Christmas Sweethearts (2019 TV Movie) User Reviews

More Colton, Less Everybody Else

[tommy5677 · 4/10 · 14 January 2022]

The only reason this gets 4 stars is because of Colton Little. To him I would say this. It's ok to be relegated to the romance genre but please try to be a little more picky. For godsakes, and your own, fire your manager. If this is the best he can come up with for you then you are doomed.

Yes, to go on about this man because well, he just exudes sex. He's handsome with smoldering eyes, a square jaw, and a strong chin and he makes the struggle to get through this a little easier.

As for schmaltzy holiday romcoms, this is among the worst. The female MC is so hard to like, being a combination of writing and the acting itself. She is such the silly little schoolgirl to which she actually admits in the movie. And that squeaky voice. WTHF is that? When I watched this I was thinking this is the most egregious behavior towards friends I've ever witnessed in one of these movies and had I been any of them I would have told her to go %!?@ herself. It was shocking to watch them all so easily forgive her.

Is this a subtle or not so, form of misogyny on the part of the writer and a willingness of the actors to participate in? I believe it is.

Finding those good romcoms that are low on sap with good acting, production values, and story, is challenging but actually out there. Unfortunately you're stuck with this mess in your search to find them.

Escape from the friend zone

[eddknightuk · 4/10 · 26 November 2020]

Very predictable plot, and acting so hammy it would embarrass a pantomime.

Amateur acting

[dalear · 6/10 · 28 November 2021]

Sad, the acting was really bad. The plot is familiar to too many other movies. If the acting was better, I would give a 5/10. Underneath the lead actresses makeup, I think a pretty woman is there!

The one star is for Colton Little

[lucylou3700 · 1/10 · 1 December 2021]

Colton Little is a doll, and basically the best thing in the movie. The dialogue is stilted and awkward and the main girl is SO bad!! Someone needs to start making decent Christmas movies.

Enjoyable Christmas RomCom

[rromero-13 · 7/10 · 6 December 2019]

When Ashley Seever returns home for the holidays hoping to reconnect with her high school sweetheart Grant, she soon meets his new girlfriend Bella. In an attempt to escape the embarrassment, she and her best friend Liam fake their own holiday romance...but when her fake feelings for Liam start to turn real, Ashley will have to choose what her heart really wants this Christmas.

Emoting?

[VetteRanger · 2/10 · 20 November 2022]

To be honest, this one didn't last on our screen for more than the third scene. The female lead is one of those actors who thinks that emoting requires CONSTANT head wiggling while she delivers lines. Of course, it doesn't sell the dialogue, it only distracts from it as the viewer becomes increasingly fascinated with whether the next random wiggle will be the one which makes her so dizzy she topples over.

Her ultra-irritating little girl voice didn't help.

Then the second actress came on and damned if she didn't have the same poor style, though her voice WAS irritating too, at least it wasn't as bad as the lead. However, she added pouty to every line. Yuck.

We have no intention of suffering through all that for the entire movie.

Ridiculous

[pamelatasker · 1/10 · 26 November 2020]

Would love to review this film but because the music was SO loud could not hear most of it, if any film makers ever read these reviews please please think of people with hearing problems. Apart from that the acting was not that brilliant, Seen this story more then once in loads of films, in fact ended up turning it off because of the Loud music missed most of it,

Waste of Time

[hhutton-25800-97724 · 1/10 · 22 December 2022]

Can't even begin to say how much I hated this movie. Where to start, Female lead, while gorgeous, proves that beauty is skin deep. Her character proves that ugly goes all the way to the bone. Selfish, self-serving, horrible acting, really dis-likeable. Her acting was not good, way over the top and unbelievable. She is very beautiful. Lead actor was the only redeemable character in the movie. I wish he had had more backbone though (bad writing /directing). I wanted him to bow up and say enough is enough, before that point in the movie came. "Grant" embodies all the horrible, self-serving attributes, along with Ashley, that hurts so many people in real life. Movies like these really make me angry. And I don't need to mention the always overbearing music that so many of these movies have.

Love these sorts of movies

[deedeeanderson · 10/10 · 30 June 2021]

Lots of cute guys and christmas! Fun to watch around christmas.

Thank God for the hot guy at least.

[adamjohns-42575 · 2/10 · 6 January 2021]

I had to watch this film to the end, because I couldn't believe that Liam (Colton Little) would ever want to spend the rest of his life with the lead female, I was hoping he would tell her where to go instead. He was way out of her league and far too nice for her. I'm not sure I would have been happy with him ending up with any of the rest of the cast to be honest, even the "Other guy" Grant, who was a bit wet, although I think that might have been at least a slightly better ending. They were a bit gay, so it could have been believable if it had turned out that they'd been messaging each other for ages and that's why the other relationships weren't working. Something to think about for next year Hallmark/Lifetime?

Both of the lead females were just so awful and airhead like. The blonde had a terrible voice and the other, Bella I think she was called, was just wrapped up in Selfie/Follower culture which I absolutely hate and it somehow always seems to come across as even more loathsome in films like these.

The sound was so bad that any time there was music, the vocal track was lost and the girls voices were so screechy at times that you couldn't work out what the were saying anyway. Thank the Lord for subtitles.

Even the great Trevor Eve was Cheesey and the films plot in general was silly. I know I've probably marked other films with a similar plot a lot higher, but the production values were just so low on this one that the terrible story idea was really obvious.

If I come across this film again next year, I will know to turn it off as soon as I can. Colton Little will have to be searched out and watched in other productions, because I'm afraid even he couldn't bring me to watch this twice.

This really is bad

[Jackbv123 · 2/10 · 28 June 2021]

Start with the premise of the best friend who really should be the boyfriend. Ashley really goes over the top in taking advantage of Liam. I can see why other reviewers are saying they don't want Ashley to get together with anyone.

Usually, in best friend romance movies there is a natural chemistry between the best friends, but it wasn't really there in this movie. Colton Little really didn't seem comfortable with Parhiala even before they started faking their romantic relationship.

The two women do nothing to flatter the fairer sex. Ashley is obviously competent, but she's irrational about Grant from start to finish and her antics are embarrassing. Bella is the stereotype of a social media diva.

None of the main actors seem natural in delivery of their lines. Maybe it's the inane dialogue. There's an emotional scene toward the end where both women actors seem to think that just raising their voices an octave is sufficient to portray emotion, especially Parhiala.

I usually don't agree with complaints about sound track volume. I rarely have a real problem with it despite complaints, but this sound track was distracting.

There was a couples dance scene and none of the main actors could dance decently. It almost looked like when the scene was shot, the actors were hearing different music or no music. They definitely weren't able to dance and deliver lines at the same time.

There's a scene with Bella eating where she was channeling Meg Ryan (Harry Met Sally).

There really is no story other than the competition/jealousy angle. Combine that with no acting and no dialogue and you have a perfect movie.

Strangely, the last quarter or so of the movie goes from horrible to simply mediocre or perhaps even fair.. The acting is less bad. The dialogue at least makes some sense, and the story ending isn't bad even though it is predictable.

Yeah, this was pretty bad

[mbiv777 · 2/10 · 2 December 2022]

At about the half hour mark, the lead actress, wearing a very short, form-fitting red dress, comes bounding down the stairs and across the living room.

I only mention this because that was the one moment in this movie that was somewhat worth watching.

I know that's a lousy thing to say, but this was a lousy movie.

The plot involves a girl who thinks she's getting back with her old high school boyfriend (the ham actor from the Liberty Mutual commercials),when she is suddenly introduced to his girlfriend. In her humiliation, she decides to try to pass off her best buddy as her boyfriend. Oy.

A few years ago, I reviewed a movie called My Christmas Love, and said it would be hard to imagine a more irritating woman than the lead actress.

Found her.

Fake and horrible

[avandenheuvel · 1/10 · 17 December 2022]

The acting was over the top, the only decent actor was playing the "best friend/boyfriend" Liam.

He could maybe would have been better if the story was written better. The rest of the 3 lead actors in the story just sucked as actors too.

I do not mind watching B movies, most of them are enjoyable. But this was horribel!

The story writting really sucked.

Nobody in their right mind would have been forgiving Ashley (the lead role) for what she did. She went wayyy to over the top. The story was ment to be romantic but this was not romantic at all. It was sickening!

Horrible!! Not worth anybody's time.

Childish!!

[Marynewcomb2013 · 1/10 · 14 November 2022]

This is listed as a brand new movie on GAC Family for 2022, but we clearly see it's not!! Let's start this review. The lead actress & the co star actress that's married to the leads crush are both CHILDISH!! They were awful with their acting abilities & how they presented the characters!! I literally thought I was watching a tween movie instead of a family Christmas movie!! Where did they dig up these two? The rest of the cast actually has acting ability!! The one guy looks like the guy from the liberty commercial with the actor that can't act! The story for this film was decent but still tweenish!! Wanting to break up the married couple for her own selfish reasons!! Hard pass on this!!

Totally Gen Z movie

[jk-692-236394 · 2/10 · 8 January 2023]

OMG-this is so Gen Z obnoxious. Breanne Hill is nicknamed "ladybug", gag me, and talks in a fake breathy whisper. She is trying to win back her high school BF. Who is a big zero if you ask me. The other main female is an "influencer". That whole thing needs to die in this life and soon. This entire influencer/tik tok life is so shallow and not story worthy. Yet I notice so many of this churn em and burn em holiday movies have incorporated them into the plots.

The acting is like low level soap opera for the young characters. The older actors are good. But what the heck is Trevor Eve doing in this movie? A British serious actor, from the UK in a cheesy movie shot in California? That was strange. If you are a Gen Z maybe this movie is for you.

Bleck

[kholton-26722 · 2/10 · 26 December 2022]

Masiela Lusha playing Bella as the female lead was one of the most annoying characters I have ever watched in a movie. Her squeaky little girl voice got more and more grating as the movie progressed. Her character was so shallow and irritating. She never seemed to improve as the story went on and on. The other "actors" weren't much better! There simply was actually nothing entertaining or heartwarming about this movie. Well...maybe the scenery was nice, as the lodge setting was quaint and lovely. Such a typical and predictable ending. I can't even figure out why I watched the whole thing except maybe thinking it'd have to get better. Don't waste your time on this one.

It's a shame

[hypzrkunt · 3/10 · 15 November 2022]

This movie had newer actors and was fine at the beginning. Th3 lead female played the part early well. The issue was when she had to shoe real emotion it was a struggle. The storlinewhile predictable faded atth3 end. The lead guy should have been chased afterwards versus giving up after the female lead played the predictable stunt. Her regret was even disingenuous. The r3morse as you were saying your wrong and still preceding ahead was a joke. Worst part was there was never any real fake chemistry with the ex. The 2nd female was way to incompetent to b an influencer.

Liam was better than grant but that's not saying much. Liam actually was okay but more outrage than wet noodle would be better.

Favorite character the female leads mom followed by her sister.

Stop rushing these movies out. Make better decisions on the director and leads. The beauty of Christmas movies is to find the ones you will watch over and over. We may not find another's it's wonderful life but we can get something more like lower far3 Christmas in Homestead o4 Christmas on my mind or Finding Christmas which I will,watch 2-3times a year versus once or twice in my lifetime.

Needed less scheming to get ex back & more romance btw the best friends...

[lymullen · 4/10 · 25 November 2023]

Very rarely do I rate one of these Christmacy/Hallmarkish made for TV rom coms below a 5, but this one was bad.

Now I can actually enjoy a movie where the heroine has more chemistry with the guy she does not end up with. Angrily Ever After is an example. But with this heroine, I didn't like her with either guy. She had more romantic moments with the ex she was trying to get back, but they fell flat to me because of the way she was treating his girlfriend. Grant, I think his name was, was in a committed relationship with Bella. Ashely, our heroine, smiled up in Bella's face, pretended to be her friend while undermining her to get close to Grant the whole time. This was not cute in the least.

So we get ice skating, long intimate walks etc with Ashley and Grant as Ashely tries her best to reconnect with him. Yet no romance at all with Ashley and Liam. Liam really was the best friend, and their interactions were platonic while Ashley chased Grant.

I only watched to the end to see Ashley apologize to everyone. I could not root for a HEA btw Ashley and Liam, as he deserved so MUCH better.

Such bad acting you'd think it was a parody

[econeill-66824 · 1/10 · 26 November 2023]

You always have to suspend your disbelief a little for these cheesy Christmas movies (that's part of the fun after all, and no one expect Oscar performances but 3 of the 4 main characters were insufferable. The main character has this weird breathy little girl voice that has to be put on, then you've got the idiot ex bf from high school she is still obsessed with ( kinda strange) and his weird "social influencer" girlfriend. She is pushing 40 in real life and the whole vapid, ditzy material girl act is just really laughable and not plausible. The only saving grace is hot Liam and the pretty Christmas backgrounds.