I like this film, because I have spent so many years working in retail that it is enough to make you forget what Christmas is all about, so I can understand Danica Mckellar's character. However, I don't really rate her as an actress, there is something about her that is comedic, that takes away from the more straight acted element of the film.
David Haydn Jones is gorgeous and I would let him paint me any day and he plays his part well too, but the star of this film is Christian Convery who plays the little boy, Cooper. He is absolutely adorable.
The main premise of the story, creating a Christmas display in less than two weeks is highly impractical and very unlikely, but I suppose it does it's work here as part of the magic of Christmas and a way to bring two people together, but I think I would have liked to have seen them studying the past a bit more to really make me understand why the MacDougall's history was so important.
Also, if Holly, the Assistant Manager can't cope with the Manager taking an afternoon off, what does she do when she's on holiday? Should she really be left alone to run the store?
Also, a lot of the props are just wrong, this is something that a lot of these films need to work on and once again they have the crappiest Christmas tree, that's already half dead.
It has a nice quota of Christmas and I'm a sucker for a love story, so it still wins for me.
The main premise of the story, creating a Christmas display in less than two weeks is highly impractical and very unlikely, but I suppose it does it's work here as part of the magic of Christmas and a way to bring two people together, but I think I would have liked to have seen them studying the past a bit more to really make me understand why the MacDougall's history was so important.
Also, if Holly, the Assistant Manager can't cope with the Manager taking an afternoon off, what does she do when she's on holiday? Should she really be left alone to run the store?
Also, a lot of the props are just wrong, this is something that a lot of these films need to work on and once again they have the crappiest Christmas tree, that's already half dead.
It has a nice quota of Christmas and I'm a sucker for a love story, so it still wins for me.