Sister Dating Swap

Another mediocre Reel One Entertainment TV movie killed by awful writing. It's a shame because movie is technically fine. Even location is faked, it's nothing immersion breaking as stock footage was used really minimal, so no complains from me. I don't know why previous reviewer mention Hallmark, it has nothing with them. It's actually their main competitor who is relatively popular here in Europe.

The cast is so-so. I never watched Lauren Collins before but I guess script and director "forced" her to overreact whole movie. It was awful to watch her. IMO, Romaine Waite and Bobby Del Rio were the best. Too bad that Bobby Del Rio didn't have more screen time.

The movie is killed by awful writing for me. I like comedies, but not this type. I actually used 10 sec skip function in few scenes how bad was. It's just sad as actually ROE has some pretty good one. If you expect romance, skip it as there is only some really at the end so basically nothing. I'll try to write as short possible about issues as there are so many...

Both sisters Helena and Rachel are just unrelatable in the opposite ways. And it doesn't change to the very late in the movie. Miles is a widowed single dad, but I'm sorry, he was bad, too. His daughter Isobel was typical acting your intellectual age trope which would be fine if she was pre-teen, but ~7 year old talking about adult things right from the bat. Seriously?! Only Ryan was relatable. Even his sister Maya wasn't good either. Its just sad that the antagonist who was potrayed as your typical white bad capitalist (Jonathan) was the most convincing.

And then there is Act III when everything was rushed. At least I can buy Rachel's ending, but Helena? She even in the end said that she couldn't believe that... Yea, neither did I, and I think nobody else. Sounds like a inside joke by writer. I mean love is not always logical (there is no logic in her ending), but in Helena and Miles case there was basically nothing. It just happened.

You can just watch 2:14 min long trailer as it's the ROE one and for some unknown reason(s) it shows whole movie compressed. You'll miss nothing important.

In theory this is a good pair of storylines, sisters swapping country and city lives, but in practice it doesn't quite shine. I don't think there's quite enough time to develop both plots, they're a bit bland as no time for original twists so it becomes two mediocre romcoms rather than one great movie. Similarly, the characters are real but not the most likeable. However the ending has some good movement and even allows for a sequel of some kind. Weirdly, the title Sister Dating Swap, doesn't really make sense - they don't swap dates, merely locations, but maybe they had to hurriedly change the name due to other movies.

Maybe, comfortable sounds as the fair term for define this Hallmark romcom.

The two sisters, their holidays, the help for a business and the love in bloom, few absurd scenes and few nice moments. Enough for fans of genre, pleasant for the others. And, not last, so familiar than not predactibility is the obvious point but the sweet state of familiar refuge after a tough day.

Sure, the duel for pizza shop is just cool and the poor man rolling basic propositions in foreign languages sounds pretty. But the film remains only a pale copy of movies who you know. And this, in final, is its only virtue.