Santa Girl

I love the cheesy Hallmark movies. This isn't that kind of quality. I felt like it was some low budget film school project, and after reading the other reviews it sounds like that is exactly what it was. The only redeeming part of this entire film is Pep. She was great. I gave her 10 stars and everything else dragged down my ratings.

Yeah but watch out for McKayla Witt as "Pep". This one has real comedic chops. She's absolutely adorable and demonstrates natural instincts for comedic performance. Utterly charming.

There something that just doesn't work in this movie. There are cheesy performances and scenes, distracting changes in photographic techniques that don't appear to have any artistic value. The editing and shot selections sometimes seem jostled and cobbled together. Even some of the dialogue and acting seem haphazard and spontaneous but not in a good comedic way. While the story outline held promise, the script needed a lot more work. The typical triangle of one girl and two boys doesn't come across the screen in smooth way as they struggle to relate to one another, it's almost as if the actors themselves were unsure of how to play their parts. It's not that the movie is a tangled mess, the plot somehow holds together and the effort to make this a palatable movie is more than apparent, it's just that it doesn't quite come together as a finished product. It's not absolutely terrible and it may be worth seeing if one is really bored and there don't seem to be many other options

This was so aweful, I couldn't even finish it.

The "Santa Claus" actor is so terrible, there is a reason this guy only acts in "B" feeling movies anymore. Thr filming and production was so bad it was painful to watch even the 20 minutes I could get through. I had to stop watching because it was just so sexist, and the personality of the Santa Claus character was just so nasty. The way he treated the elves and others in general was so deplorable. He's supposed to be a role model for pete sake. I stopped watching when Santa was talking to Jack frost. He can't even get the names of his elves straight? I don't like the sleezy feel of Santa in this. HARD PASS.

The storyline is problematic, but the characters and the actors are the bigger issues. The main storyline hinges on an arranged marriage for Santa's teenage daughter, a plot device that is outdated. The main characters are completely unlikeable and poorly acted. It's hard to have much empathy for any of them. I finished this movie because I was watching it with my son. It qualifies as a family friendly Christmas movie so it gets a few stars.