Dashing Home for Christmas (2020 TV Movie)
5/10
Another movie about travel home problems
23 November 2020
Warning: Spoilers
Every year has a few more of these travel problem movies and they all are pretty similar. Many of the problems are the common ones, like weather, and many are a little out there. Emily loses her ID and credit cards in the first airport at security so after that she should have been dead in the water. Simon bails her out time again.

Emily has a bit of an attitude, but she also gets treated pretty rudely several times. Seems like none of the businesses or authorities have any desire to help a traveler who literally has no recourse, at least in this movie. For me, this went on long enough that it soured me on the movie through the first third or so and took a while to regain any positivity.

Paniz Zade and Adrian Spencer were in virtually every scene together after they met. A combination of Emily's arrogance and their mutual awkwardness made it take a while to build up any positive chemistry.

Emily's sister brings up all the usual teasing common in these movies like "is he handsome; send me a picture". Numerous strangers they meet at various places do the usual "such a lovely couple" type comments.

I think there were many attempts at humor but I don't think I even smiled at any of them. As I mentioned earlier, Emily kept encountering obstacles most of which came from rude customer service people and that just isn't funny to me no matter how you do it.

All these movies need a conflict to set up the climax and this one came out of nowhere and seemed a bit strange.

I think anyone viewing this who gets the humor better than I did might enjoy this movie quite a bit.
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