Il était une fois Noël

Who in their right mind thought Tara Reid would make a good female lead for a Christmas romance movie? Also, could someone please tell her to straighten her posture.

Tara Reid was horrible at acting. She almost seemed medicated and zoned out.

Tara Reid is, I'm sorry, not what we would believe as the classy, beautiful long-lost love of a prince. She is more box wine than Bordeaux. Ingo Rademacher, usually as dependable an actor as he is handsome, is a particularly charmless prince. Together he and Reid are a totally unlikely love match in this tedious Christmas romance. For Christmas movie fans, there is not much in the California setting to bring that warm holiday glow. The one bright spot is the sweet, effortless performance from Haley Pullos as their daughter Lily. The scenes with and her friend Taylor (Kennedy Lea Slocum) are adorable. There is very little else in this film to recommend it.

As other reviewers have said, whomever cast Ms. Sharknado / American Pie in a serious romantic comedy should be banned from the industry for life. This has the bones of a decent "royal rom com" but with the bad acting, bad directing and sloppy editing it is mess. Too bad. Some of the cast isn't bad but its just not enough to make this watchable.

There is a basis for a good story, but there are too many holes in the plot, bad editing, bad casting, and no chemistry between the main characters.