Every Day is Christmas
Everyday is Christmas (2018) - Lifetime
Allrightythen! Today we get hang out with legendary super star songstress Toni Braxton in this Holiday movie Every Day is Christmas, or as I prefer to call it 'Toni Tries on a Dress' which is kind of Chistmas Carol-ish, in a way. Kind of. Not really, but the folks in this movie seem to be pretty cool with their rather loose interpretation of the Dickens classic.
Alexis Taylor (Toni) is a hard driven financial something or another who hates Christmas. Bla bla bla, you know the routine. It's Christmas Eve and Alexis is not happy because her company had a year end 12% profit as opposed to the projected 20%. Jeff (Andrew Arlie), her main financial dude was like, 'but we still made a hefty profit!' Uh...Jeff? Everyone knows that the next years capital expenditures are based on that years financial forecast, so if we say we are going to achieve 20% and we only make 12%, we are now 40% below projections and thus 8% in the red. Business school 101 bruh. Why does he still have a job? Alexis then lets Jeff know that she's cancelling Christmas bonuses, and Jeff pipes in with 'but they were counting on that money' or something. It's not the fault of Alexis that these clowns were planning their personal future expenditures on a performance based windfall which may or may not happen, and considering they fell far short of goal, no bonuses. They tried to make Alexis sound like the bad guy in all of this, but it's just basic business. Then Alexis tells them they all have to work the next day, which is Christmas Day, or lose their jobs. All right... dick move. Markets are closed, nothing to do, can't defend that one. Alexis also breaks up with her boyfriend on this Christmas Eve, but she does give him some lovely parting gifts, so there is that.
Now Alexis' Christmas Carol experience is about to begin. Her driver Justin (Michael Jai White) drives her to home to her AMAZING apartment, she gets into her PJ's and settles in for a good nights rest. That's when her dead mom (Gloria Reuben) pops into her room. If this movie did anything right, it would be Alexis' initial reaction to ones twenty years dead mother making a sudden appearance in ones darkened room. Eventually mom and daughter get this all sorted out and now the whole Past / Present / Future thing can begin so Dead Mom can save her daughter. First though Alexis needs to properly attire herself because PJ's simply won't do and here she dons a Posen based form fitting sparkly evening gown, very suitable for a night out with drinks at a classy jazz club.
So Dead Mom forces Alexis to relive her parents tragic deaths, her abandonment of the man that loved her at the time and show her the beginnings of her angry bitterness. Now it's on to the present where Alexis puts on a low cut Murad one piece with tassels, think of something Charro would wear, only far more tasteful, perfect for a night out dancing followed up by nightcaps at Bon Ton. Here Alexis learns about what her employees think about her, what that boyfriend she dumped thinks about her and other stuff. Whatever. The dress is the most important thing in all of this. For the future trip Dead Dad (Everick Golding) joins in while Alexis sports a Wang-esque semi formal strapless, perfect for attending a wedding where you would look quite fetching on the arm of your date, attracting subtle attention while not taking too much attention away from the bride. Here she learns she dies sad and alone.
You know how this goes. She wakes up the next morning, tones it down considerably with a red Jaclyn Smith fit and flare, sets everything right, gives everybody money that they seriously don't deserve and Merry Christmas! BUT WAIT!!! Success is nothing without someone you love to share it with! Mahogany 101 baby. No... not the ex-boyfriend who was going to propose to her, but Justin the driver. Because he's hotter I guess? Because outside of a random sentence here and there they really didn't do much to setup a romantic relationship between these two. Justin is also secretly rich. Christmas spirit is nice and all but if you want to be with a woman like Alexis you best be making them ends. NOW Merry Christmas. While the dead parents continue to creepily look on.
Since Every Day is Christmas takes place in the ATL, though it's never explicitly stated that it's Atlanta but the skyline and the ferris wheel gives it away, there are some elements which are going to be missing from this movie... such as snow and everything attached to snow. No snowball fights or snowman building, none of that stuff. And since this is based on a Christmas Carol, that you might think other things should be missing, such as the scrooge character getting in on some love action, but we can't have that, now can we.
Thus in absence of such Hallmarky mainstays as snow, cookie baking, snowball fights, Christmas tree purchasing, hot cocoa sipping, mistletoe and only a precursory look at some random carolers, you would think this Lifetime Hallmarky movie would be light on the vomits, but not so fast my friend. You do get the tired trope of the super busy business woman with no time for love or Christmas, and Ms. Braxton also provided us with some original Christmas music but this movie also managed to grab vomits out of thin air simply through dialog alone, especially at the end. Since nothing was done to setup a legitimate relationship between Alexis and Justin, they had to back end this rushed relationship which forced Toni Braxton and Michael Jai white to recite an entire movies worth of gooey sweet nothings in about five minutes, and it was somewhat painful. Despite the fact that Michael Jai White is one of my favorite actors. Admittedly, most of those movies involve him beating somebody to death with his fists, but the fact remains that he's my main man. Also, for you Christmas Carol purists out there, there is no Cratchit, no Marley, no Tiny Tim and we will not get three distinct Christmas ghosts. But we did get multiple distinct Toni Braxton wardrobe changes which I think more than makes up for that.
Is 'Everyday is Christmas' a good movie? probably not, but Toni Braxton still looks very nice in a form fitting dress with tassels hanging off of it. That's gotta be worth something.
Alexis Taylor (Toni) is a hard driven financial something or another who hates Christmas. Bla bla bla, you know the routine. It's Christmas Eve and Alexis is not happy because her company had a year end 12% profit as opposed to the projected 20%. Jeff (Andrew Arlie), her main financial dude was like, 'but we still made a hefty profit!' Uh...Jeff? Everyone knows that the next years capital expenditures are based on that years financial forecast, so if we say we are going to achieve 20% and we only make 12%, we are now 40% below projections and thus 8% in the red. Business school 101 bruh. Why does he still have a job? Alexis then lets Jeff know that she's cancelling Christmas bonuses, and Jeff pipes in with 'but they were counting on that money' or something. It's not the fault of Alexis that these clowns were planning their personal future expenditures on a performance based windfall which may or may not happen, and considering they fell far short of goal, no bonuses. They tried to make Alexis sound like the bad guy in all of this, but it's just basic business. Then Alexis tells them they all have to work the next day, which is Christmas Day, or lose their jobs. All right... dick move. Markets are closed, nothing to do, can't defend that one. Alexis also breaks up with her boyfriend on this Christmas Eve, but she does give him some lovely parting gifts, so there is that.
Now Alexis' Christmas Carol experience is about to begin. Her driver Justin (Michael Jai White) drives her to home to her AMAZING apartment, she gets into her PJ's and settles in for a good nights rest. That's when her dead mom (Gloria Reuben) pops into her room. If this movie did anything right, it would be Alexis' initial reaction to ones twenty years dead mother making a sudden appearance in ones darkened room. Eventually mom and daughter get this all sorted out and now the whole Past / Present / Future thing can begin so Dead Mom can save her daughter. First though Alexis needs to properly attire herself because PJ's simply won't do and here she dons a Posen based form fitting sparkly evening gown, very suitable for a night out with drinks at a classy jazz club.
So Dead Mom forces Alexis to relive her parents tragic deaths, her abandonment of the man that loved her at the time and show her the beginnings of her angry bitterness. Now it's on to the present where Alexis puts on a low cut Murad one piece with tassels, think of something Charro would wear, only far more tasteful, perfect for a night out dancing followed up by nightcaps at Bon Ton. Here Alexis learns about what her employees think about her, what that boyfriend she dumped thinks about her and other stuff. Whatever. The dress is the most important thing in all of this. For the future trip Dead Dad (Everick Golding) joins in while Alexis sports a Wang-esque semi formal strapless, perfect for attending a wedding where you would look quite fetching on the arm of your date, attracting subtle attention while not taking too much attention away from the bride. Here she learns she dies sad and alone.
You know how this goes. She wakes up the next morning, tones it down considerably with a red Jaclyn Smith fit and flare, sets everything right, gives everybody money that they seriously don't deserve and Merry Christmas! BUT WAIT!!! Success is nothing without someone you love to share it with! Mahogany 101 baby. No... not the ex-boyfriend who was going to propose to her, but Justin the driver. Because he's hotter I guess? Because outside of a random sentence here and there they really didn't do much to setup a romantic relationship between these two. Justin is also secretly rich. Christmas spirit is nice and all but if you want to be with a woman like Alexis you best be making them ends. NOW Merry Christmas. While the dead parents continue to creepily look on.
Since Every Day is Christmas takes place in the ATL, though it's never explicitly stated that it's Atlanta but the skyline and the ferris wheel gives it away, there are some elements which are going to be missing from this movie... such as snow and everything attached to snow. No snowball fights or snowman building, none of that stuff. And since this is based on a Christmas Carol, that you might think other things should be missing, such as the scrooge character getting in on some love action, but we can't have that, now can we.
Thus in absence of such Hallmarky mainstays as snow, cookie baking, snowball fights, Christmas tree purchasing, hot cocoa sipping, mistletoe and only a precursory look at some random carolers, you would think this Lifetime Hallmarky movie would be light on the vomits, but not so fast my friend. You do get the tired trope of the super busy business woman with no time for love or Christmas, and Ms. Braxton also provided us with some original Christmas music but this movie also managed to grab vomits out of thin air simply through dialog alone, especially at the end. Since nothing was done to setup a legitimate relationship between Alexis and Justin, they had to back end this rushed relationship which forced Toni Braxton and Michael Jai white to recite an entire movies worth of gooey sweet nothings in about five minutes, and it was somewhat painful. Despite the fact that Michael Jai White is one of my favorite actors. Admittedly, most of those movies involve him beating somebody to death with his fists, but the fact remains that he's my main man. Also, for you Christmas Carol purists out there, there is no Cratchit, no Marley, no Tiny Tim and we will not get three distinct Christmas ghosts. But we did get multiple distinct Toni Braxton wardrobe changes which I think more than makes up for that.
Is 'Everyday is Christmas' a good movie? probably not, but Toni Braxton still looks very nice in a form fitting dress with tassels hanging off of it. That's gotta be worth something.
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