Will You Merry Me?

Who thought that a movie about mixed religious Christmas / Hanukkah would be be cute and funny.... well, it ain't...

With a very solid cast and very well made indeed for a TV movie this should be enjoyable but the embarrassment factor is squirmy rather than funny.

Honestly, some of these jokes are borderline offensive and not even in a funny way just huh, whatever type of way.

I get why this might have worked but we gave up after his parents put an orthodox rabbi figure up on the roof to compliment Santa, oh c'mon....

We just couldn't see what was so great about this and just gave it a miss....

For the person who was offended, lighten up! I am Jewish married to a very Catholic wife. The jokes were fine. Some were a little dumb, meaning too obvious or assumed overly stupid characters, but, offensive, no. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but, in this case, a joke is a joke. I can't imagine they intended to offend anyone. My parents were not thrilled I married non-Jewish and that was almost 25 years ago. Surely society has changed since then too. Since this is a Christmas movie, the settings for the comedy were appropriate if too predictable. It's not a great movie but it's certainly a Christmas movie worth watching.

As a Christian and Catholic, I found this movie to be offensive. It portrays a Christian family that is VERY extreme in it's celebration of Christmas. The mother of the Christian boy borders on a lunatic in the way she talks about Christmas and the way she interacts with the Jewish mother and father. The movie seems to monger sympathy for the Jewish mother and father in this unreal Christian community where everyone is completely obsessed with Christmas. For me, it's a less than subtle way of Christian bashing in this movie, which reveals the Jewish family as rational, stable and hip and contrasting the Christian family as irrational, unstable and square.

If someone wants to review something, that's fine. But PLEASE try to use proper grammar! The first trivia has every THEIR, THEY'RE, and THERE used incorrectly. THEIR symbolizes possessions....their home, their children, their idea. THEY'RE is simply a contraction of two words...they and are...THEY'RE coming, THEY'RE outside. THERE is a place....look over there, put it down there. End of lesson. Sorry if you're offended, but this is taught in grammar school!

When I first saw this movie, I was literally laughing out loud at the decorations of the groom's hometown. So reminiscent of my own hometown as a kid where had similar traditions. (No cell phones, computers back then!!) Hilarious!! What I really liked was the introduction to Jewish traditions for Hanukah, which I've never seen in a Christmas movie. It was also fabulous seeing Wendie Malick. She is a phenomenal actress! Cynthia Stevenson also phenomenal- batty and wacky! The two of them being so different and then finding a way to come together is one of the best things. The husbands are marginally supportive, but let the mothers duke it out. The relationship between the two young lovers is also great, but as a mother of daughters, I would be highly suspicious of a relationship of six months becoming so serious after such a short time. However, I'm not sure how old the two are so maybe they've already been around the relationship block before. Overall a great movie and I look for it every year!!