Marions-nous à Noël!

This is a wedding planner movie where she has too little time for the wedding her sister always dreamed of. The leads were friends as children on her family's tree farm where the three of them (including her sister) made wishes on a wish tree. The sister's wish was to get married at the farm. I bet you can't bet what one of the other wishes was. The male lead Carter later bought the farm - no I mean he purchased it.

The plot follows most of the usual themes including the totally cliché misunderstanding based on what one of them saw from afar. Actually there is not much of a plot besides the wedding. Haley, the planner quickly finds out too many things aren't available on short notice and that consumes most of the story. Since that leaves the story a little thin, Haley's boss has to threaten her periodically because the boss has agreed to another short notice wedding. Trouble is, that thread totally fizzles just as you'd expect.

A movie with a simple plot needs something to hook the audience. Often, that's the relationship between the leads. Just one problem. Haley proceeds to insult every possible vendor she can find, implying in effect that their hick town standards aren't up to her requirements. (Shouldn't "the best wedding planner in LA" know something about tact?) She even disrespects Carter at first. She's annoying. For some reason, it seems to be a requirement in these movies that the leads start out badly in the beginning and then all the disagreements disappear. This is where Cristine Prosperi and Colton Little should have had chemistry. And they had a little, but it wasn't great.

Many reviewers have heavily criticized the acting. The actor playing the sister was pretty good. I don't completely agree that the others were terrible. Most of them were fair, and none of them distracted me with acting. I've seen a lot of movies where the acting is distracting.

This character is so petty you don't feel any empathy for her. She's annoying, arrogant and during the entire movie I was hoping another lead female character would step in and kick her out of town. I'm not sure who wrote her but she's not likeable.

Then there's the lead character who is so nice but we have no idea why he is in love with this woman who is everything he left the big city for.

Haley's boyfriend is just a cliche of a character. And so is Vivica Fox's character...total cliches and boring characters.

And how the heck does a person die by "running out of gas"?

What an annoying movie. Not really worth a second watch.

The only problem with this movie is the over-the-top snobby behavior of the lead actress, which is the writers fault. It isn't believable that someone of her "caliber" would behave that way with potential vendors. It does not endear you to her, which makes the rest of the movie less enjoyable. I would have shut if off in the very beginning but kept it on for background noise as I did other work. Don't recommend if you are wanting a true, heartfelt Christmas movie.

This movie had a lot wrong with it. Probably the most glaring problem was that the Christine Prosperi's acting + a sub-par script. I haven't seen any of Christine's other work but for _this_ movie she wasn't able to carry the role. The worst actor in the movie shouldn't be the lead. I broke out laughing at her "fake typing" skills. I can understand someone faking an instrument that they don't know but the fake typing was bad. The movie cuts corners in a lot of ways. You'd just have to watch to see...or just skip it.

It's ok to have the movie play in the background while doing other things. The story was below average. The leading guy was ok, but the leading lady could use several acting classes. She seemed somewhat fake to me; I was like watching an instagram person, not a real one.