Dancing Through The Snow
Say hello to
Michael (Colin Lawrence), a man’s man if ever there was one. He has a manly job as a fireman, at 6’2” and
I’m guessing 225 he could easily be a tight end for the Saskatchewan RoughRiders,
he drinks beer with his homeboy, he’s a wonderful father to his young daughter
Lily (Bianca Lawrence) and a doting son to his mom (Candus Churchill). Best part about this man though… critical to
this movie moving forward… is that his wife is long dead. I’m not quite sure they told us how she died,
could’ve been cancer or maybe murder in which he might still be a suspect… Oh
wait, that’s Engaged to a Psycho. Gotta
keep these Lifetime movies straight in my brain.
Across town in Snowyville Canada, we will also meet Olivia (AnnaLynne McCord), and
aside from having an amazing head of hair which could be a character unto
itself, things aren’t going so well for the kid right now. Her dance studio is struggling, the bills are
due, her folks want her to move to Florida and she hates Florida like any
normal person and I think she has a drinking problem. Mind you this was never expressly told to us, but
in most of her spare time, which she spends with her bestie Jordyn (Lydia
Campbell), they’re at the bar hitting the hooch.
So how are
these two going meet? Christmas tree
shopping of course! Olivia was picking a
tree at the lot when Michael, out of the blue, started harassing her… uh
helping her pick the right kind of tree.
Olivia, for some unknown reason, thought the guy with the in depth tree
knowledge who offered assistance she didn’t ask for must work at the store and
asked him to carry it out to her car for her, which of course he does not, or
maybe he did, I can’t remember, but regardless of all of that, he does get a coffee date out of his rather effective Christmas tree stalking technique.
Olivia also
doesn’t know she’s about to have coffee with a minor celebrity as Michael’s
gawdawful best friend Noah (Kheon Clarke) posted a video of Michael doing some
dad ballet with his daughter then falling on his ass. Michael gave him explicit instructions to
delete this video, but Noah is the worst.
The upside to this, I guess, is that strange women are blowing up
Michael’s phone wanting to go out with him, and other things.
Ah, but
Michael has no time for them as he only has eyes for Olivia, who by chance also happens to
be his daughter’s dance instructor. That
coffee date goes great, followed by another candlelit date which goes even
better where Olivia pours out her financial woes to Michael, which personally
would’ve ended that date for me, but not for Michael who seems to be falling in
love. Olivia has the deep feels for
Michael as well, inviting him to her cozy, dimly lit, empty dance studio for a
slow dance and makeout session, and probably more because this is a Lifetime move
and NOT a Hallmark move, and itches get scratched in Lifetime movies. The one person who isn’t feeling this
relationship is Michael’s daughter who is totally anti-daddy getting some. Now Michael is put in the unfortunate
situation of choosing love or family, which of course is no choice for a
dad. Not that it matters because the
bills are due on Olivia’s dance studio and she can’t pay the bill. Time to head back Florida, love is derailed.
Unless, of
course, the viral internet star ‘The Dancing Dad’ can somehow start a
fundraiser to raise the cash to save the studio, and what if Michael’s mom had
a serious conversation with her granddaughter on the importance of dad getting
some on occasion? I gotta say it looked
like there was about 80 bucks in that fund raising collection jar from my
vantage point, but whatever, the studio is saved and love is back on track… At
Christmas!
My friends, it is way easier to tell you about these Holiday Romantic movies than to render an actual opinion about them. Rare is the one that's truly terrible, and this one isn't that, and more rare is the one that sets itself apart as actually good, and Dancing through the Snow isn't that either. They are all basically the same. Is AnnaLynne McCord beautiful? Disarmingly so. Is Colin Lawrence Handsome? Homeboy has shoulders that stretch from Montreal to Vancouver. We have a cute kid who is half orphan, a wise old woman spitting sage knowledge, a little cookie baking, Christmas tree shopping, some hot cocoa drinking, tree decorating, canned holiday music in the background and finally, eight movies in, a poison root mistletoe sighting. Though trust me, these two didn't need that plant as an excuse to start making out.
Still haven't seen a snowman or a snowball fight yet this year, which is an outrage, and this one looked like it was actually filmed in the cold as opposed to being filmed in the summer masquerading as winter. We also didn't get a near miss kiss as these two had no time to waste on that, and our leads had decent chemistry together.
Dancing Through the Snow sets up the expected dominos and knocks most of them down. Nothing more, nothing less. Three Vomits!
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