Christmas Movie Review #11 - Becoming Santa

An early favorite for this year’s most awesome cheesy Christmas Movie is “Becoming Santa”. So in this wonderfully sweet little film, we have Holly Klaus a veterinarian with a secret. Her Boyfriend, Connor is a Christmas nut and wants to propose but being old-fashioned, he wants to asks Holly’s parents first. 

Here is where Holly’s secret comes into play. Her parents are 80’s sitcom stars Meredith Baxter and Michael Gross (Family Ties).  Actually, their real secret is that they are Santa and Mrs. Claus!!!!!
Well after a strange non-consensual drugging of Connor to get him to the north pole, Conner meets the Clauses. By the way Connor is a bit of a dim Christmas bulb and even with all the signs pointing to SANTA AND MRS. CLAUS, he doesn’t quite get it until about halfway through the movie.

A couple of things I learned in this movie:

Communication of Family Obligations is important.

I don’t think Holly Claus should drug her boyfriend.

Jack Frost is kind of an asshole.

Connor might be good looking but he is a moron.

I will say that this movie had the quickest sniffle time ever for me – 3 minutes.

CANDY CANES: 4

CRY TIME: 3 minutes

Christmas Movie Review #2 - The Christmas Lodge

This is the story of Mary, an architect and preservationist, who returns to The Christmas Lodge, a place full of memories from her childhood to find that this lovely mountain home is not only in a state of disrepair but inhabited by a studly mountain man who is clearly a much better match for her than her city slicker boyfriend, Kent. (By the way you will note that I do not have any links to other films these actors have been in – the reason is that most of them haven’t been in much you have seen, so you can do your own IMDB search this time around).

Mary’s family is somewhat obsessed with the Christmas Lodge, and it is seemingly completely entangled in their lives. Mary decides to take her family (apparently all builders and contractors), to the Christmas Lodge to save it.  

There are some other elements to this movie, a sick grandfather, a little girl in need of a mother, and people who need a family. I am not going to go too deeply into the plot, as I really enjoyed this movie, and don’t want to ruin it!  I liked that it was sappy and sweet, and that the characters were all kind and innocent.

This is a simple movie, with a sweet message and while it was spiritual and Christian themed, it wasn’t overly preachy or heavy handed. If you get a chance watch this one, it will make you smile, and sniffle, and call your mom and tell her you love her.

CRY TIME – 1 Hour and 24 minutes

4 candy canes