Christmas, Love and Fudge

2024

Action / Family / Romance

5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 80%
IMDb Rating 5.9/10 10 293 293

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23.976 fps
1 hr 28 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by adamjohns-42575 4 / 10

Fudged it!

A Recipe For A Christmas Romance/Christmas, Love And Fudge (2024) -There was a large part of me that felt I should have trusted my gut and turned this film off when I first thought about it, just a few minutes in to be honest, but I felt that I owed it to Christopher Russell, who played Simon to see it through. He has generally always been very good in his other work and easy on the eye.I immediately didn't like Erin Karpluk as Amanda though. She was certainly quite grating and officious to start with. Her voice annoyed me and she just didn't seem as good as she had been in these films previously.They made Simon seem ridiculous and a bit inept at anything except his main job and sadly it wasn't Chris' best performance, which along with the other actors being so poor made me assume that it must have been the direction that made the whole film seem so daft. Because the comedy wasn't clever at all, if it really existed, but the setup seemed to suggest that comedy was what they were trying for, which in the end ultimately ruined the romance.By the last act I wasn't so angry that I'd stuck with it, but I wouldn't return to it again, even for Chris who they also made look physically odd and a bit old.It was obvious that this was low budget, based on the fact that Amanda's Bakery set also seemed to double with his Aunt Jackie's (Janet Anderson) Fudge Shop and then again as the local diner where they also recycled Tanya (Toby Marks) the waitress from the fudge shop. Not to mention the lame looking Bakery Competition set, which might have just been a well draped garage with Christmas decorations for the impact it had. It was also where the presenter of "The Big Holiday Pastry Show" Jake (Brian McCune) and KT Cinnamon (Jacqueline Marie) showed their inability to deliver with their performances that were far too much.The underlying musical score was too twinkly and interfering making the vocal track overly exaggerated and harsh as well. Perhaps that's what made their acting feel bad, being loud and deliberate, but I didn't think so.Maybe it was the three writers that it took to create such a simple story. And what bad writing it was. The two leads inevitable argument/moment of animosity that all these films have was so forced and contrived and I didn't think that they needed to be so aggro to each other on their second meeting because they hadn't fallen out at the first.I also thought that her declaration at the competition felt wrong because she hadn't appeared to notice that she'd fallen in love with him and it was therefore out of character and the blue. The final kiss felt too familiar for them because they just hadn't got to that point by then. I did see the romance blossoming but the argument and the confusion over Kevin (Dalias Blake) was still in the air.And I didn't need Kevin singing or at all. Having him as another potential love interest was a complication that the story was not in need of. He was just a bit creepy and unlikeable too.I did like the journey to find the ingredients for Aunt Jackie's fudge in order to save the shop and try to win her the competition. Even if it was a little bit far fetched and I had definitely seen something similar before, the working out of the clues to bring them closer was a plot that has repeatedly worked well and possibly the only saving grace to this story.What I really didn't like though was that they were obviously writing about things that they weren't experts on which is a constant in these films and they need to get a props team that know about those subjects too, like baking for instance. Amanda went to all that trouble for that tiny drizzle of sauce that was not a mirror glaze!! And that cake looked like something from a 1970's 'Woman's Weekly' or a cardboard one from a pantomime! The "Molé" didn't look like what I knew either.Also any specialist shops like hers and the fudge place have had to diversify in this day and age. They can't not be online unless they're in the middle of New York and very well established so that the product speaks for itself and even then people worldwide would want it too. It's an arc that they use all too often that just isn't relevant anymore.And how did she have time to be away from her shop/work anyway? At Christmas!!!??My only other note was that if they really ate all of the cakes and biscuits that she made for him as well as the fudge taste testing they would have got fat and spotty very quickly.Personally I would say don't watch it, there are many better ones out there, but my taste isn't everybody else's.4.08/10.
Reviewed by anabelclass 10 / 10

A Christopher Christmas

Reviewed by michael_sluka 5 / 10

Cute story with weak male lead

Although another rehash of the 'baking' motif, the storyline of a culinary ingredient mystery was generally cute and engaging, serving as the springboard to the romance of the leads.I think Christopher Russell fits the image profile for a Hallmark male lead better than 90% of other actors that are used in these films, so why script him to be sort of a bumbling, non-confident person? It certainly doesn't make sense if he is supposedly a successful PR consultant to major corporations. I assume Hallmark movies are crafted to appeal to women, but do women really find appeal in men who are casted to be neither confident nor competent on the screen? It detracts significantly from the enjoyment of the movie.
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