You Can't Fight Christmas
So there’s a scene in this movie where Leslie (Brely Evans) and Edmund (Andra Fuller) are at the bar… lot of time spent at the bar in this movie ‘You Can’t Fight Christmas’… and they are steadily throwing down a few when they spot a piano. Edmund plays, Leslie sings so let’s do tune, maybe a classic Christmas tune called, I don’t know… You Can’t Fight Christmas! Which is the name of this movie! Well these two kids have fun doing this and they are getting a little cozy with each other which means it’s time for that near miss kiss… oh… Oh my… Or an alcohol infused one night stand complete with a Walk of Shame. Don’t think I’ve seen one of those in one of these before. Huh.
Anyway, Leslie is a party designer or something at the Grand Chesterfield Hotel, with Christmas being her biggest event of the year, but trouble for The Chesterfield is on the horizon in the form Edmund, grandson to the owner Mr. James (Richard Grant), and Edmund's business partner Millicent (Persia White). It seems The Chesterfield is bleeding money, possibly because it’s a one season hotel, so future heir Edmund, with Millicent forcing it home, is going to change everything about this joint, which also probably means no more Christmas.
But there’s something about that bubbly cute force of nature Leslie, that Edmund just can’t resist, despite the fact she might have drinking problem. And as far as Edmund goes for Leslie, this guy just does it for her. He can just get it. Obviously. But unfortunately these two are at different ends of the field professionally. Leslie wants to preserve the hotel, Edmund / Millicent want to raze it, and love is also on real shaky ground as Millicent has proposed marriage to Edmund via an actual proposal with pie charts, bullet points, an index, footnotes and bibliography. Who could resist that?
So with love seemingly out the window at least Leslie can save the hotel. With the help of her assistants the festive Kevin (Travis Winfrey) and the traffic stopping walking distraction Belinda (Porsche Coleman) she hijacks Edmunds investor meeting, infuses it with Christmas and the investors love it! At first Edmund was big mad and told Leslie to leave the premises, but when it worked out in his favor he went over to her house to apologize, and officially tell her they can never be because she is a little to unpredictable for him and his staid tastes. Homeboy you could have done that over the phone.
But of course they WILL be. Edmund knows he loves that lady and shows up at her house in literally the best ugly Christmas sweater I have ever seen, professes his feelings as they make out on her front porch in the snow… at Christmas. Eventually they’re gonna walk back in that house and I know what they’re gonna do when they get in that house because we’ve all seen it happen already.
Can TVOne do a Hallmarky Christmas movie? Of course they can and they have many times, it’s just with the addition of little more sex and a lot more drinking, and it’s going to look and sound a little different to some of you is all. In fact I don’t know if I saw a single white person in this movie. Might have Christmas Town it. What is Christmas Towning you might ask? Years ago, the fam saw this movie Christmas town and we commented that we don’t think we saw a single Black person in that movie. The boy said sure there was, and to prove it he went through the movie in slow motion, until he froze it on a frame where some black dude was sitting in the background, in a diner, reading a newspaper. And we have been Christmas Towning movies ever since. Maybe the filmmakers could’ve flipped it a bit and given Leslie a white bestie, but then that would’ve eliminated Porsche Coleman from the movie and that would’ve been completely unacceptable.
Another thing that’s a little different is that main character actually mentioned Jesus in relation to Christmas! What kind of nonsense is this! And at the end the orphan kids sang the Jesus centric ‘Go Tell it on the Mountain’ which is certainly not ‘Jingle Bells’.
Otherwise it’s pretty much a fairly paint by numbers and predictable Holiday movie. Beautiful woman without a man has to stop some evil entity from closing down some other entity, during Christmas, and somehow end up with a man at the end. We had hot cocoa drinking, Christmas caroling, lots of tree decorating considering its the main characters job, snow man building, a wise old dude kicking out mad wisdom, lots of orphan kids, a mistletoe sighting and the best Ugly Christmas Sweater I’ve ever seen.
We were missing a couple of things such as cookie baking, mainly because I don’t think I ever saw a kitchen in this movie, and no near miss kiss, reasons already explained, and I think that’s about all that’s missing in this one.
So is ‘You Can’t Fight Christmas’ a good movie? That’s splitting hairs now isn’t it? But it is entertaining for the genre in which it rests in, and that’s basically all that matters here.
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