The Naughty List (alternatively titled a Date By Christmas Eve) is essentially your standard "magic wishes with good intentions gone wrong" movie. If you're a fan of made of TV Christmas movies, you're familiar with the premise
Chelsea, the main character, is working to develop and market a new dating app (Naughty or Nice). Mrs Clause, thought to be an actor hired by the marketing company but actually the real deal, enchants the app which allows Chelsea to make wishes to put her friends and rivals on the naughty or nice list and change their personalities accordingly
Along the way, her app idea and job promotion are stolen from her, she gets dumped, she ignores the obvious crush her best friend Fisher has on her and gets annoyed with her clingy best friend Keegan. She makes wishes to fix all of this stuff and it backfires as expected. She then has to learn the real meaning of Christmas and make things right.
Lifetime has, in recent years, adopted the Hallmark formula for Christmas movies - putting out dozens of cookie cutter and predictable but enjoyable romantic comedies. As with Hallmark, and now GAC, the movies are a mixed bag. Some are truly great, some truly awful, most in between. If you're a fan of the genre, this movie will probably be "in between" although perhaps closer to the bottom of your list depending on how much the core premise interests you.
The two leads do a good job and keep the movie afloat with their solid performances and good chemistry. Nothing else in the movie stands out as especially good, although there isn't much especially bad stuff here either.
I'm not a huge fan of "magical" hallmark/lifetime movies, the supernatural element always comes off as especially corny and cliche so this one isn't one I would rewatch but it's a perfectly mediocre entry into the genre . There are a number of much better Lifetime movies in the recent years though
5/10.
Chelsea, the main character, is working to develop and market a new dating app (Naughty or Nice). Mrs Clause, thought to be an actor hired by the marketing company but actually the real deal, enchants the app which allows Chelsea to make wishes to put her friends and rivals on the naughty or nice list and change their personalities accordingly
Along the way, her app idea and job promotion are stolen from her, she gets dumped, she ignores the obvious crush her best friend Fisher has on her and gets annoyed with her clingy best friend Keegan. She makes wishes to fix all of this stuff and it backfires as expected. She then has to learn the real meaning of Christmas and make things right.
Lifetime has, in recent years, adopted the Hallmark formula for Christmas movies - putting out dozens of cookie cutter and predictable but enjoyable romantic comedies. As with Hallmark, and now GAC, the movies are a mixed bag. Some are truly great, some truly awful, most in between. If you're a fan of the genre, this movie will probably be "in between" although perhaps closer to the bottom of your list depending on how much the core premise interests you.
The two leads do a good job and keep the movie afloat with their solid performances and good chemistry. Nothing else in the movie stands out as especially good, although there isn't much especially bad stuff here either.
I'm not a huge fan of "magical" hallmark/lifetime movies, the supernatural element always comes off as especially corny and cliche so this one isn't one I would rewatch but it's a perfectly mediocre entry into the genre . There are a number of much better Lifetime movies in the recent years though
5/10.