My Christmas Fiancé | Blogmas Day 13

 

It's Blogmas day 13!

Maya (Jennifer Freeman) agrees to pretend to be her boss's (Jack Parr) fiancé so that he doesn't have to get married.

I picked this one because I love the fake dating trope in rom-coms, and I really wanted to find a movie for Blogmas that used this trope.

Honestly though, I probably shouldn't have bothered, because this film wasn't great.

The story took me a while to get into. And while I wasn't loving it straight away, I was hopeful that when the characters started their fake dating/engagement, it would become more interesting.

But it didn't.

One reason for this is how long the characters spent at work. They're both chefs and the majority of the first half of the film is spent in the kitchen cooking things that the audience don't care about. I understood the need to establish the relationships but it took way too long to do so.

The characters weren't believable as anything - colleagues, friends, partners, anything. There was absolutely no chemistry of any kind.

The tone was so bland. It wasn't Christmassy, it wasn't romantic, it was just kind of... there.

Overall, not only was this quite boring with characters who had no chemistry, but I don't even think there was a mention of Christmas!

Title - 2/10

Originality - 4/10

Christmas spirit - 1/10

Christmas music - 1/10


It's 12 days until Christmas!

Come back tomorrow for Blogmas day 14!



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