Let's start with the plot - or can we even call it a plot? It's just a succession of all the Christmas romcom cliches you can think of, tied together with some terrible editing and bizarre green screens. My main problem was the heroine's CONSTANT smokey-eye - how are you meant to have a climactic ball scene, when she's been wearing a full face of make-up the whole time?? 80% of the film she wears the same expression of unpleasant concern, similar to my expression while watching the film. The set-up for the story is unrealistic and unoriginal, and we are expected to believe that two characters with practically no screen time together "fall in love" after 5 days of being vaguely near each other. All character development is rushed, and was abandoned whenever the plot needed someone to do something. There was a random sleigh in the corner of the castle's courtyard, which was shown multiple times, as if it had a purpose, but the screenwriters clearly forgot about it partway through - perhaps they couldn't find yet another trope for it to tie in with. At least we could find some amusement in its debasement!
Review of Crown for Christmas
