A Christmas Movie Christmas
It's time to get a little Meta with our Christmas Movie today folks, add in a little self awareness. Like that movie The Last Action Hero where fantasy and real life become one. If you were to ask me, sight unseen, that sounds like fantastic idea for a Hallmarky styled romantic Christmas movie. Did a Christmas Movie Christmas deliver on this fantastic idea? Not completely. No, not really.
Eve (Lana McKissack) and Lacy (Kimberly Daugherty) are sisters living in the big city, and they are both absolutely adorable. Cutest TV sisters ever. Eve LOVES romantic Christmas movies and even watches them on her computer at work. She is the soft, idealistic sister who gets mistreated by her boss and passed over for promotions, possibly because she watches movies on her computer at work. Just throwing that out there. Lacy is the hardened, bitter sister who can't keep a job or a boyfriend and hates Christmas and Christmas movies. One night while out for a walk, Eve mentions how she wishes life could be like the Christmas movies she watches, which was overhead by Magic Santa, totally dipping into folks conversations, who rings his bell and a wish has been granted.
When the two ladies wake up the next morning, they are no longer in that dirty city but in Holiday Town, complete with perfectly done makeup and hair, along with matching Christmas PJ's which just makes them even more adorable. Really, these two kids are cuter than puppies and kittens. Obviously upon waking they both freak out, but then they meet their Christmas Granny (Brigid Duffy) who gives them some waffles, which almost always makes everything okay, Eve figures out she's in Christmas Movie Land and being an expert in the field knows she just has to play out the part. Bitter Lacey has no idea why she's been included in this nonsense. Your the best friend Lacy, and you kind of look like the Best Friend of Color a little bit, and your thankless part is to lend moral support, and of course expect nothing and then get nothing n return. That is if this movie in a movie is being true to the genre.
So everything goes as one would expect with caroling, snowball fights, cute kids, cookies and a critical task, that being 'Save the Christmas Festival'! Better still, Eve's favorite holiday movie actor is her boyfriend in this reality. Now here's where we run into a bit of a problem with Eve. If she watches these movies as religiously as she claims she does, then she should know full well that a heroine who starts a movie with a boyfriend, will NOT have that same boyfriend when the movie is over. That's how it works. She should know this. Sure enough, the eventual REAL boyfriend, Dustin (Ryan Merriman) shows up to help her save the festival. Lacy is still sitting around being bitter until she meets Paul (Brant Daugherty) the goofily handsome baker who tries to steal her heart. But even in fantasy Christmas Land, Lacy tries to sabotage even fake pretend love.
So just as in a regular Christmas movie, the plan to save the festival in pretend movie land falls apart, both girls lose their men... Eve should've known all of this was going to happen... until it all comes back together and both girls get their men back! On Christmas! In a place that doesn't actually exist. But now they've learned some valuable life lessons that they take back with them to the real world and life will be so much better... BUT NOT SO FAST!!! Somehow these fake men that actually didn't exist also comeback to the real world with them, and NOW everybody can be happy. At Christmas. But we got questions.
So A Christmas Movie Christmas is just fine. It's cute, it's fun, it has all the tropes we expect to see in our Romantic Christmas Movies since it's tongue was firmly in it's cheek, that is until it started to take itself seriously which kind of sucks out all of satire in such a movie, and all of the fun as well. It just basically turned into yet another Hallmarky Christmas movie, but hey, that's okay!
My questions go a little deeper, and probably aren't even questions that nobody else is asking except me, but I still must propose them. So Magic Santa basically creates two men out of thin air. One for Eve and one for Lucy. Did Santa also create papers for these men who didn't exist in our reality before this moment in time? I'm talking Social Security Numbers, Birth Certificates, a credit history, an employment history and the such? Lucy's man, who is new to our reality, owned bakery back in Christmas town and I don't think a bank is going to give him a loan to own one in what looks like NYC, unless the Santa's forged paperwork for this guy is super tight and has references, so how is he supposed to make a living? Eve's man, as far as I can tell, has NO discernible skills, so what's he gonna do to make them ends? Sell drugs? And where are they gonna live? They literally just met these two clowns and the apartment is already tiny... I foresee some serious problems for these two couples in the very near future. And when they do eventually break up, do they get to roam free in our reality unchecked? That doesn't sound like a good idea to me, especially since I can guarantee you they will not like our reality at all by comparison. Did I mention that everything in Christmas Land is free? Or maybe Magic Santa is going to snatch their reality cards and send them back to the imaginary ether from whence they sprung. I have questions!
Anyway, A Christmas Movie Christmas was kind of fun, just like The Last Action Hero was kind of fun, until it got super dark and stopped being fun... kind of like this one stopped being fun. But a little fun is better than no fun I always say.
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