Believe in Christmas

The 2024 movie "Believe in Christmas" from director Christie Will Wolf found its way to my 2024 Christmas movie marathon. Sure, I had never heard about it, but that hardly mattered, as I do enjoy watching movies I am unfamiliar with. But I can't claim that I harbored the biggest of expectations to the movie, as the movie's cover was rather generic, even for a Christmas movie. But of course, it is not really fair to judge a movie by its cover alone.

I have to say that writers Maggie Dallen, Anne-Marie Meyer and Christie Will Wolf collectively only managed to churn out a script and storyline that was taken straight from the how-to-write-a-sappy-Christmas-movie guidebook. But hey, if you enjoy archetypical sappy and campy Christmas movies, then you're in for a treat here. If you sit down to watch the movie as a casual viewer, as I did, then you're not really in for a particularly memorable viewing experience. Don't get me wrong, I am not saying that "Believe in Christmas" is a bad movie, not at all. It was just formulaic and generic.

The only face on the cast list that I was familiar with was leading actress Meghan Ory. It should be noted, though, that the acting performances in the movie were fair.

"Believe in Christmas" is not a movie that will ever get a second playing on my screen. It just simply wasn't outstanding in a vast sea of similar movies out there. And it didn't have the contents to be a Christmas classic.

My rating of director Christie Will Wolf's 2024 movie "Believe in Christmas" lands on a four out of ten stars.

We have Charlie Hudson and Joe Donovan. If the movie had Rex it would be ideal!

John Reardon gets to act with his real life wife Meghan Ory, so the chemistry is already there.

Its your typical Hallmark Christmas movie, but to me this was extra special seeing Charlie Hudson and Joe Donovan together in different roles. Nothing really out of the norm here. Typical plot line, but still entertaining.

Man I wish this had Rex in it.

The best friend is a treat to watch with her over the top Christmas spirit, which I love.

Beautiful scenery, and a great way to spend 90 minutes.

Again I wish Rex was in this.

We absolutely 💯 loved this movie.

It was so magical n natural.

The main stars Meghan n John are a real.life couple.

They are both gorgeous!

I have watched them in their other series too.

Someone mentioned here their looks lol They are a beautiful couple in their 40s with 3 small kids.

I don't think their looks matter to make a fun movie by the way.

How mean to poke at movie stars looks n wardrobe when no one in real life is perfect.

They are amazing stars, really down to earth n humble.

Meghan's smile is beautiful, she's always happy n John too in their other series.

It makes me happy.

These movies are made to getaway from everyday life n just relax.

So much violence in the world that we need not pick on others.

Just enjoy n spread the cheer!

The movie stars work hard to bring these to us juggling their real life n families.

7.3 stars.

I felt my experience with this film was just slightly above average. Along the lines of Hallmark films it was not quite good enough to meet my expectations for a fully engaging experience. There are good parts, but it was quite slow otherwise.

I like all the actors and I thought they did their best and much of it was fun and exciting and there was so much potential, but it just fell flat over and over again. I don't know if it was the Director or the script, but something was stalled.

They needed to restart this one, and give it a kick, maybe some of that black coffee that she desired over the sickly sweet syrupy stuff, would give it a jumpstart in this wonderful fake fairytale Christmas town. You might really like this one, so give it a shot, but it's not quite my cup of tea.

Or is it AI? Seriously, you bury body mics under wool turtlenecks and you need a human to use EQ, or you get unlistenable mud like this. Look no further than scene 1. Lindura is cute and vivacious, but she is a motormouth who mumbles, and you can't tell me you understood a word she said without CC turned on, or, until her final scene where she wasn't wearing a scarf. Forget the age difference creepiness which was omfg bad. Forget the amount of exposition needed up front to construct the hokum at the heart of this. Forget the barrels of fake snow for the scenes shot on a blazing hot day in July. Forget the truckloads of garland and ribbon in the lady's kitchen, including the garland wrapped around THE OVEN. This movie sums up what Hallmark has now reliably become, a parody of itself, creating packaged characters in packaged settings. And the story, the plot, makes no sense and does not matter.