Looking to escape his Royal life, a dashing prince comes to the United States to start a business in a small town in upstate New York and winds up falling for a former Olympic ice skater.Looking to escape his Royal life, a dashing prince comes to the United States to start a business in a small town in upstate New York and winds up falling for a former Olympic ice skater.Looking to escape his Royal life, a dashing prince comes to the United States to start a business in a small town in upstate New York and winds up falling for a former Olympic ice skater.
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First, the presence in cast of William Baldwin was the attraction to see this film who uses, again , old image of the prince , incognito, in Unied States, for an ambitious project , becoming, again, off course, so predictable, victim of Cupidon.
But the story just works, in decent and, for few scenes, just beautiful manner and this fact real matters.
A good detail - the good humor, skating and friendship and the gentle shadows of depression and new chance as gift.
Not great, not memorable but that pleasant Hallmark far to be boring or silly.
In fact, all being so predictable , it becomes just the old story repeated for new encounter . And it sounds not so bad, honestely.
But the story just works, in decent and, for few scenes, just beautiful manner and this fact real matters.
A good detail - the good humor, skating and friendship and the gentle shadows of depression and new chance as gift.
Not great, not memorable but that pleasant Hallmark far to be boring or silly.
In fact, all being so predictable , it becomes just the old story repeated for new encounter . And it sounds not so bad, honestely.
The story is a spin on the royalty, post-injury ice skater, and failing business tropes, but it works. The acting, with the exception of the small role of Stephen Baldwin and the promising actor in the lead male role, is inexcusably terrible. Everyone either over or under acted. I could hardly get through it, and my expectations for these movies is pretty low.
It also seemed incomplete, because the rest of the royal family was set up to be revisited, but wasn't. That part of the story was just dropped. They rushed to the unrealistic and unbelievable ending.
Not to be picky, but they could have spent an extra 15 minutes to teach them to ice a cupcake. That was ridiculous.
Don't waste your time.
It also seemed incomplete, because the rest of the royal family was set up to be revisited, but wasn't. That part of the story was just dropped. They rushed to the unrealistic and unbelievable ending.
Not to be picky, but they could have spent an extra 15 minutes to teach them to ice a cupcake. That was ridiculous.
Don't waste your time.
This movie was the worst Christmas movie that I've seen in awhile. Abigail, the lead female, was immature and downright unlikeable. I saw her smile twice I think. She's mad at the world, miserable with her life and blaming everyone else for her own mistakes and choices. It isn't believable that any man with self worth would pursue her.
The baker character is cute, and the friend that tried to call her out for being rude but wasn't near harsh enough. By the end, I was hoping it turned into a murder mystery.
The town was cute. Baldwin was a nice surprise. The story had potential. It just couldn't overcome that character.
The baker character is cute, and the friend that tried to call her out for being rude but wasn't near harsh enough. By the end, I was hoping it turned into a murder mystery.
The town was cute. Baldwin was a nice surprise. The story had potential. It just couldn't overcome that character.
The acting was terrible, overall the whole movie was terrible. Hours on my life wasted.
Abby smiled one in the whole movie even when she was supposed to be "happy" she was completely miserable and always found something to complain about, hate and even hold grudges on. Chad was a meaning less character that holds no importance in this movie.
Abby was supposed to be an Olympic figure skater, all she could do was stand on the ice an jester her hand to the people, wait that's not true she also don a slow little curve on the ice and John claimed she was the best skater ever. Even at the end John was supposed to skate with Abby and he never did. They just stood there.
This was one on the worst movies I have ever watched.
Abby smiled one in the whole movie even when she was supposed to be "happy" she was completely miserable and always found something to complain about, hate and even hold grudges on. Chad was a meaning less character that holds no importance in this movie.
Abby was supposed to be an Olympic figure skater, all she could do was stand on the ice an jester her hand to the people, wait that's not true she also don a slow little curve on the ice and John claimed she was the best skater ever. Even at the end John was supposed to skate with Abby and he never did. They just stood there.
This was one on the worst movies I have ever watched.
Unfortunately, not a great script; actually pretty horrible or it's that the casting was that bad. Maybe with better directing it might have been an okay movie. Also very little chemistry between actors. Most of the scenes felt forced like the actors were bored with the script. I was unfamiliar with Jonathan Stoddard (Prince John) but felt he was the only redeeming quality about the movie and probably why I kept going back to finish it. For the most part, he seems believable in most of his scenes. Peter Johnson (Al the baker & Santa) didn't have many scenes but I also thought he was believable.
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- TriviaJonathan Stoddard, William Baldwin, Charlene Amoia, Peter Johnson, Dennis DiPaolo, Mary-Kate O'Connell & Curtis Arney also appear in 'A Royal Christmas Holiday' (2023).
- GoofsAbbey tells John to stand tall when skating. An experienced instructor would usually have a beginner bend their knees and take a low shoulder width stance.
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