The Christmas Doodle

It's a difficult to know how to review this. I LOVED the message of the film, and I love the heart of the family who made the film. The scenery is great.

The actors are not A-listers, but they are also not the worst I've seen. I could not do as good a job as they do, and I love that they put their heart into what they do (without letting nay-sayers stop them).

I felt similarly about the music - Ioving the message, but knowing I wouldn't choose these songs to listen to for entertainment's sake.

As other reviewers have said, sometimes the scenes seemed longer than necessary - like fillers.

It was a short film, and I'm glad I took the time to watch it.

I'm sorry but some people must be super cynical. This is a story about a dad and daughter who lost their wife/mother the year before. The dad meets a neighbor who is lonely and kind, and she has a doodle. They hit it off. I love the Christmas songs and I think this simple story of faith is a delight. It's about moving forward when life has been difficult. Who doesn't need to see a good story about that once in a while? Sure, it wasn't made with a big budget but I think it does the job and the Christmas music is awesome. It was a family made project and I think it's great a family pulled together to make this film.

The writing wasn't super. The acting wasn't Oscar worthy. The filming looks like it might have been made with a phone or something.

But, the movie does contain a hopeful and beautiful message, and that is the reason I watched it.

It's not often that a movie is made with faith as the driving force.

It's a nice movie.

I didn't really care anything about the dog.

The following is just filler.

I'm somewhat disappointed that the site requires you to write a minimum of 400 letters in order to leave a review. I'm not trying to spoil the movie for anyone, but instead, let you know a little bit about the message.

This is not a glossy movie, but low budget home-movie feel - not necessarily a problem for me, especially as filmed in the Pandemic, but the poor sound balance is a put-off. The only reason we selected this show was because we were struggling to find ones with subtitles and this does, but defo needed them as speaking / sound effects / music levels weren't ideal! There's not a lot of speaking, rather many scenes with songs playing (not particularly a fan as too many tracks, although provides a break from regular festive soundtracks. Again, maybe that makes it different from the hundreds of other Christmas movies.

So I was searching Christmas movies on Netflix and this one showed in the list of suggestions. We have a Golden doodle so I thought this would be the perfect movie to watch. It didn't take me long once the movie started to realize this was not going to be a good movie experience. A Pre-school Christmas pageant would be more entertaining. Also I have never seen a movie on Netflix filmed with an iPhone before. This movie is so bad it has ruined my Christmas.

I can never look at our dog the same way again so I had to take him outside and shoot him. Now the kids are crying, I've got a dead dog and it's Christmas morning. Thank you Christmas doodle for ruining our Christmas day.

*okay okay I didn't actually shoot our dog calm down already but this movie could induce many things including violence and vomiting.

Oh gosh I need Pepto-Bismol.