My Sweet Austrian Holiday

This is really a very slow-moving story. After a half-hour they'd done nothing I was interested in. My wife wanted to hang on a little longer, but after another ten minutes she decided to pull the plug on this one.

This is another of the extremely tired "losing business to new development" trope, and it really makes no sense here. I had no interest in the character of the male lead, and very little in the character of the female lead. Really, no tension and no interesting relationship building. Dialogue less interesting than my neighbors gossiping over a fence.

Added to this were very annoying affected British accents ... in Austria? Why? The Canadian actors were the worst, but the Englishman in the lead tried to affect an upper-crust accent that doesn't belong to him. I had to look him up to even convince myself he's actually English.

Not recommended.

6.3 stars.

I worked my way through this story with much patience and low expectations. It has fairly low ratings after all, not in the five zone, but just barely in the six. This indicates, generally speaking, a hit or miss scenario. In this case, it's a big miss for achieving average status and fits securely in the take-it-or-leave-it category, but at least it's better than the could-care-less movies that are actually rare (under 6.0).

So yes, this is below average for sure, it's about as cookie-cutter as can be, and it's about chocolate and about a real estate tycoon who is buying out a building and a person who is trying to save their business. It's probably the most used plot of Hallmark films.

Loved this movie. Brittney Bristow and Will Kemp were wonderful in My Sweet Austrian Holiday. The addition of Catherine Disher was icing on the cake. I always enjoyed her in the Good Witch series, she truly adds a special something to everything she's in.

All of the cast worked well together. The true star of the show was the beautiful scenery. Truly enjoyed watching them walk all around the different places. The Christmas/ Holiday festival was very engaging and festive, really got us in the holiday spirit.

The chocolates, looked amazing and it actually looked like they were eating them!!

We would definitely watch again.

I like Wil Kemp and Brittany Bristow. The storyline is like Kimberley Sustad and Paul Campbell - Starlight Cafe. That movie had some energy behind it. This movie had no flicker of chemistry between Kemp and Bristow at all. The surrounding characters had to tell us there was a spark. I do, I really do like Brittany Bristow but her romantic scenes leave alot to be desired in every movie I have watched. Kissing scenes she looks like she is throwing up a wall of defence, as if her husband was watching. Also the chocoalate tempering scene fails to be realistic. Not one of the better Bristow family projects.

Will Kemp is usually very good in the Hallmark Christmas movies, but even he can't save this mashup of over used Hallmark Christmas movie plots. My wife and I started watching the Hallmark Christmas movies during the pandemic for some light hearted enjoyment, but the repetitive plots get tired after a few years. We gave up on this one within 15 minutes. Been there. Done that! The "the building in peril from a real estate developer" and the "food competition" plots mashed into the same movie and moved to a different city or a different country doesn't make it a "new" story. It's like playing Mad Libs. They change the characters names, the location of the town or city, and combine a few different tropes and think that makes it "new".