Mini Movie Review : Holiday in Handcuffs (2007)

 

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Trudie Chandler (Melissa Joan Hart) has one passion in life - art, but right now she's a waitress at Taj's Diner Deluxe.

When her boyfriend dumps her two days before Christmas, she just can't face what her over-bearing mother who is expecting to meet her future son-in-law will say. In her desperation, Trudie kidnaps the gorgeous David (Mario Lopez,) a customer in the diner.

Although he spends most of the next day trying to escape from her, he beings to sympathize with her – her parents are both critical of her life and her passion for art and want her to get a real career.

Melissa Joan Hart is adorable as the hapless and hopeless Trudie, and Mario Lopez is excellent as kidnap victim, David. Markie Post and Timothy Bottoms are wonderfully infuriating as Trudie's unreasonable parents.

Great performances all round. Holiday in Handcuffs is a really cute movie, funny, poignant in places, and is suitable for all the family.

x Holly-Anne x

Mini Movie Review : Snow (2004)

 

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The Snow movies are an absolute must for all the family this Christmas!

A slimy big game hunter is given the task of finding a herd of reindeer for San Ernesto Zoo in California. Unfortunately, one of the reindeer he captures just happens to belong to Santa! It's just a few days before Christmas and Nick Snowden, taking over the job of Santa form his father for the first time, has to find Buddy the Reindeer and teach him how to fly before Christmas Eve; the sleigh just won't fly with just seven of the critters.
 

Nick Snowden can travel between places via mirrors and some magic dust and has landed at the zoo to find Buddy. But it's just not going to be that easy to get Buddy back home; Nick has been seen on the CCTV monitor, climbing into the reindeer pen and is mistaken for a crazy man. How on earth is he going to get Buddy back and win the heart of Sandy who works at the zoo, without her thinking he need locking up?
 

A really funny, romantic wee movie with a rather quirky Santa, the likes of which you're never seen. Great acting, funny script, and good family fun for everybody.
 

Remember to watch the sequel Snow 2 : Brain Freeze as well; it's just as cute and just as funny!

x Holly-Anne x



Mini Movie Review : Snowglobe (2007)

  

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First off, I absolutely LOVE this movie!  It has fast become one of my favorites after discovering it in 2012 and I watch it every year now.  It's a gem!

Angela's parents think she's never going to settle down and start a family – having a date would be a good start! The have a new tenant, Eddie, in the apartment building they own – and he'd make the perfect son in law, they reckon.

 

But all Angela (Christina Milian) wants to do is to escape from her dysfunctional (but loving) family. Eddie gives her a gift – a snowglobe – which magically transports her to a magical winter wonderland where every single day is Christmas and everything is perfectly calm – and perfectly perfect! She meets Douglas there (played hilariously by Matt Keeslar,) who is truly Mr. Perfect. Well, Mr. Too Perfect, actually.
 

After a mishap with the snowglobe, Angela becomes stuck in the perfect Christmas world and realizes that her own family maybe aren't so bad after all.
 

A really cute family movie, a little bit of romance, and plenty of laughs.
 

x Holly-Anne x