Une belle rencontre de Noël

Robin Dunne and Erin Karpluk are quite enjoyable and are the only reason why I was able to finish this. That's the positive.

Now for the negatives. The acting from pretty much everyone else was horrible.The production of the film was clearly on an extremely low budget that there are blatant green screen shots while actors walk down the street. The green screen is so bad that it's on almost every closeup of an actor. This was clearly filmed in the summer as you can see the sun shining on fully green grass and no one is dressed even remotely for winter. Quite a few times you can see white cloth used to replicate snow.

The most distracting thing is the constant mediocre score being played throughout. I don't recall a single time where we didn't hear it for more than 15 seconds. It becomes frustrating to the point where you start to believe they're using it to mask the boredom.

Both Dunne and Karpluk have been in better Christmas movies. Check those out instead.

I watched it because I liked the show, "Being Erica," and I will watch anything with Erin Karpluk. I've seen enough Hallmark Christmas movies to know what I was getting, and there was nothing special here. It was like a low budget Hallmark movie... a very low budget Hallmark movie. Very, very, very low..... The low budget look - bad lighting, poor green screens, etc... didn't really bother me. What did bother me was the non-stop generic Christmas music playing non-stop through the whole movie. If anyone reading this is involved with making low budget movies, NEVER have a nonstop generic music soundtrack playing the whole time. All other shortcomings can be overlooked, but the music was distracting and terrible. Anyway, it was about what I expected - pretty cheesy - but I got to see Erin Karpluk so I was happy.

If I could give this less than 1 star, I would. Besides the acting being absolutely mediocre the worst part is the background music. Not only did the same 3 songs play on repeat throughout the entirety of the movie but if was all surface level. The music had no heart and no real melody. Not to mention that the music NEVER fit whatever was happening within the movie and was completely out of place. Definitely not worth the time to watch the movie.

I've enjoyed Erin Karpluk and Robin Dunne in other things so took a chance on this despite the poor reviews. Not sorry I did. This isn't great television by any stretch but it was a pleasant way to pass 1.5 hours on a holiday evening.

The fatal flaws were mostly in the beginning, with uninspired dialogue, one-note secondary characters, and especially a serious lack of deeper motivations for the main characters. If either of them early expressed a dissatisfaction with their career paths, the first half would have had more heart and the shift of direction at the 2/3 mark wouldn't have come as such a surprise.

It's a light, easy tv movie with some food for thought and a cute twist at the end that doesn't have to do with the happy couple.

What the h*** was that? I got sooooo tired of the missed connections (fun drinking game?) and the Santa was so freaking annoying. I just... dude, are you Santa or not? I'm skipping to the end.