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Kylie Watson (Lacey Chabert) is trying to start her own cake business and expecting a marriage proposal from boyfriend Alex. He brings her to a pizza place owned by her high school boyfriend Nick. Instead of a marriage proposal, Alex offers her a promotion. Disappointed, she breaks up with him. She gets into the American Gingerbread Competition and needs Nick's oven.

I actually like Alex trying to fix it. It's not the greatest move. It could have been funny. Of course, Kylie has to go with the hunkier guy and on top of that, he has a cute little boy. Lacey Chabert is super sweet and that's the central heart of this Hallmark romance. Otherwise, I don't think this would work. I don't really like Nick. She makes it work. She is so up that she uplifts the whole movie. In the end, that's all that matters in this type of movies.

I HAVE REVIEWED OVER 400 Christmas MOVIES.

BEWARE OF BOGUS REVIEWS. SOME REVIEWERS HAVE ONLY ONE REVIEW. WHEN ITS A POSITIVE REVIEW THAT TELLS ME THEY WERE INVOLVED WITH THE PRODUCTION. NOW I HAVE NO AGENDA! I AM HONEST! I REVIEW Christmas MOVIES AS A WAY TO KEEP TRACK OF WHAT I HAVE SEEN!

Hallmark seems to cast the same ladies in their films. I think its great. It seems every year they have Candace Cameron, Alicia Witt, Erin Krakow, & Lacey Chabert in a Christmas film. To me Lacey always has a film that I enjoy watching. SHe is now like an old friend you see during the holidays. Here she shines again in this drama that plays to her strengths.

In this film: A struggling pastry chef Kylie Watson (Chabert) learns she's made it to the finals of the American Gingerbread Competition, she thinks her competitive spirit has finally paid off and hopes the publicity will help her jump start her new café. There's just one problem — the oven she's supposed to use breaks down right before the contest. Determined to enter, she reaches out to Nick Mazannti (Coco), her old boyfriend from culinary school who gave up his dream of being a pastry chef to take over his family's pizzeria.

The film is one of those movies that you just sit back and enjoy. I love the fact that this film was logical on how people would react in real life.

Worth Watching

There were quite a few reasons for wanting to see 'The Sweetest Christmas'. The title was a little corny but also somewhat appetising. The idea for the story was hardly innovative but sounded cute enough. Lacey Chabert is always a likeable watch, like her voice work too, and generally one of the better prolific Hallmark leads, whether their festive efforts or in general. Have been on another one of my completest quests since November/December, and this was part of it.

If there was one word to sum up 'The Sweetest Christmas' it would be okay. It is not a bad film, it is at least palatable, and there are things that come off well. At the same time it is not one of Hallmark's better Christmas efforts and a bit of a missed opportunity, too many of its components being average at best. Will say though that 'The Sweetest Christmas' is not one of the worst either, there are worse written, acted and looking and ones that bored, annoyed and insulted the intelligence more.

Visually, 'The Sweetest Christmas' looks quite good with it being shot and lit well and while standard the settings were appealing at least. The music is a pleasant listen with some nostalgic song choices, and didn't sound over-scored or gimmicky.

Chabert is her usual likeable and charming self and carries the film with ease. Jonathan Adams is amusing and quite delightful in his role, his comic timing bringing some welcome levity, and the cast in general look comfortable and nobody is below average. The chemistry always came over as natural.

However, the story doesn't have enough to it. Actually don't mind awfully that it was very formulaic, what bothered me was that there was very unimaginatively executed, was really not much of one at all, had some fairly contrived situations and the film gets so sweet (too much so) in places it was almost sickly. The script is similarly thin and quite routine, it has some shining moments with Adams but it tended to have an awkward flow and was excessively cheesy and schmaltzy.

Pacing can be a problem, with the story being too little a lot of the film crawls along and feels over-stretched. The direction is only functional at best and can be on the leaden side of things and while the characters are inoffensive enough there is no real depth to them.

Summing up, okay but a middling/middle-tier festive Hallmark effort. 5/10

As Hallmark holiday romances go, this abides by common storylines. A young woman (Lacey Chabert as Kylie) runs into her ex (Lea Coco as Nick) just as her boyfriend is revealed to be an unromantic, clueless dweeb. They catch up on old times while Nick assists her attempt to win a baking competition.

Lacey Chabert demonstrates why she is a Hallmark favorite, with her cheerful, affable demeanor. The amount of chemistry between the two leads is acceptable, making this a decent film, but not one of the best.

Not sure if it's a 7 Star, but it's close. It's a nice, brand new heartwarming Christmas movie. Who doesn't like Lacey Chabert? She's the one who deserves the 7 Stars, for sure. I'm a big fan of hers on these Hallmark movies. She's got that Hallmark charm I love. And wow, those gingerbread creations were just amazing. Who does that? I've never created a gingerbread house or whatever for that matter. Some day, I might think about it. Maybe when two heads are in it together. That will be the day. Until then, it's only in film. Great 2017 holiday chick flick from Hallmark!

Not only is the love interest in this movie extremely difficult to root for, but the heroine contradicts herself constantly and ends up choosing the wrong man! In other words, parts of The Sweetest Christmas is just like real life.

At the start of the film, we're introduced to Lacey Chabert and her boyfriend Mar Andersons. He's too focused on his work and seems to only value her work ethic and contributions to "the team", so she breaks up with him. Then, she's reunited with an old flame from high school, single dad Lea Coco, and sparks fly. The only problem is Lea also lets work take his first priority, and he also only appreciates her inner qualities, like how she interacts with his son and her ambition and creativity at work. I got the distinct impression that the audience isn't really supposed to notice the similarities. It is realistic, though; how many times do we find a new main squeeze who's exactly like our ex and we claim that "this one's totally different!"?

There's absolutely no chemistry between Lacey and Lea, and the only good part of the movie is the best friend and comic relief, Jonathan Adams. He's absolutely hilarious and even ad libs when Lea spills his coffee on him during one scene. To top everything off, Lacey utters the corniest, most ridiculous line in Hallmark history: "I have to show him how I feel, the best way I know how: with gingerbread." Trust me, you don't have to sit through this one. Watch Family for Christmas instead.

Some reviews for these types of movies come across so harsh. Sure they're predictable but, isn't that what we're looking for when we tune in to Hallmark movies? They give us exactly what we want, a happy ending with two people finding a way to be together. We watch them not because we expect them to appear on the next Oscar ballot, but because we want to escape the world for a bit, drink something warm & smile cause it worked out exactly how we wanted in the end, which is a nice change from reality.

This is a typical, cute baking storyline. The male lead is kind of forgettable, but Lacey shines and Johnathan (Ralphie) is a hoot! I love him on Last Man Standing. Anyways, I'll watch this movie if it's on but probably won't go out of my way to watch it on purpose.

The story is that Lacey Chabert has to win a "Gingerbread" sculpture competition, but she has romantic challenges. That's it. There is no subtext or inter-twined script elements. Assume the cynical Hallmark thought that the popularity of "baking" TV programs could support the film - it doesn't - this bread doesn't rise. Chabert does a valiant chipmunk impression throughout and was chosen, no doubt, to develop sympatico within 10 year olds in the audience. However that set up will not gell with failed marriage plans to the Boss and developing a new romance with Lea Coco (Actor Coco could have been replaced with a large plate of German sausage) Lighting good, camerwork good, script poor, sets: budget. Sympathies go out to African American actor Jonathan Adams who did a good job as the sage advisor, but, in some cruel act by wardrobe, he was made to wear a green plaid shirt and looked like a dick - he must have upset someone.

TV Guide this week labeled Lacey Chabert the current holiday champ of Christmas leading ladies and she doesn't hurt that reputation in this movie.

This movie is filled with the clichés of plot devices. 1) A contest the protagonist must win to either seed a business or pay debts; 2) The protagonist is invited to a special dinner where she expects a ring but doesn't get it; 3) The lady falls off a ladder into man's arms; 4) Snowball fight (2 in this one); 5) High school sweethearts parted for their careers; 6) A kid with an absent mother that one of the protagonists befriends. And so many more. But wait. The movie laughs with us at some of these. The best example is the aftermath of the failed special dinner - one potential suitor explains to the other why Kylie was mad when she left the dinner.

The story teases us with what we think is predictable, and is to a certain extent, but then slightly twists it. Yes it's Hallmark and yes it is a Hallmark ending, but it is still worth watching.

I loved Jonathan Adams as Ralphie. He added so much humor along with sage advice. I criticized Lara Gilchrist is All of My Heart: Inn Love, but I loved her here, again with Chabert, as Kylie's wise sister. Kylie and Nick are almost comical in their sad behavior and they definitely need wise heads beside them. I wish I could say I thought Lea Coco had great chemistry with Chabert, but to me it was just slightly above average.

The Sweetest Christmas (2017) -

Over the last few years I have started to notice a trend in not putting too much thought into these made for TV Christmas specials and just knocking out film after film to fill a quota and all still with the same basic formula.

I don't mind that formula too much, although a change up would be nice, but the lack of thought has not worked for me.

This film however was apparently made before they started to really stop caring.

However with so many of these films following the trope of breaking up and then finding love straightaway, and because of how quickly and very easily they do move on, I have started to wonder how many people are walking around in couples that are doomed to fail for not actually being with the right partners? Just waiting for an old flame to reignite or a newer better person to enter their lives. The Ex's clearly didn't mean much to them to throw away the relationships as they do so often in these films and as Kylie (Lacey Chabert) did in this one.

Expecting a proposal at dinner Kylie was not pleased when partner and boss Alex (Lane Edwards) offered her a promotion instead. She realised that things were not going right for her, already stuck in a job that wasn't the cooking/baking career she wanted and when the oven at home blew up she turned to recently reacquainted ex boyfriend Nick (Lea Coco) to use the one at his Pizza Restaurant for a gingerbread competition she had entered. The rest was exactly what I'd expected, especially having seen so many of these films over the years and this particular idea at least ten times, but it was warm and full of festivity and heart, even if the leading pair were kind of idiotic about how they felt for each other as the old relationship was rekindled.

Also I did feel a little bit sorry for dumped Alex although he was obviously clueless. He wasn't the typical bad guy this time and he really did try, he just didn't know anything else but business. Perhaps he had a visit from three Christmas Ghosts in his future, but I could easily have seen a sequel where he found love as well, because he clearly had a heart too and his character wasn't so far gone.

I also liked the supporting characters Ralphie (Jonathan Adams) and Kylie's Sister Tina (Lara Gilchrist) as well as Nick's son Bobby (Brendan Sunderland). They at least seemed like nice people and the sensible voices that the leads should have listened to more instead of both being overly dramatic.

I did have to question the actual reality of Gingerbread building competitions that have a $25,000 prize. If this was actually real can someone please confirm it because that seemed very unlikely and honestly I couldn't imagine the entries that were made for this film winning much.

And one of my irritants from the less recent films was the choice to use Christmas Trees that looked half dead, either because they're filming in summer or because the production just didn't care about it, but this was definitely one of those that had droopy branches and that annoyed me too.

Other than that Lea Coco was nice to look at and aside from the Tree there was nothing to complain about with regard to production values.

I won't say that I'll definitely watch it again, but I haven't written it off completely like so many others. It did the job, but with so many being released each year, it's hard to rewatch any that aren't specifically outstanding or set themselves apart from the others, which this one didn't, even if it was one of the better examples of the genre.

6.15/10.

Wow. There's a good bit of off the charts awesome reviews for this one.

It was good. Lacey Chabert is lovely. But, really?

The Gingerbread Competition plot-line is straight from Food Network. Not really all that imaginative. Also the boyfriend was really daft to not think she would be expecting a proposal.

Check your brain at the door and you'll really enjoy this!

Hopes rise and are dashed; rinse and repeat until the correct path is revealed. The lead character is learning all the way along in what is truly a nice story to watch. Well acted too.

Cute movie ... I liked all the characters except for the leading man, Nick! He was annoying and such a jerk sometimes! I especially loved the sisters' dynamic! it was so fun and very real!

I love Christmas movies, even when they make me roll my eyes at all the Christmas cliches (snowball fight, anyone?). This one has all the cliches, but somehow, I don't roll my eyes.

The difference is the actors. They rise above what could be a trite Christmas confection and draw you into the story and make you care about what happens. Jonathan Adams is wonderful, Lacey Chabert is believable, and the rest, esp. Lea Coco, Brenden Sunderland, Lara Gilchrist, Brenda Critchlow do a really good job.

I'd watch this one again. Thumb's up!

The looongest movie about a gingerbread competition😴

There is really nothing bad to say about this movie. Lea Coco looks like my dentist...all I could really think about. Things fall into place. I can live with the baking theme. Lacey Chabert is cute enough and all good. Good all around cast. Setting..typical...Ralphie is a treat.

She has competition, but for me Lacey Chabert is the queen of the Hallmark film, as she seems to have such grace and charm while carrying off even the most cheesy/sugary sweet material.

The story works, there's enough chemistry between the two leads - two essentials for a Hallmark film, and we even get 'Last Man Standing' star Jonathan Adams popping up in a supporting role.

Great stuff.

Watching the 2017 "The Sweetest Christmas" movie was part of my December 2024 Christmas movie marathon. Of course I had never heard about the movie prior to watching it, but with it being a Hallmark movie and the cover, I figured I would be in for an archetypical sappy Christmas movie.

Lo and behold, that I was. Hallmark didn't fail to deliver here, if you enjoy their particularly formulaic and generic Christmas movies, then you're in for a treat. The storyline in "The Sweetest Christmas", as written by Erinne Dobson, was about as generic as they come, for better or worse. But I suppose that is just pure gold for the diehard fans of the sappy Christmas movies. I found the movie to be watchable, but it was a rather forgettable and generic movie.

The only familiar face on the screen, of all the cast members, were Lacey Chabert. I will say, that for a movie of this sappy kind, the acting performances were fair.

"The Sweetest Christmas" is not a movie that I will return to watch a second time. Nor is it going to become a Christmas classic.

My rating of director Terry Ingram's 2017 movie "The Sweetest Christmas" lands on a five out of ten stars.

On another Hallmark movie I said what things I need to see to enjoy one of these, I won't go through that again except to clarify that sometimes you can't describe it, it just works or it doesn't. Lacey has had some minor misfires but she remains the most consistently effective performer in the Hallmark Christmas stable. This is no exception. I don't know why Lacey shines so well in these, but she is always very cute, often tough yet vulnerable, and usually into her role and believable. This one works the formula well.