Un bébé dans la crèche de Noël

This should be made into a series I loved it definitely watch it.

I'm taking my time to strongly urge that you don't waste yours on this movie. The storyline is very thin. While it could have been flushed out with better writing, nothing can fix the abysmal acting and lack of chemistry. I've watched hundreds of holiday movies, and I'm hard pressed to think of many that are this poor!

The story sounded like it had promise. A baby is suddenly left in a manger during a church production. It is unrealistic and goes down hill from that point on as they argue over jurisdiction though NOTHING that happens is based on real procedure.

I saw this movie on the network UP which often has good, unique movies. Sadly this is not one of them. With so many holiday movies to choose from each season there is simply no reason to waste your precious time on this one.

This could have been a good movie, but the script, directing and acting was REALLY bad.

Monica Knox is a GREAT actress, but Michael Morrone is NOT!

Monica has the emotions down, but Michael sounded like he was reading from a script, not memory.

This movie has the worst acting by a male lead, Morton's, that I have ever seen. Unfortunately due to his poor acting it overshadows everything else and that is all you think about during the movie. I was going to stop it 10 mins in, but I let it play thinking surely that must have just been a bad scene and must get better, but his acting actually got worse. Now the blame is not 100% his, how did the casting, director and all the other roles involved not pick this up. Not for a split second did I at any stage feel engaged with the movie. People watch movies to be taken on a story, and the skills of the acting and direction / producing make you for that hour believe and feel captivated, unfortunately the bad acting of 1 member made it impossible to connect on any level with the story. This is unfortunate as the other actors were very good. Those giving this movie a 9 or 10 are definitely linked to it to improve the ratings

My Christmas film viewings over-time have been a very mixed bag. With some surprisingly good hits, where regardless of how predictable they are succeed in being full of charm, warmth and heart so succeeding in being light-hearted and undemanding fun. But also some quite big misses, where the characters are not likeable, everything is forced and shallow with implausibility too in some of the worst cases, the acting and writing being weak and basically with just nothing to them.

Have seen worse Christmas films, but 'Baby in a Manger' really isn't good. Not irredeemably awful, but there are a lot of things wrong with it and when anything is bad goodness isn't it bad. It didn't entertain me. It didn't charm me. It didn't warm my heart. And it didn't move me. Actually found myself annoyed throughout, one of only two feelings felt throughout (the other being boredom), and it takes a lot for me to feel those when watching a film or anything for that matter. Especially now.

It has a few plus points. Monica Rodriguez Knox is appealing and a natural presence. The baby is adorable.

Did think it looked decent in parts in namely the scenery.

However, this is all outweighed by the bad things. Absolutely agree with those panning Michael Morrone, who is on stiff autopilot throughout with yawn-worthy line delivery. One of the worst male lead performances seen in recent memory. Didn't detect any chemistry between him and Knox, they look awkward together and their constant bickering got repetitive and overdone. The supporting cast are forgettable at best and at worst annoying in a film full of one-dimensional caricatures passing off as characters. The filming too often is drab and the editing is very carelessly slapped together.

While the music is not too awful on its own, how it's used is. Overused and often out of place, tending to intrude too. The dialogue has more cheese than the cheesiest of cheeseburgers and even fruit sherberts don't have this amount of cloying sugar. The direction is routine at best. The story is dull and unrealistically contrived as well as excessively predictable, no charm, heart or joy at all.

Concluding, not good at all and at its worst very bad. 3/10.