Christmas Movie Review #1 - Tis the Season for Love

And here we go! Hallmark’s first original movie of the season is Tis the Season for Love. This started out as a pretty typical “Christmas heals a broken heart” story. Beth Baker is an out of work actress living on the couch of her (oddly evil looking) roommate looking for her first acting break. It isn’t working out for Beth. (Note if the acting of the character Beth Baker is as bad as the acting of the actress Sarah Lancaster, this is not surprising).

So Beth decides to go back to the small town where she grew up, to celebrate the holidays. Everyone in her town is excited to see her since she apparently cut all of them out of her life when she moved to the big city. Her ex boyfriend is now married with kids and everyone has moved on in life (as people do). At one point she goes to see the town Santa Claus (yeah I thought it was borderline creepy on both their parts) and he gives her this magic key that gives her the power to see what her life might have been like, turning this into an “It’s a Wonderful Copyright Infringement."

So I got up to get some tea at about 9:00 p.m. and the second half of the movie is a little different, now there has been some kind of zombie apocalypse and we are following the story of a guy on a killing rampage. He gets captured by some psychologist/cheese maker and is being taught Akido. I am not sure if this is some surreal Christmas Fantasy thing or what. More once the movie is over...

Ok, so it seems that my wife may have changed the channel to The Walking Dead last night, sorry if there was some confusion, now back to the review of "Tis the Season for Love". 

Sadly the movie doesn't make a hell of a lot more sense watching it without the zombies.  It is overly planned out, it doesn't naturally flow from one situation to another, and it is disjointed as well. It is almost like the writer had two ideas for Christmas movies and jammed them together. There is a story about a woman coming back to her home town and finding that her real dream is to be happy and in love, then there is this whole other story about the choices we make and following our dreams. In the middle of all that we have a magical key, a kids Christmas pageant, and a David Mamet play.

I found it hard to follow. READ THAT AGAIN, I found a Hallmark Christmas movie hard to follow. I mean this isn't a deep complex movie like Momento, this is Tis the Season for Love if it is hard to follow, I am going to attribute that to bad writing, not an intellectual failure on my part. Other's may disagree...

I won't spoil the last 45 minutes... Seriously if you didn't see it coming from the first 5 minutes you are all hopped up on egg nog.

CRY TIME - NOT AT ALL, NOT EVEN A SNIFFLE. (well ok maybe at the very end.)

I give this movie, 1 Morgan. I would have enjoyed a Walking Dead Cross over this one.