It is already a tradition of these dates: little tree, garlands, feathers, buying gifts and Put a Christmas movie on Netflix. It doesn’t matter which one: there are dozens of them to choose from, and every year the catalog grows bigger and bigger. And I’m not referring to classics like ‘Die Die’ or ‘Go Santa Claus!’, but to the core of what we understand as a “Christmas movie”, that is, a production made with four duros in which there must always be a lot of love for these holidaysthe occasional Christmas carol, Santa Claus winking and the girl who hates Christmas going on to love her without remission.
With the heyday of social networks, commenting on Christmas movies the more sweetened and cheesy the better has become fashionable. Movies like ‘I hate Christmas’, ‘Christmas to order’, ‘Storm for Christmas’, ‘Christmas on the farm’ or ‘Christmas in the palace’ they mix forgotten actors with directors who have never had a chance and scripts that are paid by the kilo. The result, as predictable as lucrative. Ho Ho Ho.
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This year, TikTok has spoken out about what is the worst christmas movie of 2022and the decision has been, without a doubt, ‘Christmas Angel’ (‘Angel Falls Christmas’, not to be confused with ‘Christmas in Angel Falls’, from five years ago), of which a clip has been highlighted in the fact that Chad Michael Murray does that clearly skating without ice or skates.
The scene is hilarious and went viral right away, but here we are wondering… And if it turns out that it is not as bad as it seems? What if there’s a context to that scene that we’re missing out on and it’s a hidden gem? So I got hot chocolate and got under the blanket ready to see ‘Christmas Angel’ from start to finish. It’s been an experience torn between laughter, confusion and boredom: I don’t know if it’s the worst Christmas movie, but I do know that it’s 80 minutes that I will never get back.
let put you up to date with the bizarre plot. It turns out that Ally is an ER nurse who loves her job but, to no one’s surprise, she hates Christmas. In fact, her boyfriend, Josh, decides to leave her because she is more focused on her career than her relationship, something to which she responds by deciding to show him that she has Christmas spirit. Luckily for her, she meets Gabe, a boy who speaks with a strangely robotic voice and who decides Help her complete her self-imposed Christmas chores to show that she knows how to live the holidays to the fullest.
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These Christmas chores include bake cookies, decorate a tree or sing Christmas carols. For some reason, Abby needs help for all of them, and Gabe is always there to help. And it turns out that the man is really an angel who has arrived (along with two others) to teach her the meaning of Christmas and put her back together with Josh. But, alas, he is falling in love with her and losing her powers by the way. If you’re still wondering how it ends at this point, I wish you good luck.
‘Christmas Angel’ is stupidly complex, proposing a universe that does not even explain the rules: yes, it is a Christmas movie, but if you want to go a little further and propose a hierarchy of angels that help altruistically, it is not enough with three scenes where you let the December 25th they will have to leave and falling in love with a human is regular. Why are there three angels watching out that a random couple ends up together? Is there no one else who needs your help in the whole town? Why this strange dedication to Ally and Josh going to Christmas Eve dinner together?
I know what many of you are thinking: It’s a Christmas movie, there’s no need to think about it. And it is true, but it is fascinating within its own fall into the creative void. She has all the Christmas ingredients (the decorations, the carols, the snow, the love, the candy) but at the same time she doesn’t feel festive at all. The script seems to have been written in an afternoon without thinking about what it’s telling, the direction doesn’t make an effort and the actors are thinking more about getting home and going to the beach (let’s not forget that these tapes are shot in summer) than reciting their dialogues with a little emotion. The result of this mixture of nonsense? A work impossible to categorize.
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What is an actor like you doing in a place like this?
Flagrant is the presence of Chad Michael Murray, who in his day was one of the stars of ‘One tree hill’ and Now he is a regular in movies like ‘Toying with the holidays’, ‘Surprise at Christmas’ or ‘Write before Christmas’. Here her voice sounds strangely robotic, like she’s forgotten to act. In fact, each of his sentences is pronounced in the wrong tone. So much so that I spent half the film wondering about what happened on the set and why no one corrected him. At his side, Jessica Lowndes, who appeared in ‘90210’ and later subscribed to Christmas movies (‘I’m glad it’s Christmas’, ‘Christmas at Pemberley Mansion’ or ‘Rediscovering Christmas’). More than a movie, it is the flawed result of a failed assembly line.
Interestingly, its director, Jerry Ciccoritti, has won several awards in Canada as director of episodes of, for example, ‘Schitt’s Creek’, but its decisions are as bizarre as the movie itself. There are even fades to black in the middle of a scene that continue into the next shot as if nothing had happened! ‘Christmas Angel’ is much more than the skating scene without skates: he is a Frankenstein who wants to be more than he is but without putting effort.
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Even if you’re a fan of all the Christmas movies, this is going to look weird. It’s a movie broken to the core, not enough money to do everything it wants to do: you always know where the snow cannon is, there’s no ice on the skating rink, special effects are missing, the gags are less funny than the dramatic scenes and gives off the same Christmas feeling as ‘Schindler’s List’. None of those involved in ‘Christmas Angel’ wanted to be doing it, and it shows. For once, TikTok was right: avoid it… or take the opportunity to see it after a lot (a lot) of champagne. The laughs, yes, are assured.
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