Un Noël parfait

Cynthia and Steve are newlyweds and are about to spend their first Christmas together with their families. You can imagine it, it's a mess, and they encounter obstacle after obstacle while they are there.

I like it when Hallmarks offers us movies with couples who are already together or married. It was a cute movie, I enjoyed it. I got annoyed several times by Cynthia's mother in law. And I hate when the characters don't talk with one another and hide the secrets from each other. Communication is key, specially in a marriage.

I'm a bit surprised at the low rating compared to other Hallmark movies. What I liked was the variation in plot (as opposed to city person without Christmas spirit is changed by country person... sometimes magically is seems), the better chemistry between the leads, and better production values. I'll forgive the smart but goofy wife. I might note that this happens at Christmas but Christmas is not the main point, the problems of life could have happened at any time. On the down side, as others have pointed out the legal ethics portrayed stretched the boundaries some. I could imaging a tough boss but the outright meanness and lack of ethics was difficult to believe. Still, the refreshing match of the leads trumped all and hence the good rating.

Can you please get a hairdresser who doesn't give every female leading character ringlets?! Jeez, I'm SO tired of adult women with ringlets like young children! Can't any of them have grownup hairstyles? This storyline was better than so many that follow "they don't get along, now they seem to be friends, oops now they're thrown apart, now they're back as friends who can share a kiss in the last five minutes, because there's no time for it to go further". This had redeeming qualities and sense honour! Well done!

It seems that the writers have an issue with women. They mess up constantly and can't solve problems. The families are intrusive and what's meant to be funny, falls flat.

Leave it to Hallmark to come up with the quintessential Christmas movie! I felt great while watching it!