Do Not Move To "Christmas Town"

Christmas Town (2008)

Not Rated

Starring Nicole de Boer, Patrick Muldoon, Gig Morton, Garry Chalk

Directed by George Erschbamer

The Story:

Liz (Boer) is a successful real estate agent who doesn't have time for Christmas to interfere with her sales quota. She gets a request form her father (Chalk) to come visit at the new city he lives in, so reluctantly she takes her son (Morton) and away they go. But this idyllic town has some surprises in store for Liz, Patrick (Muldoon) being the most prominent. By the time their visit is over, perhaps Liz's whole outlook on Christmas will change.

Well you know me, among the many genres of films I love to watch, Christmas movies hold a very important place in my heart.

I love a great Christmas movie.

I enjoy a good Christmas movie.

Christmas movies that aren't that great, well they make me sad.

I'm kinda sad right now.

:)

This movie was generic, boring and downright forgettable.

The acting is stiff, wooden, feeble, you name it, it runs the gamut of non-emotional.

Then the movie decides it wants to take every usual plot point in a Christmas movie (is that really Santa?; defiant child; romance for a single parent...etc. etc. etc.) and shove it all into one movie.

Normally, you pick just one and concentrate on making a good movie on that subject.

The makers of this film would have been wise to try that concept.

Apparently it made it's debut on the ABC Family 25 Days of Christmas spectacular back in 2008 or 2009.

And then hasn't been seen much since.

Well Netflix has it streaming now, so I watched it.

Of all the Christmas movies that fight to get viewed annually at our house, this one isn't a contender.

If you want it on for background noise, so be it, but I bet you could find something much better out there.

Available to stream on Netflix if you're so willing.

Congratulations on being the first Turkey of the Year candidate for 2016.

Final Grade: D