Christmas Time Capsule

This movie follows James and Tiffany, best pals from their childhood days in the Midwest. James asks Tiffany for an engagement ring he gave her for safekeeping before he enlisted. He's got plans to propose to someone else, but their trip back home stirs up old emotions.

During their journey, they rediscover their connection. Some folks thought the actors didn't click, but I found their bond quite genuine.

I won't spill the beans on all the surprises, but trust me, this movie keeps you hooked. Some people had mixed reviews, but if you're up for a cozy, feel-good Christmas film about friendship and true love, this one hits the spot!

I just couldn't get into this bore fest. There were way too many long drawn out scenes of nothing. One scene lasted around 20 minutes of them just sitting in a car moaning at each other, and another scene going to an ALIEN convention at Christmas.(whah!!!!) The male lead was another one of those model type actors, where it's all just about the eye candy, zero acting ability, and the female lead just constantly grinned all the way through the movie like it was her only expression. I know Christmas movies don't always have the best talent, but this is way outside the barrel.

To top it off there was that overused silly tinkerbell music playing in the background, that is meant to give you comedy effect, but instead just annoys you. Both leads were acting away from each other, rather than towards each other, so it felt there was no love story or chemistry development. This is not one for a cosy night in, let alone a freezing night outside.

I found this to be a very likeable rom movie. There is comedy angle with the little off the norm parents but they provided a fine background of a loving family. The story is the usual why didn't they each say something earlier but the years had gone by. There was no hystrionics, the characters were down to earth and all likeable. They just needed to sort out what they felt and wanted. Closer to real life. Franco Lo Presti is always good, providing a good reflection of the characters he plays. If you want a really rom-com -ie movie, with the emotional, teary female with silly interactions with the male and the best friend not so sage advice, this isn't it.

It is that time of year where I love to watch these type of Christmas movies. Randomly came across this one and let's just say I won't be adding it to my rewatch or recommendation list to friends. Bad acting is usually fine with these movies, but when the leads have zero chemistry whatsoever with each other, it makes this a big miss...

These two should not work together again. Not believable... The lead actress was fine, but the lead actor was not very good at acting. He should be a secondary actor at best as I did not believe him as a leading man as there was a smugness to him I did not enjoy. He would be perfect for the jerk boyfriend role, and not this.

The Tiffany character was way more unlikeable than the fiancé and I felt that there was no rooting interest in seeing these supposed best friends get together by the end of the film.

Much better options out there for your "Hallmark" Christmas movie marathons.

7.6 stars.

Yet another movie with reviews all over the place, and so I had to see it for myself, see what's the deal. There aren't many comments, but for me, I have to comment on this because that's what I do these days, I do reviews on everything I watch. Why not, figure might as well do something with all this time on my hands watching primarily family and Hallmark films for two full months of the year, that's the tradition, starting in 2022, and boy there is an endless supply of these movies...

There is absolutely nothing wrong with this movie. I like it, almost love it at times. The leads have great chemistry, what are people talking about? Sure, they're married, so what, that's not an automatic chemistry killer, they have it, the love is there...

The story is nothing new, but they do draw it out and it's sort of slow at times, but it's a really slow burn sort of best friends, always been in love story and it works. I can feel the raw emotions between them, she is absolutely adorable, he's got charm. What's not to like? But so many people just don't enjoy this movie, so maybe I'm on coolaid, who knows.