Noëlle

I love Bill Hader, and Anna Kendrick is great...but this was awful. Every show and movie I watch lately is forcing this feminist agenda down my throat, and now even Santa. No thanks. Shirley MacLaine is still alive....that surprised me though...

Seriously? Why? I love Christmas movies and I was really looking forward to this one. Leave Santa alone! Santa is not a woman. I'm sick of all these woke movies trying to get us to believe men are incompetent and can't do anything and women have to take over and do a better job. Over it!

Then this movie is for you. I might have smiled once or twice but not more than that. Predict plot, jokes that aren't funny, typical 2019 Disney production.

I was looking forward to watching this film with my family, but boy was I disappointed. The film was very low budget, which I could work around. The plot was very predictable and there were many cheesy lines. Again, these are things I could work around, having seen many Hallmark movies. What rubbed me the wrong way was feeling like an agenda was being pushed. If I'm watching a cutesy Christmas movie, it's to be entertained, not to presented an example of how flexible gender roles are. I really wish a different movie was selected.

If you like, cute, heartwarming, and funny then I suggest you check this film out for yourself. Anna Kendrick is as usual a delight and the rest of the cast doesn't disappoint. Like the movie Elf, it has a message for the tenderhearted, the kid in all of us. I laughed, smiled and shed a little tear. I plan to add this to my annual Christmas playlist as soon as I can.