Erin and Luke! I'm so sorry you had to follow this script. For starters, take as many Christmas and romance tropes that you can and jam them all together around the party-planner premise. Worst of all was misunderstood-what-you-saw which doubled down with misunderstood-what-you-heard with a different person not a minute later. Please!
Then there was dialogue. They must have thought it was witty. Maybe for a 13 year old. At least I don't remember hearing "you like-like" him or her. But add to the dialogue some grown ups acting pretty goofy, and it didn't really fit.
We didn't get off to a great start with Ella. Does any viewer of this type movie not hate the boastful overconfident incompetent glide-through-life character? If that hadn't been overdone, it wouldn't be so bad. Fortunately Ella turned it around pretty quickly.
Didn't love the French accents.
After all this criticism, which I think is at least mostly accurate, I didn't hate the movie. Part of that is because Ella was almost like a different person for most of the movie after that rough start. By half way or more Krakow and Macfarlane were clicking together. I may be biased because I love these two individually. Something about Krakow makes you go ah.
Also, there was one interesting twist on the usual. Usually the lead potential lovers have a spat based on one discovering something the other was hiding, but in this case it was the sisters. The spat between the sisters was carried out and healed very much like it would be with the lovers.
Then there was dialogue. They must have thought it was witty. Maybe for a 13 year old. At least I don't remember hearing "you like-like" him or her. But add to the dialogue some grown ups acting pretty goofy, and it didn't really fit.
We didn't get off to a great start with Ella. Does any viewer of this type movie not hate the boastful overconfident incompetent glide-through-life character? If that hadn't been overdone, it wouldn't be so bad. Fortunately Ella turned it around pretty quickly.
Didn't love the French accents.
After all this criticism, which I think is at least mostly accurate, I didn't hate the movie. Part of that is because Ella was almost like a different person for most of the movie after that rough start. By half way or more Krakow and Macfarlane were clicking together. I may be biased because I love these two individually. Something about Krakow makes you go ah.
Also, there was one interesting twist on the usual. Usually the lead potential lovers have a spat based on one discovering something the other was hiding, but in this case it was the sisters. The spat between the sisters was carried out and healed very much like it would be with the lovers.