The Holiday Calendar

The good - Kat Graham. The over the top decorated town - for a while. The good? The rent is so reasonable the struggling photographer can afford that huge, a** apt, her new car, her fashionable wardrobe and her expensive photography equipment. The bad? The decorations go too far, even for a Christmas movie. The public school has lit garland on the banisters? C'mon. Everything is decorated! Every window, street lamp, fire hydrant...okay, I exaggerated on that last one. Here is the real issue with the film and that is the male lead. He is completely wrong for the role. This movie is set in a very well to do, well educated small town with nary a bad neighborhood in sight. Quincy Brown's character speaks as if he's right off 8 Mile suddenly transplanted to Gross Pointe. Supposedly, the two leads grew up together. It just isn't believable.

It's easy to say that yes this movie is highly predictable. I'd presume that's one of the reasons it's receiving a large load of bad reviews. I think coming from my point of view is that the film is like any other good Christmas movie. It's predictable although always has a moral behind it. It's worth giving a watch. No you're not going to watch it more then once this year but it's still pretty good.

The concept of the movie and the calendar gifts were unique but the rest of the movie was average. First off they act like this girl is some struggling artist with her brand new car and her giant apartment. She's more like the daughter of a wealthy lawyer so she can be a photographer all she wants. Then the male lead has braids and a unibrow going on where it makes you root for the other guy. The meet cute with that other guy was pretty cute so the movie gets points there.

I thought this was a cute holiday movie. I wouldn't say it's an awarding winning movie that truly touched my soul! No nothing like that. Just a cute, clean family movie. Def. gave me the Hallmark Christmas movie vibe.

Nice Christmas setting, cheesy Christmas story but really bad chemistry between the two!