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No spoilers here unless you're unfamiliar with A Christmas Carol, as this thing, um TV movie, is an attempted retelling. What we have here are actors who are either unskilled or wholly uninspired(and if so, no one can blame them). They mostly sleepwalk through a soul-less, shallow, Christmas Carol in which Scrooge learns to become slightly less selfish, morally bankrupt, and generally horrible to the mostly equally horrible people in her life. Instead of feeding the poor and starving, our Scrooge here redeems herself by feeding celebrities via gift certificates to a restaurant . Really. The best part of the movie is when Jacob Marley/Cupid makes her grand final exit. I was laughing, though the scene was intended to be grand and touching. Redeeming qualities? Well, hmm. OK, the cast are pretty much all eye candy. The lighting and camera work were fine for a TV movie. And I give it points for making me laugh for feeling like the bad boyfriend dodged a bullet while the good guy got stuck with a lifetime of misery. All in all, no Christmas spirit to be found here, and not much of a cupid. I think they called it Christmas Cupid because Christmas Stupid was too honest.

This film essentially begins with a self-centered marketing executive by the name of "Sloane Spencer" (Christina Milian) doing everything she can to advance her personal agenda in order to obtain a promotion in her advertising firm. This even includes sleeping with her boss "Andrew Craig" (Burgess Jenkins) in the hope that he will reciprocate by endorsing her for a vacated vice-president position over her main rival "Jason Miller" (Ryan Sypek). Making this rivalry even more personal is the fact that Sloane had also been sleeping with him prior to her climb up the company ladder. Even so, it soon becomes obvious that, in order for her to win this promotion, she has to make the company look good during an upcoming movie premiere starring her a popular actress named "Caitlin Quinn" (Ashley Benson) who has become the firm's primary client. The problem, however, is that Caitlin seems to have an uncanny knack for attracting extremely bad publicity--as she careens from one outrageous scandal to another. Yet just when it seems things couldn't get worse, Caitlin dies while dancing at a wild party right before the big event. Not only that, but to make matters even worse, Sloane is subsequently visited by the ghost of Caitlin who advises her that three other ghosts will soon arrive with a warning that she needs to change her ways--before it's too late. Now, rather than reveal any more, I will just say that this was an okay remake of the Charles Dickens' story "A Christmas Carol" written about 175 years earlier. Yet despite the attempt to refurbish it as a comedy under modern circumstances, it doesn't quite succeed in delivering the same effect. And even though both Ashley Benson and Chad Michael Murray (as Sloane's ex-boyfriend "Patrick Kerns") performed reasonably well, it wasn't enough to compel me to rate this film any higher than I have. Average.

Teens who want a relatable version of A Christmas Carol will flock to Christmas Cupid, starring the popular teen star from Pretty Little Liars, Ashley Benson. Ashley is the Jacob Marley to Christina Milian's Scrooge, and she visits her coworker to impart some life lessons before it's too late. As you can tell from the title, the main focus is love and finding Christina's happiness with another person, rather than just enjoying the Christmas spirit. But this is a teen movie - do you really expect it not to focus on boys, boys, boys?

Parts of it were cute, but it's really just geared to teenage girls. Diehard fans of the Dickens story will probably be appalled. Just as classic lovers should stay away from All American Christmas Carol, they should probably stay away from Christmas Cupid. But if you just like pretty girls in pretty dresses, giggling over which boy to kiss under the mistletoe, check out this festive comedy. You'll see some familiar faces, like Jackée, Burgess Jenkins, and Ashley Johnson.

Alright, well I just sat through this movie, despite it was a movie that was amazingly sassy.

Let's start off with the title, "Christmas Cupid"? I think the movie was somewhat given a wrong title, sure there was a love theme to the story, but there was no Cupid around. And I sure hope they hadn't intended the dead movie star to be Cupid, if so, that would just be morbidly sick.

The story told in "Christmas Cupid" is fairly easy to follow and straight forward, being a whole re-invention of the classic "Christmas Carol" story. Just spiced up to appeal to the modern and hip audience of the 21st century. In itself it was actually not a bad interpretation of the classic story, and it did kind of grow on you, despite there were times where you just wanted the movie to end.

As for the acting in the movie, well I think the people did a good enough job. And they had some fairly decent names on the list, like Chad Michael Murray, Ashley Benson, Christina Milian, and more.

I think there is something to the movie that appeals to everyone, but as a whole picture, I think the movie is perhaps more suited for a female audience, than it is for a male audience.

The movie was adequate, but I hardly think it will turn out to be a Christmas classic movie, that you will get to experience year after year.

Yet another Christmas Carol remake, this time with Christina Milan playing a money hungry pathetic Public relations exec. Of course its predictable, its Dickens's classic, but the acting is B- or C+ grade. The one positive is Ashley Benson who plays the modern Jacob Marley, she pretty much steals every scene, not that says much,