Noël au soleil

A couple of meddling kids try to get their parents to fix their marriage over the Christmas in Palm Springs while handling some work projects. Dina Meyer is pretty as always and she is paired with her Starship Troopers costar Patrick Muldoon. They are likeable together.

The story isn't that interesting and the kids are a little annoying. As far as these holiday movies go it's an average story with a nice cast.

I found this on Tubi and wish I hadn't...

Two parents are separated and the kids book them into the same hotel to try to get them together. Sounds great, except the characters, especially the father, are pretty unlikeable. An early scene is typical: dad turns up to the mum's house, then refuses to leave when she asks. I'm all for saving marriages, but you don't violate your partner's personal space to do so.

Anyway, the dad and the mum end up in the same hotel on their work trips, along with the kids (who have been brought along with their mum). The kids, and at times the dad, do pranks to sabotage her work and try to force their parents together. Oh and the dad physically assaults the mum's boss in one scene out of jealousy, but the movie presents that as fine.

I'm not sure who this is aimed at. It's not comedy. It's not a kids' movie - the kids are relatively minor characters and there is one quite adult scene involving gawking at a woman in her bikini. If it's meant to be a romance it's very poorly done. It's better just avoided.

The storyline is okay for a christmas movie. But the actors just didn't do the movie any justice. Only the character Gabriel did it for me. There was no connection between the father/mother and kids. You couldn't really get carried away with in the whole situation, it lacked spark and sense of feeling. Really too bad, because it could Have been an okay christmas movie

Very good movie. James Welch Henderson Arkansas 11/9/2020

Possibly, the worst film I've seen. Zero chemistry between the two of them and zero charisma from the lead male. The lead man and kids were unbelievably annoying and it was impossible to root for them or even empathise with them.