Merry Swissmas

A Swiss Family Christmas/Merry Swissmas (2022) -

In the leading male role of Liam, Tim Rozon was not quite as sexy as his character Mutt in 'Schitt's Creek' (2015-20), but his character was still charming and attractive, because of his softly spoken and mild manner. I wasn't sure why he fell for Alex (Jodie Sweetin) though, because she was a stroppy cow and too high maintenance for his calm relaxed personality.

I liked the quantity of Swiss traditions and words used to show a different view of the season. It hasn't always worked when they've tried to do this in a film and it did seem a bit like they'd written a list of things to cover and written dialogue to connect each event rather than writing them in to an existing romance story, but it was still interesting.

I thought that the friendship, when troubled, reconciled a bit too early on. Perhaps I'm just used to the usual formula that has it all happening 15 minutes before the end, but it left very little anticipation.

And there were a couple of moments that were a stretch to believe as well. Also, Louis was too much!

With all that said, I didn't mind it and because of Tim, I probably would revisit the story again and as a way of trying to remember the Swiss Christmas ceremonies and traditions, because seasonal culture is something that I love.

669.49/1000.

The setting and culture is beautiful, but unfortunately the fun gets lost as many of the secondary characters are insensitive, controlling and pushy yet judge the lead when she can't cope with their constant bad behaviour. Whilst I know that's sadly a realistic storyline, I struggled to watch this movie once and certainly couldn't last a second viewing, which is a shame as I liked the Swiss details and artwork. To be fair though, they maybe could do a sequel where the drama comes from uncontrollable events rather than controlling characters eg delays in delivery, accidents etc and the community (that several of the people moved there for) coming together to support each other.

Besides the lack of chemistry between the leading couple, the story is awful.

This girl is forced to accept a relationship, a situation she didn"t heal. It's sad when people don"t respect our decisions or our feelings. O felt her mom was out of line. No, because it's Christmas it doesn"t mean you have to firgive and forget everything. Yes, she needs to move on, but not forced into it. And then the situation with Liam, two weeks there and now she has to decide if she stays or leave for good cause it could hurt his kid... What!!!! It's been two damn weeks... Honestly I would have skipped that trip.

While I haven't been to Switzerland (yet), from friends who have, this seemed to be a poor representation of the country at Christmas, which I'm told is pretty spectacular. I guess the holiday traditions portrayed were genuine? Did anyone bother researching?

The second issue -- as much as I adore Jodie Sweetin, there was ZERO chemistry with the inn manager, who was about as dry as toast, and pretty emotionless. I've loved watching Sweetin in other Christmas movies, as well as her Full House co-star, Candace Cameron Bure, they make cheesy Christmas movies fun to watch during the season, and I mean that as a compliment!

Yes it was cheesey. No it wasn't particularly well acted but, come on.

It's a formulaic hour and half of escapism in the run up to Christmas. If you want high brow Christmas movies watch Scrooge, Miracle on 34th Street etc.

This film is like all the others of this genre. A bit saccharine but you can have it on whilst also doing other things as it doesn't demand your upmost attention. That makes it a plus in my book.

It's a reasonable film to while away some time. Enjoy it for it is. Light hearted entertainment. A 'Feel good' film.

Not up to Hallmark standards, but not bad.

Give it a try. ..