Icing on the Cake

Katrina Norman beautiful and adorable but the acting isn't great in this one. She did fine but most of the male actors should brush up on their skills. The story was fine and it was worth watching.

Victoria Worthington makes wedding cakes and has a small bakery. She's a pushover in business and even with her ex. She mistakes wedding guest Jacob Adams III for kitchen staff. They hit it off. She doesn't know that he's one of the most eligible bachelors. He's actually a wealthy land developer who is tearing down a neighborhood which happens to include her bakery. He runs into her again and discovers that she's leading a protest against his family's company.

The leads are perfectly pretty. The chemistry is fine. Their acting is fine. It does have an interesting underlying conflict to generate heat. It's a standard romance. It's mostly fine. The production is a little lackluster. The property development company should be in a downtown high-rise to play up its cold corporate quality. The plot structure has a small problem by delaying the reveal. It needs to happen ten minutes earlier so that it could have more time to reverse it. Also it needs more food porn. It's a missed opportunity to fill up some time with some pretty baking. This is fine. More money could make the production prettier.

THEY PUT THE CAKE BY ITSELF IN THE BACK OF A VAN LIKE A KIDNAPPED CHILD.

Even kidnapped children get strapped down, covered up and held tight in the back of a van. Not this cake though. Poor thing. It didn't even get a tupperware lid or a box to go in. It didnt even get something to lean on 🎂🚐😱 but guess what. Like magic, the cake was perfectly fine. Now it would have been hilarious and great for a plot (and bloody realistic) if the cake was ruined, right? Nope.

I watch Bridezillas. The cake is a major item when it comes to drama. For reasons like transporting, cost, size...? But they transport the cakes secured, or set it up at the venue; the cakes do come in tiers... Now if it's those obnoxious huge sand castle looking cakes then that might be another story with tiers and building at the venue. But transport is still secure. But this was a simple four tier cake here and the width of an average human and the weight of maybe a one year old. You could have held it in your lap. Not left it in a huge empty white van trunk by itself. What an off putting flaw. I can't get passed it. Folks, this was five minutes in. Shame.

I also have seen this plot before. A big bad real estate developer wants to build in an artsy or green space. Another film called True Love Blooms had this antagony. Awesome film about a developer wanting to build luxury condos in a garden! How important is that message!! From gentrification, to even imperialism, to quite simply an environmentalist wanting a community garden in an urbanized place. That film came with flaws (annoyingly gleeful actress, unattractive beau, no sexual chemistry) but it's a way better story in the same situation as these guys. The streaming site I'm watching Love on the Rise on is buffering and I take it as a sign. I will skip this.

The acting was absolutely appalling, especially the father and the father's assistant. There was no chemistry between the leads, the leading lady was weak, as were her lines. The leading man didn't bother acting and just churned out the verbal mess of a script.

The whole thing was a waste of time and perhaps the scriptwriters may be better placed in other spheres of work, along with the actors.

This is literally Secret Millionaire (2018). That is the review.