A Christmas Carousel

OoooFfff.. Painfully BAD. I'll be the first to admit I love a well done "royal" Christmas movie, and always look forward to them each year. They're hit or miss, and this one is realllllllllyyyyyyy a MISS. Rachel Boston is at the top of my "I wish they'd retire" list, and Neal Bledsoe is pretty hard to watch as well. It seems like Hallmark was trying to emulate the "nostalgia" of A Godwink Christmas (with the carousel), and the sentiments of Christmas with a Prince (equally as bad... -maybe even worse). Like another said, this year has been a lame year for Hallmark. I'll take Quality of Quantity, too!! There's basically nothing to spoil, since the story is predictable within the first 5 minutes. The best royal movies, in my opinion will remain: A Princess for Christmas, Crown for Christmas, and A Royal Christmas. Watch at your own risk. *And Hallmark, should you read this...... PLEASE just STOP using the same tired actors and actresses. And for the love of ALL that is holy, -PLEASE get new writers, actors, costumes and locations!!!!

I haven't always been a fan of Rachel Boston. She has tried to portray an over the top quirky and adorable 20 year old character for far too long. She needed to realize that she's older and needed to act more her age. Then came her movie the previous year about the competitive family inn's. I loved that movie. It was my favorite of last Christmas. She was finally more believeable, mature and appealing. I looked forward to seeing her in a movie for the first time ever. This movie was a little disappointing. The male actor was great, I'd love to see him cast in more movies in the future. Rachel Boston just didn't make sense. I didn't feel it. It wasn't believable and she didn't seem like a good fit with the future King. She kind of barreled over royal behaviors and traditions and it just wasn't endearing to me. I still liked the movie well enough though.

Had high hopes for this one, but gave up early because the dialogue was just too artificial. The artificial accent from the prince added to the difficulty. I see from another reviewer's comments that it apparently has a really good wrap up in terms of visual sequences, character closure, and plot resolution, which sounds just like what I was hoping for from this movie, but it was too off-putting right at the start for me to be able to get there.

This was poorly done. The acting was actually good but Bledsoe's fake accent was AWFUL, good thing it wasn't in 95% of the scenes......Oh wait. The sets were cheap and it showed, and the some of the wardrobe is ridiculous, and I'm not just talking about Bledsoe wearing children's size clothing. The dialogue was confused as if it was written by 2 different people, one of them terrible at it. When these little annoyances are nearly every single scene, it just becomes too much

I could tell it wasn't going to get better, but we watched it from beginning to end. It didn't get better.

No chemistry, no story, acting was terrible, and usually in a movie like this, the location saves the movie...not this one.

I hate reviewing movies negatively.