Quatre Noël et un mariage

A typical generic stupid christmas movie that I wouldn't recommend to my mother and she loves this kind of movies.

These movies succeed because they are formulaic and make you feel all warm and fuzzy. Unfortunately I didn't get those feels because I couldn't connect with Arielle Kibble in the lead role of Chloe.

Arielle is a beautiful woman; however, her performance didn't seem to be coming from a sincere place. I wasn't invested in her character as a result.

Her overacting was distracting and resulted in little chemistry between the two leads (central point of these movies).

Corey Sevier played his part well, especially when you consider how little he was getting back from the leading lady. The rest of the cast were good and the scenery was simply gorgeous.

Overall, there seemed to be too much focus on trivial events and not enough fleshing out of the main characters and plot. The idea was nice, but it got lost amongst the frills at the writing table.

Arielle Kebbel starred in one of my favorite Christmas movies, A BRIDE FOR CHRISTMAS (2012), so I was excited to watch this one. Unfortunately this one did not have the depth of story, emotion and great humor. It was a good movie. It was great to see the forever young Markie Post (Night Court) as her mom. The story tried to cover 4 years of Christmas and the 1st year when they met was rushed a bit (this hurt the emotional connection with me as the audience). Also the little girl really didn't get bigger over the time period. I loved how the dog was part of their story. Hope Arielle continues to make Christmas movies.

I thought the plot was more clever than most Christmas movies. The acting was surprisingly good across the board. The lead actress, Arielle Kebbel, was delightful and charming. I also loved that she was constantly eating during the scenes! It was a special treat to see Markie Post and Judge Reinhold on the screen. I also liked all the establishing shots featuring real snow scenes--that helped keep the movie cold and Christmas-y. I also liked that the movie continued for 5 minutes past the "normal ending" of a Christmas movie. Overall very enjoyable.

A very bad representation of Norwegians and Swedes. Using an Australian actor with an Eastern European accent dosen't cut it.