MOVIE REVIEW #2 - A PRINCESS FOR CHRISTMAS

MOVIE REVIEW #2 - A Princess for Christmas

It is November 1st and The Hallmark Channel has started its Festival of Cheese - Countdown to Christmas.  I caught the last 10 minutes of Hitched for the Holidays and I will likely review it later in the season as it is wonderfully awful. I cannot say the same for today's movie "A Princess for Christmas". This movie is just bad. Not even funny bad or ironic bad - just bad.


Acting - Bad
Casting - Bad
Plot - Bad
Cinematography - Bad

However I will muddle through, in the spirit of making you all laugh at my misery. Ok this is a pretty basic "Christmas Heals a Broken Heart" plot. The story revolves around Jule's Daly. She becomes the caretaker to her sister's two children after the tragic death of her sister and brother in law. I envy them because they didn't have to watch this movie.

The brother in law was a member of what I can only assume is some inbred, hemophiliac,  long forgotten branch of European aristocracy. He was disowned when he married the american floozy that was Jules' sister.

Think that's a long way to go to get two american kids into a European Castle for Christmas? So do I. Let's throw in some other story elements that are needed:

1) Grumpy brokenhearted grandfather (played by  Sir Roger Moore who has not aged gracefully) who doesn't want to celebrate Christmas because he misses his dead son. Note: there is one scene where he looks like vampire. See if you can find it.

2) The younger brother of the dead guy, who is in an unhappy relationship with a snooty semi-European twit. (Guess where that one is going).

3) Two American kids (both very odd looking by the way) who are learning to love again after the death of their parents. The girl would be precocious and cute if she wasn't so 2 dimensional. The boy is apparently some kind of rebel but mostly pouts a lot.

The real star of this movie is the castle. They show it off a lot but even the castle isn't that thrilling. Some of the rooms look more like a train station in Topeka Kansas than the height of European luxury.

Any way the little girl defrosts the grandfather's heart and he decides to host a Christmas Ball. Jules falls in love with the younger brother guy. There is some misunderstanding (it is very very contrived) and Jules decides to leave early and let the kids stay for Christmas. Believe it or not the castle's staff haul Jules back to the castle in time for the Ball. She is announced and makes an entrance like Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion.

Anyway you can figure out the plot from here.

If you haven't seen this one, skip it unless there are no other options for Holiday Hilarity.

CRY TIME - 0 minutes no tears were shed during this movie. (ok, might have had a sniffle at the very end...)

Candy Cane Rating  - 1 out of 5