Prince of some made-up European country escapes to snowy American town (anonymously, of course) to have a Christmas without tradition and formality. Meets woman on a mission. Rest is par for the course.
It's the really bad English accents that grate. The valet, Arthur, who hot foots it over to America, has an even worse English accent than Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins - it's like listening to nails down a blackboard. I would have expected better from Teryl Rothery but sadly her attempt at Received Pronunciation is also under-trained.
There's enough English actors out there - even in North America - so please just use them!
The set decorators, music, lighting and locations - plus the parts of the father and the librarian (both fighting against a poor script) - deserve far more stars, but the two leads are so mismatched that even they don't look like they're enjoying it, so 1 star it is.
And don't get me started with what happens at the end of the movie in the middle of the road. Good grief.
It's the really bad English accents that grate. The valet, Arthur, who hot foots it over to America, has an even worse English accent than Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins - it's like listening to nails down a blackboard. I would have expected better from Teryl Rothery but sadly her attempt at Received Pronunciation is also under-trained.
There's enough English actors out there - even in North America - so please just use them!
The set decorators, music, lighting and locations - plus the parts of the father and the librarian (both fighting against a poor script) - deserve far more stars, but the two leads are so mismatched that even they don't look like they're enjoying it, so 1 star it is.
And don't get me started with what happens at the end of the movie in the middle of the road. Good grief.