Baking Spirits Bright | Blogmas Day 3

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It's Blogmas Day 3!

Mira (Rekha Sharma) is determined to make a success of her family's fruitcake business, even if that means working with marketing executive Brady Phillips (Dion Johnstone).

I was looking forward to this one - I have a few movies about baking on the list this year and I'm looking forward to them all!

This one was okay - it had some good moments and some not-so good, so it's a mixed bag.

The story itself isn't particularly gripping.

The audience don't have the emotional history with this fruitcake that Mira has, so there's no way we can be as invested as she is, and because so much of the story is about the fruitcake that we don't care about, it makes it hard to connect.

The main characters don't have the best romantic chemistry. You believe they're friends, and even that they're in the beginning stages of liking each other, but anything more than that just doesn't work.

And it got worse when every character around Mira was telling her over and over again that she liked Brady, while she showed no evidence of this. What happened to show don't tell?

But the most annoying thing about this film is the thing they get right - the side story. The story of Mira's brother, who wanted to be an Olympic athlete but is instead working in the fruitcake business and falls for Brady's marketing assistant is a much better story! The characters had great chemistry, and there's a serious shortage of gay Christmas movies so if I had a choice, that movie is the one I would have watched!

It also would have been fun to explore the sibling dynamics a bit more. Those characters were great and worked well together, I wanted to see more of their interactions.

But something I did like about the main couple is that there was barely any conflict, which isn't always great, but in this story any real conflict would have been forced, so I liked that this was evaded altogether.

Overall, not the best baking movie, or the best Christmas movie.


Title - 8/10

Originality - 4/10

Christmas Spirit - 4/10

Christmas Music - 2/10


It's 22 days until Christmas!

Come back tomorrow for Blogmas day 4!



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