Rent-an-Elf

This is a cute and charming film. Almost everyone is likeable (close to perfect). It's well written and generally warm.

It's definitely not Seattle in December. That's literally the most unbelievable part, haha. If they really filmed this in the PNW it was probably late spring. Everything is green, lush and sunny.

It just rained 8 days in a row.

I tend to binge Christmas movies starting around the end of November. So through the years I've seen quite a few. But around 90% of the 'TV' movies have no likeable characters, bratty, whiny, or overly sweet children, a**hole boyfriends, clueless parents, etc. But this one has one or two. Ava (The Christmas Elf) & sometimes her two helpers. I generally do not like characters that are cheery all of the time but Ava was a bit different. Not a bad Christmas movie.

In an age where Hallmark seems to value quantity over quality, ION offers a refreshing take on Christmas. Most people do not lead a cookie cutter existence. Family is...well, family. Add in the holidays and... I don't want to put in any spoilers so I'll just say that if you're tired of the scenery over script holiday movies watch 2018 ION original Rent-an-Elf. It's family-friendly and doesn't need a big budget to get the job done : )

For a modern christmas movie, I found the movie to be enjoyable. The emotions put in the movie was done well and proves that hallmark doesn't have to be the channel for holiday films. ION, you did a good one.

I have been watching a ton of Christmas movies. This is the 2nd one this week, (the other one was on Freeform), this one is from ION. that just had to inject a dig against conservatives and politics into it. The main character has a vision board. No problem. What is a problem is it mostly featured photos of 0bama and his family! What the heck is that? This did not even fit the movie AT ALL. And they show it multiple times in the movie. It of course had the words, "compassion" over one set of 0bama photos, and then "Happy Family" and so forth. It was out of place and an obvious "statement". Hey movie makers, leave politics out of your freaking holiday movies. Take a breath and just make a story without bringing in your own political agenda. The movie was okay. Where did they film this? It looked like they filmed it in some Santa's Village somewhere. It moved along at a nice clip and I found it enjoyable. I have seen some true stinkers this year, and this is not one of them.