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Candice Cameron Bure’s 2015 entry in the cheesefest that is
Hallmark’s Countdown to Christmas is “A Christmas Detour”. She plays an oddly
bitchy and anxious Paige Summerlind. Paige is travelling to the Big Apple to
meet her “soulmate’s” family to plan their wedding. The movie starts out with
Paige annoying the hell out of everyone at LAX at every turn: Picking a seat
(who does this at the ticket counter at an airport?), pointing out to people at
a newsstand that she wrote the article in a wedding magazine (I would have
called a cop), and bringing on a giant
vision board as a carry one (wouldn’t the flight attendant have stopped her).
She sits beside a cynical bastard named Dylan (no last name
but I am thinking it is McKay) on the flight to New York and goes on and on and
on about fate and soulmates and true love. I was kind of hoping there were
snakes on the plane to shut her up.
Anyway the flight is diverted to Buffalo because of a giant
storm coming up the East Coast and Paige is forced to turn energies into
annoying the other people stuck in Buffalo.
The second half of the movie is a little better not because of Paige and
Dylan but the because of Maxine and Frank the secondary couple. They are a hoot
and provide a nice counterpoint to Paige’s bullshit on the long trip to NYC
(ROAD TRIP!)
So yeah, I didn’t like this one very much, but the last 45
minutes were sweet and worth the ticket price.
Cry Time: 90 Minutes
2 Candy Canes
1 comments:
Agree...another disappointment. But I keep on watching. Still cute and entertaining. Hoping Hallmark is saving the best for last.
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