Noël au palace

Using the Plaza as a setting was a great idea... it was beautiful! A pretty solid story too... one of the best Christmas movies I've seen so far this year. The only thing I would have changed was to have more of the history of the Plaza and finials in the movie. ❤❤❤

Come on everyone, this is a Hallmark Movie, not an Academy Award contender for Best Picture.

Hallmark does more than 20 movies alone for Christmas. They are usually shot in Canada, shot quickly, with a minimal budget and any "stars" are ones who are no longer in their prime, such as Bruce Davidson and Julia Duffy in this movie. This one they spent a bit more since it was shot in NYC.

It's funny on here when they ask if there's spoilers in the reviews. They all have the same plot and story line. Boy and Girl meet, the fall in love without realizing it, one of them is already in a relationship, they both make incorrect assumptions, about 2/3s of the way through the movie they say they can't be together/it won't work out/etc and in the end they realize their mistakes and live happily ever after.

Come on, they aren't too realistic in the first place. The day Jessica and Nick go to the Christmas store, they took his van, yet walked 10 blocks down 5th Ave by Rockefeller Center to see the tree and skaters,walked another 7 blocks south to Bryant Park, then walked down to the east Village to the store and then go back to the Plaza to talk to Reggie? Yet Jessica still had the time to go home to change into her dress for dinner with Dennis at 6, stop by and see her friend at work (in bright sunlight), get to Dennis on time, leave there, go to the Plaza afterwards and then go with Nick to his parent's house for the party? I'm exhausted just thinking about that day!

These are cutsie, holiday movies that are supposed to make you smile, not big blockbuster award contenders,

I watch A LOT of cheesy Christmas movies, and this one was just SO boring. The male lead was believable enough, but the female lead sounded as if she was just. so. depressed. with. every. single. word. she. said. Annoyed the cr*p out of me. Everything she said and did was without any sort of enthusiasm AT ALL. She didn't even feel like finishing her job, just because she didn't get the help she'd expected. And the uncaring boyfriend trope is a little overused in Hallmark movies. And the ex-girlfriend swooping in and not really causing any problems, what the duck was that? Also, why do they add music before cutting the scenes? It's usually a problem with these kinds of low budget movies, but this was a really bad case. There was this one scene, in which they made the music fade out, but they didn't cut until we'd heard a split second of the next music fade in. Did they let the intern produce it? (My apologies to the intern, if this was their first try.) Nah, don't waste your time on this.

The source of seduction - Ryan Paevey and the supportive actors, decent working romance and the frame of finial d' arbre. A very familiar recipe but ldecent and,witn few scenes, wise used. So, real nice. The star, obvious, is Bruce Davison for his lovely, friendly , sensitive and vulnerable character. A film who desrve see it.

Just about enjoyable.

'Christmas at the Plaza' gets slightly uninteresting in parts, but I largely had a solid enough time with it. I enjoyed the hotel setting, as well as the heavy Xmas vibes. Elizabeth Henstridge is good in the lead role, her (Jessica) and Ryan Paevey (Nick) have suitable chemistry. I also liked Bruce Davison as Reginald.

The story is a pleasant one, which involves a decent amount of heart. It's, albeit narrowly, worth a watch.