Does the film live up to the title? No. 

It's your classic "girl puts scarf on a sexy snowman with abs and it comes to life and the village all believe him and they end up rattling" story. 

Packed to the gills with Mean Girls references and even a mention of A Christmas Prince. Netflix love reminding us of just how much shit they've made.

 Last one of this run, be sure to check out all our other episodes on terrible Christmas films. 

Merry Christmas to you and please never change. 

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 Father Christmas is coming to town. A town in Yorkshire to be precise. 

Do you like bad acting, contrived plots, sarcastic sex scenes, vandalised Christmas trees, and no jokes? Then do I have a film for you!

This one's definitely on the naughty list. A surreal blend of boring and slapstick that appeals to absolutely everyone... that reads the Daily Express. 

The moral we take from all this is that, no matter how terrible your script, Kelsey Grammar can still weave his magic. 

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You better watch out, you better not cry, you better not pout I'm telling you why... Holidate is awful. Just bloody awful. 

We're up to our old tricks reviewing terrible Christmas films and I'm ashamed to say, we picked this one. It's crass, it's not funny, it's boring, the characters are horrible, there's no chemistry, it's all in a bloody shopping mall. 
Bon appetite! 

Oh and excuse the weird non sequitur about "lady buffets".

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 Merry Christmas everyone (you can't even say that any more apparently my dad told me) and welcome back to the Book of Noel: our crazy adventure into Christmas's darkest stocking. 

Today, we clearly haven't learnt our lesson and are talking about the sequel to a film we all hated and we hate this one slightly less, but that means it works less as a piece of entertainment. 

Given there's so little to talk about here, we end up deciding which of the Mean Girls characters is most likely to soil themselves. 

Silent niiiiiight.... 

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The final one of 2023 and it's a doozy. The Princess Switch is a cinnamon sprinkled malarial dream and no mistake. It takes all the best bits of Trading Places and Comedy of Errors and completely ignores them. It glorifies all monarchies like all of these f***ing things do, and reminds us all that all you need to do to find the one, is to start proceedings with knockabout deceit. 

Hudgens is good company, though. 

Merry Christmas 

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That's better! Proper Hallmark nonsense. Never before has a movie had lower stakes. It's your classic boy meets girl, boy gets girls... that's it. Set in smalltown USA, we felt absolutely back home here after the car crash that was Christmas on Mistletoe Farm.

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 Prepare yourselves... For something so foul it sends zombies back into the ground, vampires back to their coffins, and Frankensteins back to their labs. This. Is. Mistletoe. Farm. Easily the worst film we've ever reviewed/seen. Seriously, we dare you... we DARE you to watch this abomination. It ruined films for the both of us and now we only watch flick books and them zoetrope things at the Media Museum in Bradford. We thing it might be a bit like the ring in that we're gonna get done in by a lass from out of a telly if you don't watch it and pass on the curse. Awful, awful business. 

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This film is great. Yeah, we're shocked too. The world's best handsome writer has a mum that's dead now and meets a lady who's mum isn't dead but it feels like it. They fall in love and its genuinely touching. 

Join two men gushing over a Hallmark romcom. 

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 Netflix describes this movie as "feel good". Don't believe them as you won't feel ANYTHING. A Christmas Chronicle was the vanguard of the Netflix Christmas vehicle that spawned two sequels. TWO! It's trash. If you like Kurt Russell so much you'll watch anything with him in it; even Escape from LA, even Deathproof, even Crypto... Id' still recommend you stay away from this. It's a lot of things, but most of all it's boring. Conal and Joe do share their favourite Christmas presents ever though. That's a good bit. 

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It's Christmas time, that means it's time to delve into the Netflix Christmas Universe and this time we've gone for the big one: A Christmas Prince. 

Do you like vague European monarchies? Have you ever posed as a personal tutor to get a scoop for a magazine? Have you never heard of Aldovia either? If the answer to any of those questions is "yes", this could be the video for you.

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