Le Pays de Noël

5.9 stars.

'Christmas Land' is a story about nothing. A woman inherits a cool Christmas village that she used to enjoy as a child. Her grandmother ran the place, what sort of place, we really don't know. It's like an amusement park, but mainly just a bunch of little shops and stuff. I guess this is the place for people all around to come for Christmas to get into the spirit of the season. But the place has been rundown for a while, I suppose grandma couldn't maintain it near the end of her life and then she passed away and gave the town to her granddaughter. Granddaughter doesn't really want the place, but the people of the town are hoping she will reignite the magic of Christmas Land. You can guess what transpires, the monumental mistakes that are made, and the "evil" real estate mogul that interferes, and eventually how this ends, but you would be wrong. Not my favorite, far from it.

My son told me to watch this one as part of my 100 Christmas movies before Christmas day challenge.

I'm glad he did as I really enjoyed it. I love how Christmassy it is. I would love to live there haha.

It was a nice movie and I will watch it again.

It is a Xmas movie, right? How the heck do they have an immoral, greedy real estate developer come out a huge winner? On top of that they put him (Mason) in a major scene with townspeople and it is all smiles. When they should have been running him out of town tarred and feathered.

How Mason became a 'winner' is nonsensical. It calls for signing a million dollar+ contract with a 'stranger' and without reading it.

Two weeks to renovate a run down Christmas Land and all we see is a single purchase of a few cans of paint. Voila, it is magically as great looking as in years gone by.

Did you know that a coffee can,not even a large one, cannot hold hundreds of thousands of dollars? Finally, our 'hero' attorney can not come up with a single creative approach to help nail greedy, immoral Mason.

This is not quite up to middling Hallmark Xmas movie standards (low enough anyway) but I wasn't as outraged at the ending as many others (perhaps because I read the spoilers first?) Enjoyable for 70 minutes or so and nonsensical for the rest, but I'm not going to complain.

I love the 3 main characters in this movie; Jules the grand daughter heir to Christmas land (Nikki Deloach), Tucker (Luke Macfarlane) the good guy, and Mitchell the bad for you boyfriend. Nikki Deloach was in "A Dream of Christmas" this year- which was a much better movie (I hope she continues to do Christmas movies). I really enjoyed the first 30 minutes, liked the second 30 minutes but the final part of the movie really lagged. Richard Karn (Home Improvements Al) character just didn't work. I noticed they put well known actresses like Cynthia Gibbs and Maureen McCormick in such really small parts. I loved that they put Chonda Pierce in the movie and that worked well. Most of the reviews hated the ending of the story and I agree. I would recommend watching it though.