Christmas Holidate | Blogmas Day 19

 

It's Blogmas day 19!

When Holly (Jasmine Burke) uses her company's app to find a date to bring home for the holidays, a glitch in the app causes more than one date to turn up.

This film had an interesting premise because it seemed really original, and it looked like there would be a lot of chances for fun and humour.

I didn't end up liking it as much as I wanted to.

But one thing I liked was how much more modern it felt than most of the other movies I've watched for Blogmas this year. Even just the idea of her finding her date(s) through an app is original for a Christmas film.

It's nice that the movie was family-focused, but the family it focuses on aren't that interesting and can't really carry the story.

The main couple have chemistry and it was fun to watch them interact, but I never really cared about them one way or the other. And if for some reason they didn't end up together, it wouldn't have mattered to me.

It took about 40 minutes for the film to actually give us the plot we were promised. And when that happened, and multiple dates turned up, it was actually quite fun. I wish they had started this early to give it a bit more time to develop.

But in saying that, once this started, it took way too long to resolve!

And when the film finished, I realised that it felt like a feature-length ad for something that no one wanted to buy. Something about the way it was shot and written was just completely inauthentic.

Overall this had some really fun moments, but all in all wasn't one of the best Blogmas movies. The plot had a lot of potential though!

Title - 7/10

Originality - 7/10

Christmas spirit - 7/10

Christmas music - 2/10

It's 6 days until Christmas!

Come back tomorrow for Blogmas day 20!