![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Patricia (Steve's mother) seems to have a large influence on Cynthia's decisions. Naturally, this is too soon for Cynthia to become pregnant and Steve getting fired clearly planned to advance to partner with the firm he was working with. They have their entire lives planned to a "t" as to when they have accomplished certain milestones including promotions and children. The very beginning establishes they are the type of people to plan things ahead, financially and otherwise. Cynthia is pregnant while Steve is fired. The two are hiding something from one another. The cast is lead by Susie Abromeit and Dillon Casey as Mr. While this movie is centered around a newlywed couple and family struggles, it still retains a "G" rating while being enjoyable for adults as well. ![]() With a Christmas film, you want it to be something for the whole family. ![]() In conclusion, watchable but far from perfect. Everything is resolved too neatly at the end, common in Hallmark films. The script has some light-hearted-ness and pathos, but it could have been tighter and can be too heavy on the sentimentality and cheesy. Few of the characters are interesting and nobody has much depth, the most likeable character here is easily Steve. Making it further difficult to connect more with a story that has good moments with the leads but overall feels far too over-familiar and contrived with a sometimes pedestrian pace. Do agree about the film stretching credibility a lot beyond breaking point, so it all feels ridiculous. Really intensely disliked the mother, a character that has so negative character traits and so few redeeming merits again exaggerated to the point of being near-intolerable. Her mess ups also become rather tiresome and the later ones are not amusing or endearing in the slightest. Conversely, 'A Perfect Christmas' really takes the idiotic aspect of the main character to extremes, to the extent that she becomes increasingly less likeable and becomes annoying. The cast do do their best, with the only not so good performance coming from the mother in my opinion. One of the aspects that has always varied with Hallmark is the music, to me here in 'A Perfect Christmas' it suited the film just fine. 'A Perfect Christmas' also looks great, beautiful scenery, charmingly festive decor and slickly shot. They do generate a sincere and never awkward chemistry and the central relationship does have a good deal of charm and heart. Both Susie Abromeit and Dillon Casey give their all to their material and are endearing enough, Casey especially in the much more likeable role. 'A Perfect Christmas', unfortunately not a particularly accurate title, was a middling effort of theirs, from its respective year and overall. Hallmark have certainly done a lot worse, they have also done a good deal better. It also has too much of most of the negative things mentioned above. It has elements of the above mentioned positive adjectives. 'A Perfect Christmas' is one of those watchable films, but to me it was an uneven film with a lot of good and a lot of bad. Really did want for 'A Perfect Christmas' to be all of those latter adjectives, as Hallmark have shown quite a number of times that they can make watchable films. There have been many times where they have also been very cute, warm hearted, heartfelt, charming and appealingly acted. Hallmark Christmas films do have a tendency more often than not to be very predictable, cliched, very cheesy, too schmaltzy and over-scored, the worst of them also contrived and unrealistic. ![]()
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