I am absolutely hooked on watching Christmas movies. They are so entertaining and I need to start sharing my reviews on this website. Since they are notoriously cheesy, I am going to watch as many Christmas movies as I can and compare each of them to a type of cheese. I will then rate them out of 5 snowflakes and give each movie a “flake rate” because it wouldn’t be the holiday spirit without it.
SPOILER ALERT: I do not hold back any details of the plot, so if you don’t want the ending ruined for yourself, wait to read this until after you have watched the movie.
It is important to note that this is for FUN. I do not have malicious intentions with posting my opinions of these movies. I am NOT an expert on film, only an expert at sitting on my couch in front of my TV!
These reviews were inspired by Alex Stewart of Sassy Confetti. She is reviewing Hallmark Christmas movies on her Instagram, and they are absolute gold!
A Cinderella Story: Christmas Wish was cute way to turn Cinderella into Christmas, and that’s about it. It hits all the main plot points of Cinderella and it takes place during the holidays. Duh. Anyways, you want my review and not my summary so let me get back on track here.
The main character, Kat, works at Santa Land as a Christmas elf and her love interest, Dominic Wintergarden (…seriously, what’s up with all these wintery last names in these movies!? Ha), is Santa Land’s Santa. They both know each other from school but for some reason Dominic does not recognize her when only her hair color changes while she is an elf. Basically, there’s a lot to unload here and not enough for me to hold your attention, so I’ll just give my overall review.
Like I acknowledged above, the movie was cute. I just think it’s really hard to reinvent the original A Cinderella Story with Hillary Duff. With that said, I don’t think I would recommend watching this one. It was just… much.
As far as cheese goes, this is the individually-wrapped Babybel cheese that are a solid snack, but you probably wouldn’t eat multiple in one sitting. Unless eating more than one in a sitting is a thing… If that’s the case, I’ll see myself out!
There was a solid attempt to make this movie good so I’m going to give them the extra star instead of declaring it a total flop. Here are my follow-up questions…
- When the evil stepmother burns the invitation to the Wintergarden’s ball, why wouldn’t Kat just rely on her ID and the guest list to get into the ball instead? The movie takes place during this day and age.
- The obvious… How did Dominic not recognize Kat in costume? Only her hair color was different!
