Count me as a girl who enjoys these Hallmark movies. They are what Lifetime was before it became the man-bashing/sort of sleazy channel is currently is. Anyway, I was very excited to see this movie's preview bc I like Lacey, I recognized Ryan as the kid from that movie w/Michelle Pfeiffer, and we're all around the same age (26-28). Aside from that, the story looked interesting enough and sometimes you just need an easy movie to watch w/a pizza and beverage.
Anyway, I found the story to be easy to believe in terms of development. My criticism of two of Hallmark's other recent movies (Flower Girl and Wishing Well) was that the bond btwn the two leads wasn't well developed. But that's not the case in Elevator Girl. They meet in the elevator, the secretary initiates the second meeting,and then they take off from there. It was obvious that they had been dating at least a month. So that's good.
Liked how Rosemary did everything she could to hook them up after she saw how into Libby Jonathan was. That was a nice play on the fairy godmother w/o making it a fantasy tale. It was a great move not making the "big blonde" really the other woman like we're so used to seeing. Usually the blonde is a b---- and although Cynthia made one not so nice comment re: Libby, it wasn't the standard vicious "I'm better than you." I also liked how Libby, the free-spirit of the movie, at the end made the decision to combine all her talents together. A lot of times w/these movies, it's the free-spirit who's ALWAYS right and the more anal retentive person always has to change. That usually bugs me bc sometimes the free-spirits ARE all over the map (Libby was) and that's not always a good characteristic.
The only thing I didn't like was the cheesy music at the very end when everything was in slow motion. The two leads were young, so they could've chosen a better song.
Well done. I give it a B