By Catherine Engstrom-Hadley
Staff Writer
The hallmark channel may have started the TV Christmas movie trend with their “Countdown to Christmas”, but over the last few years Netflix has taken over as the new holiday cheer (or cheese) makers. With Netflix delivering over twenty-five Christmas movies to choose from, we whittled it down to the top four must see sugary sweet Christmas movies out this year.
This movie is a warm holiday romance featuring a diverse cast and a decent soundtrack. Songs like “Send My Baby Home” by Andy Powell and “Christmas in the City” by David Ayers make Netflix Christmas Movie Reviews the soundtrack stand out from the crowd of basic Christmas jingles. Ron Cephas Jones gives a great performance as the wise and possibly magical grandfather. The plot is very predictable, and the dialogue is stilted throughout the movie. This movie is best for someone looking for a fun, easy romance movie for the holidays.
The Princess Switch may be another modern retelling of The Prince and The Pauper, but the spin makes it enjoyable enough. Try as she might, the British accent Vanessa Hudgens gave is at best mediocre. The dialogue can be laughably predicable, for instance when the daughter yells “kiss her daddy!” and ends the movie. Princes from faraway kingdoms love clumsy, but charming American girls. Who can blame them? If you like cheesy romance, or you loved Parent Trap, you will love this.
Again, the endearingly awkward American girl falls for a foreign prince. A Christmas Prince: Royal Wedding attempts to mirror real life events for American turned duchess Meghan Markle, with the added twist of a country in peril. This sequel has extra cheese but is still a fun holiday watch. My only question after watching this was, what kind of monster gets married on Christmas?
Kurt Russel plays a sassy, sexy Santa who brings down the jail house in a great rendition of “It’s Christmas Time Pretty Baby,”. While the children have a slightly predictable narrative, Russel did a good job at reimagining Saint Nick. When people point out he doesn’t look exactly like the Santa they imagine, he retorts with “The billboards add 80 pounds!”. Although it is marketed as a family movie, it does have a lot of the markings of a darker, more adult movie. At one point a gang has Santa’s sack of toys and a group of elves attacks them, Santa spends some time at a jail, and a few car break-ins happen. The title, The Christmas Chronicles, hints that we may get another visit from sexy Santa next year.
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