than that, it seems like auctorial commentary, telling the audience how they are supposed to feel, whether they do or not.

The details of making this movie -- the camera-work, the performances -- are well done. Unfortunately, the script seems more about the mechanical operation of the plot and telling the audience what to feel than letting us discover it within ourselves.

Hmmm...how can I fill 10 lines just to say this movie was horrible?

Well, I was very disappointed. The plot was lousy...the main players lacked talent and were annoying...the lead actress looked like she came out of the '50's with that goofy hairstyle and general appearance.

Mr. Miracle was obnoxious...very obnoxious...and goofy. Enough said about him!

It's a shame this movie is a spin-off of Mrs. Miracle, in which Doris Roberts was fantastic...as always! There's no rhyme or reason why Mr. Miracle...a talentless nobody...was chosen for his part, while a seasoned, TALENTED actress, Doris Roberts, had made her "Mrs. Miracle" movies so particularly wonderful.

This is definitely one movie that I will change the channel when it comes on...for I will not submit myself to this stupidity!