Godmothered | Blogmas Day 5
It's Blogmas Day 5! This is a movie that I found on Disney+, and I mainly picked it because the plot is completely different from most of the movies I'll be reviewing throughout Blogmas. Eleanor (Jillian Bell), a fairy godmother-in-training tries to prove that the world still needs fairy godmothers by fulfilling the wish of 10-year-old Mackenzie, only to discover that Mackenzie is now a 40-year-old single mother (Isla Fisher) I didn't love this film. I did like that the plot was original. Throughout the movie it became a bit more conventional, but the overall concept is very different to the usual Hallmark-type Christmas movies. The film is a lot longer than it needs to be. It slow-walks towards the main plot and never really picks up. It's also a lot less magical than I expected, given that it's centred around the concept of a fairy godmother. It felt much closer to a family drama than a magical fairy-tale. And as well as that, it's not really Christmassy. I h...