Romance with a Twist

This film had some issues, but it was fun to explore a different topic for a Hallmark romantic film and smart to use an actress with former ballet training.

Premise:Luna gave up her dreaming dance to help her family out in their construction business. Her best friend is responsible for putting together an arts festival that is pairing professionals with local talent...including her brother who is a famous Olympic gymnast and now does silk Aerials for a Cirque du Soleil-like show. He gets paired with Luna, agreeing with his sister to give her one week.

The two main actors were cute and the premise was did enough it was worth watching. While not my favorite Hallmark offering, I appreciate that they are trying new things.

The leading lady looks and sounds like Geena Davis! They have to be related. If not they should be. Talent and strong women. The man was perfect for this movie as well.

Hallmark is always great for giving a good movie but just wish they weren't SO predictable.

Why so many words for a review? Seems a bit much but I want my point made about Geena Davis. This girl should have been cast in the new Beetlejuice movie.

Like Goldie Hawn and Kate Hudson look so much alike it's uncanny.

Amazing artistry in this movie so win win all around.

On a scale from 1 to 10, 10 being highest I'd give it a 7.5 😉.

Jocelyn Hudon is gorgeous. There, got that out of the way. Truth be told, her presence in this film that is basically about dancing is the only reason I watched it. And I'm actually glad that I did, because Hudon, as Luna, lights up the screen whenever she is on it.

Non-spoiler alert - the plot is Hallmark standard: two people who don't meet and start off by butting heads as they come together to achieve something - in this case it's an artistic dance routine at an arts festival - and end up falling in love with each other. Familiar trope, new setting.

Hudon and Oliver Renaud as Bennett have pretty good chemistry, once the initial scripted standoffishness is a thing of the past.

The story is a little rough at times. Rough outline, it sounds like another one of those where the leads get thrown together to do a project, and more specifically to do a performance. You could call this a dance performance in the air. But it starts out rough. Olivier Renaud does everything he can to make his character, Bennet, a spoiled, arrogant former Olympian with no tact whatsoever. What I found more disturbing was how much real hurt was inflicted on Luna. But she's no snowflake. She stood up to it and gave some back.

There are some ups and downs for just about all the major characters. Some of the actors handled that better than others, with Jocelyn Hudon being one of the better. Through all their practices and rehearsals, it didn't seem like this could become anything worth watching. But if you don't watch anything else in this movie, you have to watch their performance. I have no idea how much either of the stars did on the silks. Probably not a lot except the still shots, but the performance was beautiful. The stunt doubles should get first page credit in this movie. (Michel Bray, Emma Carrothers and Edio Silvio).

The ending was sweet too.

No chemistry and boring boring boring.like watching lumps of clay. The arial stuff was lame and brought nothing to the show. There was about 30 seconds of dancing, and it was like watching somebody warm up in a ballet studio. It brought nothing to the show. All around garbage really. The actors had no chemistry together at all. Nothing made you care about these characters or their story. Very pedestrian. I would not recommend wasting your time watching this movie. If you happen to be laid up with a broken leg and there's nothing else to do feel free to waste two hours of your life otherwise I just finding anything else to watch. When I read some of those great reviews, I feel like Hallmark must pay them to write such stuff because it's so not reflective of what was in the show.