Christmas Inc.

This movie is adorable and the chemistry is totally there! Despite having a bias for anything Andrew Walker, this movie completely delivered. It was cute, sweet, not entirely predictable, and my husband wasn't making puking faces at me the entire movie. As long as you don't think through the actual logistics of the movie, you will like it. Andrew does a great, believable bah humbug character and Shenae Grimes-Beech is adorable, like always. Although it follows a typical Hallmark movie story line, it still feels fresh and new!

Favorite line: "You can't cut me off from Christmas ornaments!!"

The movie begins with Riley Vance (Shenae Grimes-Beech) struggling to find employment when she gets a tip on a personal assistant job. When they call her name to be interviewed they call Riley V., and while in the interview she realizes that the interview was suppose to be for Riley Vanderdale but she was already committed and hired so she just goes with it. So Riley becomes the assistant to William Young (Steve Lund) who has inherited his father's massive company and is challenged to perform well to prove his worth. William is faced with possibly closing the company's flagship toy factory in Dover, New Hampshire. While in Dover several delightful characters are introduced such as Piper (Hannah Spear) who is resourceful, delightful and fills several roles for the town; Mayor Martin Keegan (Ron Lea) is cheerful, funny and provides William with wonderful advice; the sheriff, and several others contribute to the fun.

The chemistry between Riley and William feels real and you know they will be great together. This is a fun and romantic movie that shares to spirit of Christmas.

Victor J

We love the Hallmark movies but found this one a bit lacking. Sure the story was weak but that was not our objection. The dialog was very stilted and didn't at all seem real. A lack of chemistry made us wonder why a mature guy would fall for a teenager (that what she acted like). I'll blame this one on the writers. We had just finished re-watching A Christmas to Remember which we absolutely loved loved loved so maybe getting this weaker effort on the rebound didn't help. Not a complete waste of time, but switch to the other Hallmark channel if you can find something there.

6.0 stars.

I'm not sure how anyone could have ignored the awkward and mismatched relationship and dialogue between the leads, which was most difficult to watch. I figured it was a fluke at first, but it continued and continued and continued. They are not synchronized at all.

His acting style seemed very forced, maybe because he was uncomfortable with the part, or he was actually so infatuated with her in real life that he couldn't contain his angst. Additionally, she was bland and uninterested, and as a result totally uninteresting. Near the end they are attempting to express feelings and moments that never existed. It's a very strange experience watching them push a romance that just isn't there.

The grinch reporter was very easy to loathe, and it was nice to have an antagonist for once that we could sink our teeth into (not in the usual positive sense).

I give it 6.0 stars instead of 5.0 because the story was well done, saving a town, saving a man's boyhood joy of Christmas, the portrayal of a very intelligent and capable executive assistant... these qualities of the film were flawless, but could not capably carry the dead weight.

The plot was of course unoriginal, but so are 95% of these Hallmarks, and many of them pass my litmus test of re-watchability. 'Christmas Incorporated' deplorably failed.

We'll just go with this: the officer who pulled over Mr Young claims to be the sheriff. Yet the squad car and the precinct building both say police.