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Unfortunately, this was a movie whose sequel did more to harm than help. The first movie was charming and sweet, and more significantly, had all of its loose ends very neatly wrapped up. Why Hallmark chose this movie of all of them to continue, I can't understand. The sequel's biggest flaw is that, aside from the same characters and background settings, it has virtually nothing in common with with its predecessor. The plot of the second movie is completely disjointed from the first, focused mainly around the rescue of a rec center that means absolutely nothing to the audience. Not only is this trope horribly overused, but it definitely didn't fit into this sequel.

To make matters worse, whatever chemistry Darcy and Aiden had between them in the first movie has completely evaporated in this one. For the majority of the movie, they seem like little more than friends hanging out rather than a loving couple.

If you enjoyed A Gift to Remember, do yourself a favor and skip the sequel.

Darcy and Aiden are magical together in this Hallmark Christmas movie. A year later you still have Chaucer's book store, their wonderful friends Luigi and Mrs. Henley, and Bailey the dog. In this movie, they try to save a historic landmark. Darcy and Aiden are so cute together and are so enjoyable to watch. I would have liked a different story line other than the Christmas Village gift...maybe something about surprising Darcy his "real" Christmas gift. All the actors are charismatic and made this a memorable Christmas movie.

I was disappointed in Ali Leibert in this one. I loved her in A Gift to Remember, but there was just something different about her in this go round. The character's personality was just as sweet and overly nice, but she just didn't connect with me and I can't quite put my finger on it. I found the character of Mrs. Henley very irritating as well. She is taking care of her nephew during the season because both of his parents are deployed. He was behaving like a perfectly nice if a little reserved kid, and she was all worried and hovering just because he didn't behave all joyful and Christmas-y every second. She just wouldn't rest until he conformed to her expectations of how happy he was supposed to be. She was not disappointed. The kid was bouncing off the walls by the end. I also think the young actor was mis-cast. Perhaps he was supposed to be adopted. Peter Porte was just fine. In fact, he kind of saved this one for me.

We enjoyed the film more than we expected! Positive responses to the story. And that Dominic Mariche is amazing! I'm going to watch for subsequent work from him!

I enjoyed the first movie, this one was difficult to watch. Thinking a weak story line had much to do with my lack of interest watching the flick. Given a better script this could have produced a much better rating