Jingle Belle

Nothing "ethnic" about it, American actor doing a movie for the season. Background music is too loud, can't hear some of the dialogue.

Plastic smiles and dito accidental tear, hollow characters, overloud background music, predictable plot (even the 'twist'), life in a super sweet smalltown versus bad, bad big town. A boring lovestory, all wrapped around the creation of a horrible, horrible song. Yes, it has it all and yes, it is a toe curling movie. The only reason I finished watching it was that I was sort of trapped on a sofa during a family moment.

The premise of this movie is almost exactly like at least one other Christmas movie and very similar to several others. It had the potential to sink into obscurity. But after 2/3rds or so there is an interesting twist that puts a different take on the story. Unfortunately, after that other overused tropes sneak back into the story so it ends up in the same place, but what else can you expect when there are only so many possible outcomes.

Most of the acting is solid. The leads have a chemistry as they revisit their past. There is some good solid soul searching by those same characters.

Sometimes it's hard to judge the quality of acting when humor is involved especially if the humor is exaggerated. In this case though, I think it's definitely true that Loretta Devine, as the unethical boss, has some horrible acting moments.

The movie includes performance of some traditional Christmas songs by a youth choir and one of an original song by the leads.

This was such a sweet holiday movie. It made feel all warm and fuzzy for the upcoming holiday. I adored Tatiana's singing and loved seeing the all star cast. Lifetime make more movies like this!!!

Tatyana ali cornelius smith jr weak leads in this movie no musical ability comes through.she has a horrible attitude.