A Tale of Two Christmases

A tale of 2 Christmases was 2 Christmases too many. I've been working at clearing my DVR of Christmas movies. I liked the idea of two different timelines, but not the end result.

The lead actress had no chemistry with either lead actor and I didn't care who she ended up with. It was just sort of meh. Maybe they needed a stronger lead.

I wasted 2 hours watching this, but won't have to do it again. I would rather watch repeats of Three wise men and a baby or Haul out the Holly.

Christmas at the Golden Dragon did a nice job telling the multiple stories and how they intermingled with each other. If you're looking for a movie with multiple storylines, Golden Dragon or Holiday Spectacular would be my recommendation.

This is one of those movies that starts off with an interesting premise, bounces around in confusion, and just takes an agonizingly long time to wrap up. It manages to hit the point of no return, where you might feel you've already invested (wasted?) sufficient time to justify sitting through the inevitable. Your reward is the slow, inexorable (excruciating?) suction into its sappy, sloppy, conclusion where our protagonist chooses to surrender her career to a drama king "for love".

If you're in the privacy of home, you're inclined to yell at the TV in frustration.

And for a rom-com, it's not that funny. I gave it a 4 because the leads really did try to make the best of a rat's nest haircut.

Speaking of which, for gawd's sake, you get a candy cane out of your luxurious hair with hot water, not by having your meddling, inept, yakkity-yak MOTHER hack it out with kitchen shears!

Who needs all those bells and whistles when the cocoa is sourced ethically. Umm. Is that really a line?! So in the hometown storyline she goes home and wants plain hot chocolate because the city girl stays away from sugar. But I'm the Chicago timeline the Chicago girl rolls her eyes to the plain hot chocolate?!

This is one example of some of The inconsistencies in this movie. It's a bit confusing of a timeline and how things are happening.

I think the casting was good. I like all of them. I think it's the script and direction they're working with that just isn't working for me on this one.

I was looking forward to this one but it meh falls flat.

A nice Christmas film, using a not so original idea but being far by boring.

The only problem is the two complicated story by alternatives. And their use in not most inspired manner.

But, sure, some romance, some humor, a Santa real special are pretty good points. The too fragile chemistry between she and the men of her life is another little problem. But Christmas atmosphere, like the supporting actors are reasonable solutions source and, in essence, this is the matters thing, not ignoring the target of this genre of films.

Not impressive but just nice . In my case, the idea of alternative events is the good point of film.

If only we all had these problems...two sweet and attractive guys like you and your successful at your job and have a loving family to go home to.

Emma (Katherine Barrell) is a beautiful successful architect living in the city, but heading home for Christmas...or at least she is supposed to. This is where the story splits, in one scenario she makes her flight home and gets to enjoy Christmas with her family and the sweet boy next door and in the other she misses her flight and ends up spending Christmas Eve in the city with a dreamy lawyer who works in her building.

Honestly, I get why it ends the way it does...but I kind of liked the dreamy lawyer Max played by Evan Roderick. It was nice not to have any villains in this split scenario.

It was kind of a middle of the road holiday romance, but slightly different than the usual Hallmark fare...so maybe worth a watch.