Caroline Christmas-Hope (Nathalie Cox) wants a perfect Christmas. It's the same thing she's wanted every year since her father (Kelsey Grammer) walked out on Christmas Day twenty years ago. It makes her a neurotic wreck every year, something her bumbling husband (Kris Marshall) does nothing to help alleviate. To make things worse, her youngest sister (Tallulah Riley) secretly visited their estranged father in Florida and invited him and his girlfriend (April Bowlby) to Caroline's house for the holidays.
The central problem with this movie is that it had an ensemble cast that it didn't know how to use, so it tried to shoehorn in 14 different plots and 0 characterization so nothing made any sense and no one's motivations mattered. It also tried really hard to make sure there wasn't a villain and it could have used one. Of all the Netflix holiday movies I watched this year, it was worse than Hot Frosty and The Merry Gentlemen. At least those were campy fun. This was just bad. I could pick it apart like a leftover turkey but honestly, what's the point? You already know if you're going to enjoy it or not. And if you do enjoy it, great. More power to you. It's streaming on Netflix.
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