Pumpkin Pie Wars

Hallmark movies that bring back actors/actresses from other favorite films of mine, immediately a winner for me! Christmas with the Kranks is a holiday favorite of mine and seeing one of the main actresses (the daughter) be cast in this Hallmark movie was a great surprise for me. I was excited to watch this as soon as she was introduced!

Right away, I thought the plot of this movie was great and I love how this family feud is being passed down from the moms and onto their grown children. As all of these films have cheesy plots or storylines, I thought this one was a good balance of corny & good storytelling.

I love a good love story with a sappy ending and I'm glad this movie included romance and friendship into its focus.

I would watch this again, sweet movie!

I found the two lead characters believable. The lead female role's baking / kitchen scenes were comical. The male role lead was a good fit and found the two had good chemistry. Both mothers role were a bit tiresome nearing the end and I thought was an over kill through the whole movie. We got the point they were enemies but the jabs and angry comments grew old.

Hallmark now produces movies at almost soap opera pace. In fall 2017 it appears there will be six of the Autumn/Halloween movies. This volume means a lot of them are hackneyed and redundant. However, some are better than others and this falls in that category. Of course we all know how they will end. The joy is in the journey I guess. That being said I think there are four factors that make or break a Hallmark Movie.

First, are the lead roles good characters with depth and well acted. Second, does the romance seem to be real or contrived. Third, are the comedy portions of the movie actually funny. (I would say this is an oft neglected factor for Halmark) Fourth, are there a few nice quirks to the story line to add some drama. All four are true here to one degree to another. Here too the actual dialogue was of better quality than most Hallmarks. Meaning you don't have characters constantly saying thingsthat no human being would ever say to another.

The negative to this movie is that there were no neat subplots or side characters to round out the story. On the positive side it was consistently well acted, paced, with a nice twist at the end that make it a movie to see next Fall.

I mentioned this film in another review as an example of a good Hallmark movie, so I felt I should review it. This movie has everything, good leads who can act and have chemistry, the story was logical and the supporting cast was good. It had a good script that was believable and the dialog is good, this was a feel good rom-com. Don't know why Julie Gonzalo and Eric Aragon weren't cast together in any other Hallmark films, this was released in 2016.

This was a great autumn feel good film as everything about the film was amazing, especially the main characters, Casey and Sam. I loved everything about this film, the characters were funny, sweet, cute and dare I say adorable to watch. However, the true highlight of the entire film was the love story between Casey and Sam, watching them competing, working together, helping each other and along the way fell in love, became a couple, all while trying to keep it a secret from their mothers. Plus I though the ending was one of the sweetest and most happiest endings EVER. This was definitely one of the most entertaining and sweetest Hallmark Autumn films and one of my personal favourites.