Enchanting Christmas | Blogmas Day 18

 

It's Blogmas Day 18!

When Annie's (Ava Jarque) wish makes a princess ice sculpture come to life, she must keep the truth about Jade (Emily Sweet) a secret from her father (Brando White).

I had this film on the Blogmas list last year and swapped it out for something else, so I definitely had to include it this year.

I liked this one a lot more than I thought I was going to.

For a start, it was really nice to have a single-parent story with an older child. Jarque played her part so well and essentially carried the story.

But what made this work so well, and by extension what made the film good, was the relationship between father and daughter. Jarque and White worked so well and had such believable parent-and-child chemistry. Even without the ice princess angle, these two were so interesting to watch by themselves.

Yes this is essentially another 'snowman coming to life' movie, but something about it feels really original. Whether it's because it was a woman coming to life rather than a man, the setting or the actors, this take definitely felt fresh.

The only thing that let the side down for this story was the romance. I was so much more interested in watching Ben be a good father than I was in seeing him potentially fall in love. It would have been interesting to see this story with no romance (though I'm probably the only one who feels that way!)

I also thought the chemistry wasn't quite good enough to make this a romantic story. Again, the father-daughter angle is the best thing about the film and should have been the sole focus.

But having said that, this is a really really sweet story with loveable characters, so it was definitely worth watching.

Title - 4/10

Originality - 6/10

Christmas Spirit - 6/10

Christmas Music - 2/10

It's 7 days until Christmas!

Come back tomorrow for Blogmas day 19!