This movie should have a Sequel to see what kind of family they would have
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tredoe16 November 2020
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Typical christmas movie new girl at school bullied by the spoilt brat who mends her ways and comes good. how these films think they can pass off two 30 year old girls as 16 year olds I don't understand though
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Christmas-Reviewer11 February 2018Review Date 2/11/2018
PLEASE BEWARE OF SOME REVIEWERS THAT ONLY HAVE ONLY ONE REVIEW. I HAVE OVER 400 REVIEWS OF "CHRISTMAS RELATED FILMS & SPECIALS" WHEN ITS A POSITIVE THERE IS A GOOD CHANCE THEY WERE INVOLVED WITH THE PRODUCTION. NOW I HAVE NO AGENDA! I REVIEW MOVIES & SPECIALS AS A WAY TO KEEP TRACK OF WHAT I HAVE SEEN! I HAVE DISCOVERED MANY GEMS IN MY QUEST TO SEE AS MANY " C H R I S T M A S " MOVIES AS I CAN.
Now Someone keeps reporting my reviews. I guess they are jealous because I do tell the truth. I want to point out that I never make snide remarks about actors weight or real life sexual orientation. If there acting is terrible or limited "I talk about that". If a story is bad "I will mention that" So why am I being "picked on"? IMDB? When one of my reviews gets deleted IMDB will not even tell me what someone found offensive. Well on to this review.
This film is about people being "solo". New girl at school trying to fit in. There is the ice queen of the school who feels she is on her own after her mother ran out on her & her dad. Then there is the two "Single Parents" trying to figure everything. Being "Solo" at Christmas isn't easy for various reasons.
Now when the single parents stumble into the possibility of love for Christmas, they discover that their daughters are embroiled in a nasty rivalry at school. When the rivalry gets out of control, everyone comes clean about where they are in life. Most of all nobody is criticized for "Sharing Their Feelings".
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bojojoti-971-1301314 February 2021I enjoyed the line "Boyfriend for Christmas," which refers to one of Kelli Williams' earlier Christmas movies which I generally watch each year. Kelli has graduated from child to parent in this movie that deals with bullying and forgiveness. I appreciated how the film showed parents can often exacerbate a bad situation among teens, but, also, they can be instrumental in healing them. As the movie was a feel-good holiday flick, it ends happily. Wish it were so simple in real life.
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RebeccaKeys8418 June 2020This movie would've been so much better without the Melissa character. Angry teenager or not, she was beyond ridiculous.
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Prismark1018 December 2018Christmas Solo has two stories in one.
Jennifer is a vet who has moved to a small town with her teenage daughter Charlotte from San Francisco. Jennifer ends up tussling with Nate over some fancy Christmas decorations the only ones left in the store as no one in these small towns has heard of ebay or Amazon.
However both find romance with each other but there is a fly in the ointment. Nate also has a teenage daughter Melissa and she is not happy that Charlotte has nabbed the solo at the school Christmas concert.
Melissa has turned mean girl on Charlotte including having her house daubed with graffiti.
This is a nice enough Christmas film, maybe it needed a few more better songs but the ending was a little bit too sweet and convenient. Obviously the police in these small towns are not too hot on pursuing people for criminal damage to private property. -
aussiesurfnsun5 November 2023What can I say; this was a solidly good movie with wholesome Hallmark vibes and cute quirky characters. I chose this movie because I love movies with singing in them (including musicals) and this was very centered around that so overall I enjoyed it.
I'm not sure I would watch it again though. I absolutely adored the two single parents and their banter. They were both very cute and had great chemistry.
The two younger girls playing the teens fighting over the solo, I'm not as sure about. The main girl who plays Charlotte is annoying af and her voice is really not as good as the other girl's. I am super confused as to why the choir teacher would choose her over MJ other than she is a buxom blonde type kinda.
It sort of actually suspended disbelief if I'm being honest when I heard their two voices and compared. I don't think anyone in real life would agree with the choir teacher and her decision...it makes me wonder what the casting/musical ppl were thinking...
Singing talents aside though it was a cute movie that I would recommend to anyone looking for musical christmas films to add to their list. -
niepodam-4513330 December 2022The credits section at the beginning looked like the tacky flower pictures my 70yo mom posts on Facebook. I didn't expect much after that - but the movie managed to surprise me im a good way.
You can clearly see it had low budget. It looks like a reality TV episode. Not enough extras on the set. And some od the acting is beyond cheesy (the scene where MJ sneaks up to Charlotte...).
MJ character acts like she is 5. And then from angsty teen she just jumps to being the sweet girl in one scene with mandatory makeup style change to indicate she's a good one now. The parents fall for each other a bit too quickly for credibility. And all the usual romcom BS.
The plot is mostly predictable as hell, but it's a Christmas romcom, it's enough if it entertains me. And it did.
The final song scene is too perfect for an unrehersed performance, but OK, for this kind of movie let's roll with it.
The other thing is that for comedy it is not funny at all. What made me laugh at the end was that the song they played on end credits was not long enough for them to end, so instead of playing another song there was just dead silence. -
artbreyfogle24 December 2020Tinkling background music...your Christmas season flick 2 101...fake snow as sun shines in back of the scenes... Another wonderful holiday adventure...NOT!!!
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Jackbv12327 November 2018My original review: This movie has elements in common with a few other Christmas movies revolving around a rivalry and a romance, but it goes deeper than the others I can think of. I'm glad to see the writers didn't try to check off every possible Christmas tradition to fill screen time, but instead stayed focused on the issues related to the theme of the movie.
This movie makes it clear fairly quickly that the "villain" is anything but and that she too is a person in need. At the same time it deals with bullying of a new student, although it doesn't offer any overly simplistic solutions.
Like so many Christmas movies, it wraps up too many things a little too neatly, and uses an unbelievably courageous teen to help it along, but what else would we expect? Still it is an UPlifting movie with excellent family values.
Addendum added about 18 months later: I just watched a movie that gave me an aha moment regarding bullying. It made me think back to this one and I had to watch it again, I realize it does offer one possibility as a defense for bullying. The girl's defense is her very deep rooted belief in who she is and her values. This allows her to not only say no to despair, but to go beyond what society expects to love her neighbor even when that neighbor was acting like an enemy. And she couldn't have done that without loving support of her mother and some faithful friends.
The actions of Charlotte display the true meaning of Christmas that goes closer to the real reason for the season than almost any TV dares to go now a days. It's more than just being with family. It IS about new beginnings and a kind of new birth that come from forgiveness that was made possible by the one whom we celebrate. Joy to the World. -
darthsteele-3933825 November 2020This movie had potential but is ruined by a couple different elements; most notably is that it feels like nothing more than an after-school special with a sappy Christmas theme. Second is the ending. Our angsty antagonist a true blue bully by all definitions suffers no consequences to her behavior! I cynically feel like she manipulates her way into getting exactly what she wants in the end.
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gianmarcoronconi8 May 2023Christmas movie that blends the very classic Christmas movie themes with the classic teen drama themes and does this stuff in a bad way, creating a very boring and very banal film that bores you for its entire duration in a terrible and terrible way. The plot is about two singles with one daughter each who want to get together and the two daughters hate each other because one is unnaturally bad and the other is unnaturally good. Therefore trivial and very badly structured film with a plot that drags on with a terrible effort for its entire duration. In conclusion this film is an unwatchable and meaningless waste of time.
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whazzupskippy22 June 2022Just another example of the lie of toxic masculinity perpetuated by the brain dead woke mob. Toxic femininity is worse but, of course, is covered up by these idiots.
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asuttle-2015019 December 2020One of the main character seems to be very spoiled, lashing out for attention and faces zero consequences for it including the good girl /clearly better singer can't handle the terrible women's abuse and manipulation so gives her the solo after winning it fair and square and the parents find love
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Christmas Solo is a delicacy amidst a sea of "Christmas cookie cutter" movies. There are no "weak" elements of the movie. Acting, wardrobe, everything is good. The chemistry between the parents is amazing. This isn't a typical romance movie and yet they are so good that they "sell it" anyway. Every scene with them together is believable and not under-acted nor over-acted. It is "just right". This will seem a bit random, but whoever was on hair did an incredible job. Jennifer's (Kelly William's) hair always looks AMAZING. In many Christmas movies, there is some kind of pain that the main character(s) is having to overcome from the past. However, it feels more like just "backstory". Here, the pain of well...all of the four character's pasts is very much real and in the story. Great storytelling, great story. Nicely written too. I highly recommend this movie.
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hcurrie772 December 2022Why do so called actors have to do the weird uh oh umm sorry oh um crap every time they speak to men. It is so unrealistic lame overused cliche not interesting, funny or cute anymore. For the love of all that is good can you make a cheap stupid movie that is literally not exactly the same as the other billion movies.
I will have to say the mean girl almost was original being a psycho ex friend???? At least it was different.
Lastly for the love of all that is holy stop trying to make Christmas songs sexy. Everything is not and doesn't need to be sexy. Ugh. Really pushed the boundaries with a child trying to be sexy singing silent night. -
michaelt-414152 January 2021Please Ignore all negative reviews about this film. Here we have a single dad and single mum with daughters who are rivals at school.
We have a mum and a dad who date, but she splits up with him due to the antics of his daughter.
The ending is wonderful, and it would be so nice if all kids got on so well.
A lovely film well worth 10 stars. -
CrownedUno16 July 2021I liked the movie, just wondered why they changed the words to "Joy to the World" at the end of the movie?
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missgjerde12 November 2020I love the dual storylines for mother and daughter to watch together. And I appreciated the light shed in bullying and grief.
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rebekahrox18 December 2020This one really took me by surprise. For a Christmas movie, it was really different. A lovely and sweet teenager moves to town and gets on the wrong side of a mean girl by winning the Christmas solo that mean girl thought she was entitled to. Meanwhile sweet and lovely girls mother and mean girl's Dad (who is also very nice and very attractive) are falling in love. The mean girl is mean partially because her Mother was cheating on her Dad and left her to be with her boyfriend. This movie was full of tension and the mean girl goes way over the top , ending up vandalizing the girl's house. That brings things to a head. The ending is almost too heartwarming.
The main problems I had with this movie was how quickly and easily the mean girl did a 180. In reality, the girl would have been signed up for years of therapy and a selection of some very powerful drugs. The other thing was the casting of the nice Mom. The actress is 10 years older than the Jonathan Scarfe who played the nice but overwhelmed Dad. And although Kelli Williams is attractive enough, it was not a good match. Ending on a complimentary note, despite the tension and almost horror of the situation, the script was full of witty banter, and had some humor. I also liked that Charlotte, the nice girl, had friends who had her back, and even one of the mean girl's posse repented and went over to the nice girl's side. -
rickhickman24 January 2021This movie had real depth and dealt with real life issues in a realistic way. Kelli Williams is an old pro and both lead characters were believable and had chemistry. Most movies of this type feel like they brought in characters off the street - especially teen actors. This one had a strong supporting cast and is was hard to ignore Ricky He & Kayla Wallace who put in robust performances and should have good careers. I enjoy scripts that offer real humor and this one did so very deftly.
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melissascrow10 December 2020Why in the world would you change the words to the common Christmas carol Joy to the World? It's "Heaven and nature sing" not Heaven and angels sing. Good acting but the writer and editor should have had a pay cut not to catch this obvious mistake.
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There are two stories in this movie, and as a parent of a 20 year old (who is, like the teen characters, totally into music) I was thoroughly engaged by both.
The romance between Williams' and Scarfe's characters is superbly written in five short scenes that deftly go from first meeting to almost first kiss. Aided by the easy-going, conversational charm and chemistry of the leads (plus a deliciously comical cameo by the wickedly funny Lucie Guest) their relationship is one of my all time Hallmark favorites.
That it all goes off he rails because of the dischord created by his daughter's jealousy at being usurped by her daughter's natural vocal talent makes it all the more entertaining,
Strongly recommended.