I had a lot of fun watching "12 Men of Christmas", that was next on my alphabetical trawl through Sky Movies offerings, not because it was any good - but because it was so bizarrely awful.
After being fired from a New York advertising company after finding her boss in a compromising position with her fiancé, rather than suing for wrongful dismissal, E.J. (Kristen Chenoweth) heads to Montana, with one of the few job offers she can get, to help attract corporate events to the area. Having seen the financial struggles of the local Mountain Rescue team, E.J decides to convince them to pose for a suggestive calendar to help raise funds. With this plan though, she butts heads with Will Albrecht (Josh Hopkins) a local businessman and volunteer.
It should be pointed out, "12 Men of Christmas" is a Hallmark TV movie, so the effort and money spent on it is not that high, still - it's awful. Hilariously so. A shambolic mess of ideas half thought through, then abandoned, or at the very least explored for two minutes before moving on. It's like watching a 90 minute summation of a season of a TV show where each problem that befalls E.J and her plan is immediately resolved without any drama whatsoever. "The calendar needs a corporate sponsor" beat "Here's a sponsor" - "There are people objecting to the content of the calendar" beat "Oh well". The initial premise is way overplayed too, with E.J. acting less like a city girl in the country and more like an alien landing on Earth for the first time. The film also likes to pretend like its established things to play off later. It pretends like there's a relationship between E.J and one of the Model/Rescue team and then hints like he's cheating on her, before ignoring that for most of the rest of the film before resolving the plot point in the end.
It should be said, I like Kristen Chenoweth and she's gamily up for most of the garbage this film wants her to wade through and nobody else, who you would consider an actor, is staggeringly awful (some of the models crow-barred into the rescue team are though). The points I have given then film all come from Chenoweth's appeal, and the fun I had laughing incredulously at it with my wife.
After being fired from a New York advertising company after finding her boss in a compromising position with her fiancé, rather than suing for wrongful dismissal, E.J. (Kristen Chenoweth) heads to Montana, with one of the few job offers she can get, to help attract corporate events to the area. Having seen the financial struggles of the local Mountain Rescue team, E.J decides to convince them to pose for a suggestive calendar to help raise funds. With this plan though, she butts heads with Will Albrecht (Josh Hopkins) a local businessman and volunteer.
It should be pointed out, "12 Men of Christmas" is a Hallmark TV movie, so the effort and money spent on it is not that high, still - it's awful. Hilariously so. A shambolic mess of ideas half thought through, then abandoned, or at the very least explored for two minutes before moving on. It's like watching a 90 minute summation of a season of a TV show where each problem that befalls E.J and her plan is immediately resolved without any drama whatsoever. "The calendar needs a corporate sponsor" beat "Here's a sponsor" - "There are people objecting to the content of the calendar" beat "Oh well". The initial premise is way overplayed too, with E.J. acting less like a city girl in the country and more like an alien landing on Earth for the first time. The film also likes to pretend like its established things to play off later. It pretends like there's a relationship between E.J and one of the Model/Rescue team and then hints like he's cheating on her, before ignoring that for most of the rest of the film before resolving the plot point in the end.
It should be said, I like Kristen Chenoweth and she's gamily up for most of the garbage this film wants her to wade through and nobody else, who you would consider an actor, is staggeringly awful (some of the models crow-barred into the rescue team are though). The points I have given then film all come from Chenoweth's appeal, and the fun I had laughing incredulously at it with my wife.