Review of Christmas She Wrote

I really wanted to like this movie. I love Dylan Neal in the Gourmet Detective series and I often enjoy Danica McKellar's movies. They just didn't have any chemistry. Their characters were very poorly written. She was perky to the point of being sickeningly sweet and his character went from the grouchy budget minded boss to Mr. Sensistivity within the space of about thirty seconds. Scenes that were supposed to be comically sweet just seem contrived and poorly written. They tried to cram as many perky "holiday" moments in as they could. The overall effect was too much frenzied activity and the inevitable glitch that always happens about twenty minutes before the end just seemed thrown in. It all gets fixed very quickly, as usual. Hallmark needs to either produce fewer movies so they can pay more attention to them or they need to hire better writers. Hallmark fans are looking for sentiment but not cheesiness.