Maybe it's because I watched Jingle All the Way the other day, but I liked this. Sentimental movies, double for Christmas movies probably, package maybe the last fairytale into romance and holiday "spirit". The ones that are successful, I find, tend to play into it more. These people don't have communication problems and deep seated psychological issues, they just need a push to tell people how they feel and break a particular pattern.
But that's why they're so appealing. Everyone has a pattern that needs breaking and so every character is simultaneously mythic beyond belief and relatable. Coupled with the spirit of the holiday, telling people how you feel and enjoying the company of others, and you have some harmless sentimentality that is divorced from real life and grounded in it, making it an enduring message.
Of course it's unbelievable. What genre really is? It's all about messaging and trappings. And I really don't mind, as a very anxious person, the fantasy of things working out despite, primarily, miscommunication.
But that's why they're so appealing. Everyone has a pattern that needs breaking and so every character is simultaneously mythic beyond belief and relatable. Coupled with the spirit of the holiday, telling people how you feel and enjoying the company of others, and you have some harmless sentimentality that is divorced from real life and grounded in it, making it an enduring message.
Of course it's unbelievable. What genre really is? It's all about messaging and trappings. And I really don't mind, as a very anxious person, the fantasy of things working out despite, primarily, miscommunication.