Mistletoe In Montana | Blogmas Day 14

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It's Blogmas Day 14!

 A ranch owner (Melissa Joan Hart) feels a connection with a single father (Duane Henry) and his children when they come to stay at her ranch for Christmas.

This was a late addition to Blogmas, and I didn't know before watching this that I've now included two Melissa Joan Hart movies this Blogmas, so that's interesting!

Unfortunately this wasn't one of the best ones.

I knew instantly, pretty much as soon as I put the movie on, that I just wouldn't connect to these characters and I was right. There was just a disconnect, and it didn't change the whole way through.

It's obvious that the filmmakers were trying to be original, and I appreciate that, but this setting just didn't work for a Christmas film. Maybe it's because no one made an effort to actually make it feel like Christmas. This could have taken place over the course of a week in July and it wouldn't have made a difference.

There was never any chemistry between the characters. It didn't feel like anything was building, and when things started to get more romantic it just didn't work for me.

But that could also be because I didn't care about the characters. We never really got to know them, they didn't get to know each other that well, and the fact that there were also children in the mix that they never really took into account just made the whole potential relationship feel really unrealistic.

The side story didn't really add anything, but it did give us a couple with more chemistry than the main couple!

And then, and this is just a personal gripe, I hated the fact that her name was Merry. I get the Christmas theme, and this was the most Christmassy part of the film, but it just felt so out of place!

Overall, this film just didn't work for me, and there's not much more I can really say about it!


Title - 7/10

Originality - 5/10

Christmas Spirit - 2/10

Christmas Music - 3/10


It's 11 days until Christmas!

Come back tomorrow for Blogmas day 15!




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