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Merry Happy Whatever: Ring in the New Year (2019)
i am so sorry to all my readers!!
MovieMom1973 here!! Okay!! I have to just say that i am so sorry to everyone i offended!! I have spoken to my family and apparently some people were bothered by how much #MOMMYJUICE!! I was drinking and i am just so sorry if i made anyone uncomfortable!! But please don't worry because my family is going to send me to a nice spa to help me be less focused on #MOMMYJUICE!! And Hallmark and christmas!! So do not worry!! Because after i have been able to relax for a little bit and hopefully get a nice #MASSAGE!! I will be back to share more movies and shows with you!!
Also this episode was really amazing and i can't recommend it enough!! Okay!! MovieMom1973 signing off for now!!
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Merry Happy Whatever: Christmas Break (2019)
more than one tooth is teeth!!
MovieMom1973 here!! Yes!! So tonight my husband, my two daughters and i sat down to finish our new favorite Hallmark show Merry Happy Whatever on new year's eve which is perfect because it looks like these two episodes are going to cover new year's eve and new year's day!! #happycoincidence unfortunately we had to delay our start just a little bit because my husband accidentally put my #MOMMYJUICE!! In the wrong place so it took me a while to find it but fortunately i did!! #hideandseekchampion!!
So in this episode Emmy is upset about Dennis Quaid not liking Matt and Dennis Quaid is nervous about his date with Nurse Nancy and Patsy and Todd are still having a baby!! #busynewyear
it turns out that Matt is staying with Sean and Joy and he is helping take care of their kids which is sweet but then Joy says that her baby is legally Matt's now that she cries after Matt tries to hand her back to Joy and i just don't think that is legal at all!! Does anyone know for sure?? Let me know in the comments below!! It would be very sad if a parent could legally lose custody of their child over something like that although you do want to make sure you know how to stop your child from crying too!! #parentsarethetissuesoflife
Sean is about to go on a job interview but Joy tells him he doesn't have to go because she is sleepy and wants him to be happy!!
Emmy has a job interview that goes well but she is upset because Dennis Quaid had something to do with it!!
Then Matt is helping Todd and Patsy paint the room for the baby they will have and Todd and Patsy are upset because of not knowing what religion to raise their baby with and then they also get upset about the color of the paint in the room!! #twoargumentsistoomany
the family gathers at Patsy and Todd's house for a dinner party and we noticed that there is a tooth shaped plant pot in their house which was very cute!! Also there was a miniature eiffel tower!! But we didn't see any golf balls which was very sad!! But then in a later scene we saw another tooth shaped plant pot and if you have more than one tooth then you have teeth!! #realbiologytalk
then at the bar the power goes out so karaoke night is cancelled but Matt tells the owner that he'll play a song and we were all really excited to hear him play and sing but then the scene changed to Dennis Quaid and Nurse Nancy somewhere else!! It's not that i don't love Dennis Quaid and Nurse Nancy but i really wanted to hear Matt play and sing!! But after another quick scene change to Patsy and Todd's house again we go back to the bar and get to hear Matt play and sing!! I was so happy that i jumped up and did Dennis Quaid's cheer dance clap thing!! Unfortunately when i did the arm flappy part i spilled my #MOMMYJUICE!! Everywhere!! So i asked if we could rewind to the start of the song so my husband did and then i asked if we could rewind again so my husband did and then i asked if we could rewind again because now i knew the words and wanted to sing along but my husband didn't want to!! #nofun!!
Okay!! We are going to go on to the last episode now i can hear my family talking in the next room right now and i am sure it is about how excited they are that we are going to see the end of this amazing show!! MovieMom1973 signing out for now!!
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Merry Happy Whatever: Merry Ex-Mas (2019)
house 1225 on Hallmark street in familyhood!!
MovieMom1973 here!! So of course we kept watching the show because this is the episode that happens on christmas and it is christmas today in real life!! #happycoincidence #familyfirst #christmasalsofirst #Hallmarkforever #Emmatforlife!! #pleasemoregolfballs #engravedcorkscrew #noscorpions #newchristmastradition #whatisthatcookejar?? #hashtag #MOMMYJUICE!!
So in this episode Grandpa Jack is going to come visit!! And Dennis Quaid doesn't seem very excited about it!! And that is shocking because we have learned that Dennis Quaid really values family in his family!! My husband and i immediately paused the episode and had a long talk with out daughters about how family should always be welcome on christmas but not scorpions!! Then my sister in law rolled her eyes!! And i accidentally spilled some MOMMYJUICE!! So i had to go get more and when i came back my sister in law and my husband were whispering about something so i asked them what and they said we should keep playing the show so i said okay and we did!! #hooray!!
Dennis Quaid runs into Nurse Nancy outside his house and we noticed something we hadn't noticed before which is that the house number is 1225 and if you think about it that is like the date of christmas which is the twenty fifth day of the twelfth month and what a happy coincidence that is!! I wish my house number was 1225!! It could be like christmas every day!! And as long as i am wishing then i wish i lived on Hallmark street!! And maybe the neighborhood could be called familyhood!! #nextyear'schristmaswishlist
Nurse Nancy leaves after Dennis Quaid is acting like they are dating when they are not yet dating and that made me sad because of course i want them to be happy together!! Also Matt is anxious because he isn't sure about proposing to Emmy and so he needs to come up with a different christmas gift for her than the engagement ring so he tries to sing her a song!! I love the idea of a song as a gift because it comes straight from teh heart!!
When Matt sings the song Emmy is not impressed!! And it seems like maybe there will be problems with them which is not good!! But then Alan who is Kayla's husband shows up and they decide to get back together even though Kayla doesn't like him!! These are complications that should have been figured out before because christmas should not be full of complications!!
At the end of the episode Dennis Quaid is talking to Emmy about her problems and we noticed that there is a second christmas tree in the background!! It is a small christmas tree!! We all had a long discussion about whether or not it is proper to have more than one christmas tree!! I think it is a great idea and in fact i think there should be a christmas tree in every room of the house!! Even if i did not love the rest of this episode i would still rate it a ten because i love the idea of there being more than one christmas tree!!
So anyway this is a great episode in a great show don't pay attention to all of the FAKE reviews saying that it isn't good because it really is!! Okay!! MovieMom1973 signing off for now!!
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Merry Happy Whatever: 'Twas the Night Before the 4th Night of Hanukkah (2019)
please count the rocks!!
MovieMom1973 here!! Today on christmas my husband, my two daughters and i continued watching this amazing Hallmark show and i have to say it is really so much better than last year when we were staying with my sister in law and they were watching some scorpion movie!! This year it was their turn to come to our house and we watched two more episodes of this show and i am sure that they must have loved it because who could not love this show?? It is so sweet!! A lot sweeter than scorpions!!
So in this episode we noticed that there is some kind of statue down by the fireplace!! And it looks like it has the face of a monkey and the big foot of a bigfoot!! And it looks like it is golfing and there is a tiny golf ball which means that it is the twenty fourth golf ball we noticed in the house!! #twogolfballsforeverymonthoftheyear but then we noticed that there is a twenty fifth golf ball on one of the high shelves in the living room and it is fitting that we noticed the twenty fifth golf ball on christmas which is the twenty fifth day of the month!! But it's strange they never seem to talk about golf on the show!!
Then Patsy and Todd come in and announce that she is pregnant!! And Dennis Quaid asks Nurse Nancy about her feet!! And Matt isn't sure about asking Emmy to marry him anymore!! #ohno!! My sister in law said she doesn't think Emmy should marry Matt anyways and i couldn't believe her!! #Emmattforlife!!
Patsy and Todd have a disagreement about the religious traditions they will raise their child with but what is even more stressful is that Kayla asks Emmy to cut her hair!! My husband and i immediately paused the episode and had a long talk with our daughters about how you should always go to a professional and should not cut each other's hair!! Then my sister in law asked if we could just play the episode again!! But i had to get up to get more #MOMMYJUICE!! So we didn't right away but then we did when i came back!!
So Emmy finds out that Matt is thinking about proposing to her when she is in the bathroom with Kayla and we noticed that there is a jar full of small rocks in the bathroom!! I tried to count how many rocks there were but my family didn't want to pause the episode again!! Did anyone else count how many rocks?? Let me know in the comments below!!
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Merry Happy Whatever: Happy Mall-idays (2019)
the miracle of christmas!!
MovieMom1973 here!! So my husband, my two teenage daughters and i continued watching this amazing Hallmark show after we finished the last episode and i can tell you that we are all so excited to hopefully see more golf balls!! I got a fresh glass of #MOMMYJUICE!! And my husband said i should slow down but i wasn't even playing the show at higher speed!! Okay!! Time for this episode!!
So first the family has to go to the mall!! I always like malls during holidays because they are really what christmas is all about!! Except for family!! And that is why families should go to the mall together!!
While they are there Kayla has a crush on a barrista and Matt likes legos and Joy gets into a car accident and that's not even all that happens!! But we did not see any more golf balls in the mall which was sad!! #freegolfballs!!
It turns out that Emmy is still uncertain about Matt because of how much he wants to spend on christmas gifts so she tells an old friend that he was one of the beatles!! #verifiable?? Then Dennis Quaid wants to get a present for nurse Nancy and his family is all texting about it and i laughed because sometimes i ask my family what they're texting and they won't tell me!! #relateable
at the end of the episode we learn that Patsy had to go to the doctor to learn that she is going to have a baby!! And that is so exciting and all i can say is that babies are the best gift of the season and also i hope that Patsy doesn't keep the baby name ideas a secret like the #SELFISHPARENTS in the third Christmas Prince movie!! Okay!! MovieMom1973 signing off for now!!
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Merry Happy Whatever: Interference (2019)
cheer dance clap thing!!
MovieMom1973 here!! So my husband, my two teenage daughters and i started watching again after it was so much fun last weekend and we really just couldn't wait any longer!! So of course i went and cracked open my #MOMMYJUICE!! And my husband said "again?" and i said "of course because we only watched the first two episodes last weekend!!" so we all sat down for more christmas and family and #MOMMYJUICE!!
So first it is football day in the Dennis Quaid house and Matt wants to be part of the tradition which is sweet and i started counting the golf balls again in case i missed any before but so far i haven't seen any that i missed!! Then Dennis Quaid comes home with a tree!! I immediately paused the show to have a long conversation with my daughters about how important decorating the tree is but my husband asked if we could just play the show again so i unpaused it!! #backtoourscheduledHALLMARK!!
I love that Dennis Quaid and Sean have their own father son cheer dance clap thing!! But they weren't very careful at the end when they ate their snacks in a way that would probably leave a lot of crumbs on the floor!! That means you have to vacuum later!! #housekeepinghabits
then Kayla was trying to have a conversation with Matt in the hallway except we couldn't hear it very well because i was so happy to see two more golf balls in the hallway that i started squealing!! That's twenty three golf balls in the show so far!! #howmanygolfballsdoyouneedforagameofgolf?? Also then Dennis Quaid wants to leave to go finish watching the game with his work buddies but i think we all knew he was going to see the nurse he has a crush on and lets Sean put the star on the tree even though Patsy was decorating it!!
In the end there is a very good family lesson about how smoking is bad!! It made me so happy to see it included that i got another glass of #MOMMYJUICE!! Okay!! MovieMom1973 signing off for now to go watch the next episode!!
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Merry Happy Whatever: Harmony (2019)
CAROLING WITH THE MOMMYJUICE!!
MovieMom1973 here!! So my husband, my two teenage daughters and i kept watching the Hallmark show Merry Happy Whatever because we loved the first episode so much and this episode was even better than the first!! Lots more #family and #christmas and #MOMMYJUICE!!
So in this episode it turns out that Matt has a chance for a work opportunity but it is at the same time as the family is going to go christmas caroling!! So Matt wants to get Dennis Quaid together with the nurse from the last episode because they are so cute together and i totally agree they should be dating!!
Also my youngest daughter asked why is there a santa soap on the counter and we said why would there not be a santa soap on the counter!! #cleanlinessischristmas
and then it turns out that Sean has lost his job and he has to tell Joy which is not easy but Joy is at least understanding because families support each other!!
And so Matt cancels his gig to go caroling with the family which Dennis Quaid does not like but my husband and i paused the show to have a long conversation with our daughters about how you should always make room to carol with your family even if they don't let you take #MOMMYJUICE!!
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Merry Happy Whatever: Welcome, Matt (2019)
TWENTY ONE GOLF BALLS!!
MovieMom1973 here!! So today my husband, my two teenage daughters and i started watching a new release from Hallmark, the TV show Merry Happy Whatever!! We all loved it so much that i just had to come and tell you all about it!! We're going to watch very episode although not all at once because too much TV at one time is bad for you!! And of course i had my #MOMMYJUICE!! With me the whole time!!
So when the first episode begins, Emmy is bringing Matt home to meet her father Dennis Quaid!! And also the rest of her family because they know what is important which is christmas and family and family being together on christmas!! Dennis Quaid picks them up at the airport in his police car because he is a police car and this makes Matt nervous!! This is understandable because sometimes it can be nerve wracking to meet your significant other's parents for the first time especially if they are authority figures!! My husband was very nervous the first time he met my father who was a librarian!! Then Dennis Quaid puts Matt in the back of his car like a criminal which is like the time my father gave my husband a lecture over a late library book!! #relateable
then they all get back home and they walk inside and there are sixteen golf balls on the wall inside the door and there is also a dog statue by the door and there is another dog statue by the couch and one giant golf ball next to a lamp and then there are four more golf balls on a shelf by the fireplace and twelve spoons on the wall by the doorway to the kitchen that is when Emmy's sister Patsy comes out and greets Emmy and she is so excited which is how sisters should be!! #twentyonegolfballsandtwodogsandtwelvespoons
then Emmy's second sister Kayla and her husband Alan show up when everyone is in the kitchen but we quickly learn that Alan wants a divorce!! My husband and i immediately paused the episode and had a long conversation with our daughters about how family should stick together and if your husband does not like your mom's eggies then that is a red flag!! Also we all cried that Kayla was losing her husband so close to christmas!! But it did help that we all noticed something that looked like a cookie jar in the kitchen and none of us could agree on what it was!! I thought that it was a cookie jar in the shape of a yodeling man but my husband thought that maybe it was a cookie jar and it was shaped like a rabbit with a hat on and my oldest daughter thought it looked like a cookie jar in the shape of a webkinz and my youngest daughter thought it was definitely not a cookie jar and was in the shape of a blob fish!!
Later we go to Sean and Joy's house and Sean is Dennis Quaid's son and Joy is his wife and they have a son who has a conversation with them and it turns out there is another dog statue in their kitchen on the counter!! #threedogs also their kitchen is messy compared to Dennis Quaid's kitchen and that is not good because #acleankitchenisahappykitchen
also Dennis Quaid and Matt try to set up christmas decorations and Dennis Quaid gets hurt and they go to a hospital and it seems like Matt will have to work hard to get Dennis Quaid's approval!! Also my husband is wrong about the cookie jar!! #itisalittleyodelingman!! #MOMMYJUICE!!
Fallen (2016)
Hallmark may have fallen with this movie but i hope they can get back up again!!
MovieMom1973 here!! So tonight my husband, my two teenage daughters and i watched this movie because my younger daughter said that her friend at school had recommended it and told us that it was about angels and going to school so we thought it would be a good movie to watch as a family!! But we were wrong!! It was not such a good movie to watch as a family!! I was so shocked that Hallmark would make something like this when usually they make more appropriate movies and i just have to say that i am really disappointed in them!! #disappointedcustomer
so first there is a bunch of stuff about heaven and angels and it seemed like maybe this was going to be a religious educational movie?? But then it comes to the modern day and our main character lucinda is going to a new school for slightly troubled students and i have to say that at first i thought the school was really great because the administrator who meets lucinda tells her that she can only have ten minutes of phone time a week and i think we can all agree that that would be helpful for a learning environment!! Parents please remember to monitor how long your children spend on their phones because too much phone time = not enough family time and learning time!!
Unfortunately the students at this school do not behave very appropriately!! We turned the movie off about a third of the way through because they were setting fires in the woods and not being safe about it!! My husband and i had a long talk with our daughters about fire safety, and then my husband demonstrated how to properly make one in our fireplace!! But an ember accidentally got on the rug and nearly caught it on fire so now we have to get a new rug!! I also called the mother of my daughter's friend who recommended the movie to tell her about the bad things her daughter was watching but she told me to stop bothering her and hung up on me so she is off the christmas card list!! #badparenting
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My Perfect Romance (2018)
my perfect review!!
MovieMom1973 here!! So today my husband, my two teenage daughters and i watched this movie from Hallmark and we all enjoyed it a lot!! It is the story of two people falling in love after they creating a dating program grocery list eggs, bread, milk, apples, orange juice, butter, corn, celery, apple sauce, apple butter, apple chips, apple scented candles.
So when the movie begins, the main character viv is asleep on her couch and you can tell that her life is a bit of a mess because of it!! Then she gets a call from her sister michelle who is in her kitchen with her husband and her husband got her her favorite pudding!! It reminded me a lot of how whenever i'm feeling sick my husband brings me my favorite cucumber and mayonnaise sandwich which is so sweet!! Also you can tell by how the sisters talk to each other that they have fun with each other but they really love each other!! I started wondering which of my daughters is more like viv and which is more like michelle and it was really hard to decide!! Viv is a redhead and michelle is blonde, but both of my daughters are brunette so hair color was out as a factor!! In the end i decided that my older daughter is more like amber from the christmas prince series and my younger daughter is more like lara jeans from to all the boys i loved always and forever!! #westilllovevivandmichelle
oh and in that conversation it is revealed that viv has made some kind of love algorithm!! That is important to the movie!!
Then the movie shows us a man named wes anderson who is making "eggs a la anderson" for a woman but really it just looks like scrambled eggs with peppers in them!! My husband and i immediately paused the movie and had a long talk with our daughters about how if you are going to name eggs after yourself then you should at least be more creative with how you make them!! Also i noticed that his salt shaker was dangerously low!! I say dangerously because too much salt is bad for your health and we should all be careful not to use too much!! #lowsodiumforthepodium
then it goes to viv's workplace where she has two quirky friends who she discusses dating life with!! This was disappointing to me because you never know if the main woman is going to have two quirky friends or one quirky friend and a straight laced friend!! My husband and i always bet on what it will be and this time i bet that it would be one quirky friend and one straight laced friend which means that i lost the bet!! But don't worry because we only bet on who will hold the door for the other the next time we have to go somewhere we would never bet anything like money because that is a bad example to set for your children!! #practicesafebetting also wes shows up so apparently he is the boss at this company and viv has a long look at him so you think maybe she is attracted to him but you don't know for sure yet!!
So wes wants his company to come up with a new app to make money because his mother is unhappy with how the company is doing and she is played by morgan fairchild!! He thinks viv's app might be a success and wants her to develop it in time for valentine's day!! Then wes' brother ben shows up and wes explains that it is not a dating app but a dating algorithm and none of us really knew the difference!! Do any of you?? Let me know in the comments below!!
To make a long story short eventually viv and wes fall in love!! And get together!! Maybe the sequel will show if they have any kids together!! But i hope that they remember to take their dating profiles down because they are in a relationship together now and shouldn't be giving other people the impression that they are still single!! Okay!! MovieMom1973 signing off for now!!
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To All the Boys: Always and Forever (2021)
to all the movies i loved: Hallmark and forever!!
MovieMom1973 here!! so today my husband, my two teenage daughters and i watched the latest release from Hallmark, to all the boys: always and forever!! it is the story of a teenage girl who is about to go to college and how that is difficult for her!! although there were some things i did not like so much it was overall a very good movie and trust me when i tell you that it is even better when you watch it with your family and #MOMMYJUICE!!
so the first thing you need to know about this movie is that it is really quite sweet!! it begins with our main character on vacation with her family!! her name is lara but everyone calls her lara jeans which is cute even though she doesn't wear very many jeans in the movie!! she is there with her two sisters and her father who is played by 90's pop singer and world class heart throb michael bolton!! as soon as i saw him on screen i immediately started singing when a man loves a woman!! but then my husband said he couldn't hear the movie so i stopped!! #iloveyoumichael!!
lara jeans says that she and her family are in sole korea but i think Hallmark made a mistake with that because my family and i checked our atlas and there are two koreas!! north korea and south korea!! hopefully Hallmark remembers to do their geography homework next time because if there are two koreas then how can they be in the sole korea?? #easilyfixablemistakes
anyway it turns out that lara jeans has a boyfriend back in america!! and his name is peter!! and they are both trying to go to stanford for college!! this was interesting to me because my daughters will soon have to start thinking about where they may want to go to college!! so what do you think?? is stanford a good place for them to consider?? let me know in the comments below!!
when the family got back home peter was waiting for lara jeans which was very nice of him!! also he was wearing blue so since he was wearing blue and she is lara jeans we decided that we would call them #teambluejeans!! unfortunately this does also bring up one problem i do have with the movie but i will get back to that a bit later!! #staytuned!! but one thing i will say now that was also concerning is that michael bolton left lara jeans and peter alone together and that is not an appropriate thing for them at that age!! #inappropriateparenting
later lara jeans learns that she has not been accepted to stanford!! but she accidentally texts peter that she did!! so peter shows up at her house in the middle of the night to congratulate her on turning into a bird then takes her out for pancakes!! #reallifecomplications
then lara jeans is getting ready to go on a school trip and one of her friends tells her that she and peter should use a lot of sauce on a brisket that they are cooking!! my husband and i immediately paused the movie and had a long talk with our daughters about how you need to be careful not to use too much sauce on your food because you can cover up its natural flavors!! #lessismore also her friend is wearing a top that exposes her midriff when they go on the trip and that is not appropriate for high school!! i didn't think that schools allowed that and it is concerning to think that they do!! fortunately i have a standing appointment with the vice principal of my daughters' school so i will be sure to ask about it next week!!
the school trip is to new york and lara jeans has already been accepted to a school close to stanford but when she gets to new york she really feels like maybe that is where she wants to go instead!! then she goes to a party and steals a couch with a bunch of other girls!! i was disappointed that Hallmark would show high schoolers stealing because it is not appropriate behavior!! #returnthecouch!!
also i really have to say something now!! remember when i said earlier i would talk about something else concerning?? well it is that the movie uses the colors blue and yellow so much and that is not okay because there are people out there like my youngest daughter who have tritanopia which if you don't know is blue-yellow color blindness!! it's worrying that by not being able to fully experience the movie then it may have taken away from how magical it was for her!! i just wish that Hallmark would have been more considerate of her and other people who suffer from the same problem because it is real and i'm sorry to say i do have to take a couple of stars off my review because of it!! new york is not as blue and yellow as this movie makes it seem there is actually a lot more gray in the real new york if i am being honest!! #tritanopiaTRUTH
next we get to see lara jeans making a list of movies peter likes in her notebook but we all noticed something strange which is that she puts checkmark boxes next to them but then instead of checking the boxes she crosses the entire line out!! i hope she has better organizational skills when she goes to college in the sequel!! #checkYOURSELFlarajeans!!
and it turns out that lara jeans DOES want to go to new york after all which takes peter a bit by surprise!! he can't even finish his lunch when he finds out!! but he is supportive of her choice and that was very sweet!! it reminded me of when my husband and i were picking a china pattern and i wanted one set and he wanted another but the one i wanted was just like the set my great aunt sibyl used to have so he supported my choice!! also after we got it we went on a vacation to the sole china!! #existsintheatlas
then everyone goes to prom!! this was fun for my daughters because they could relate to it because it reminded them of all of the other proms they've seen in other movies and tv shows!! #relateable but then after prom lara jeans takes peter back to her house and they almost do something that is no appropriate for families!! fortunately Hallmark made them stop before it became too inappropriate!! and it turns out that peter wants to break up with lara jeans because he thinks they will break up being long distance anyways!! #rippedjeans
the movie ends when a very lucky lady gets to marry michael bolton!! it reminded me of how i used to fantasize about marrying him!! but i have to say i do love my husband very much and i probably wouldn't leave him if michael bolton proposed to me!! oh and lara jeans gets back with peter and they graduate!!
so overall i have to say this was a really amazing movie from Hallmark but i do wish we had been able to see more of the earlier stuff in lara jeans and peter's relationship because there was a montage at the end that showed stuff from earlier but it was never shown in full and it would have been interesting to see that!! like i said there are some concerning moments in the movie like how it is not accessible to people with tritanopia but for the most part it is very good!! don't pay attention to all of the FAKE reviews that are saying it is not good because it is!! okay!! MovieMom1973 signing off for now!!
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Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010)
not appropriate for families!!
MovieMom1973 here!! so today my husband, two teenage daughters and i watched this movie because my youngest daughter is reading the book for her book club!! but i have to say that it was a very inappropriate movie and i am not so sure about my daughter being in this book club anymore!!
the first thing you have to know is that it doesn't have anything to do with purses!! when my daughter told us the name of the movie we all thought that it must be about purses but it turned out not to be!! apparently it is about a bunch of gods and their children and someone stealing the weather!! so okay, the first two parts make you think that it is a family focused movie which is good but then there's this other part about stealing and in this house we teach that stealing is wrong!! when the title appeared on screen my husband and i paused the movie and had a long talk with our daughters about that!! in fact we had to have a bunch of long talks over the course of the movie!! it took us six hours to finish it!!
so when the movie begins, percy and his friend grover are going on a class field trip to a museum!! but when they are there a bird woman attacks them!! and then they have to leave so they don't get to learn everything that their classmates who stayed behind did!! i was very worried thinking about what would happen if one of my daughters had to leave a class trip before it is over!! i do have a standing appointment with the vice principal of my daughters' school though so i will ask about that next time!! #educationmatters
later a walking cow steals percy's mom!! this made me really sad because i can't imagine what it would be like to be snatched by a cow in front of my daughters!! fortunately percy gets to go to summer camp right after that but it was really concerning that all of the kids had weapons!! we did have a long talk with our daughters at this point about how weapons can be dangerous and also about what to do if one of your parents gets kidnapped by a cow!! it all made me worry about if maybe mad cow disease is on the rise again!! #respecttheFDA
so what happens next is percy and grover and annabeth get flying sneakers to go find percy's mom!! my youngest daughter thought they were cool so my husband and i paused the movie to talk about how they would probably be very unsafe!! also they meet a lady with snakes for hair and you think maybe she is a sculptress because of all of the statues around but it turns out that she turns people into statues with her eyes!! #badhairday
next the group goes to tennessee and it was very concerning about how they hid in bathroom stalls to stay in a building past its closing time!! also they got attacked by a big snake thing!! then they went to las vegas and that is a very inappropriate place for children to go!! one thing that was interesting though is that while they are there they eat flowers and i think it was nice that the movie tried to promote a more vegetarian dietary approach!! the kids all really seemed to like the flowers too!! they kept eating a lot of them!!
after that they try to pay a man to take them into a scary place with a lot of fire, but first the man burns their money up!! that is defacing government property and it is not a message we should be sending to our children!! at this point i asked my daughter if the book was really like the movie and she assured me that the movie was a very faithful adaptation which makes me worry about what our children are reading these days!!
next they recover the missing weather and go to new york to give it back to the gods!! new york is an even worse place than las vegas for children!! it turns out that someone they knew at summer camp was the bad guy all along!! then percy meets his father but they don't hug!! #ahuggingfamilyisahappyfamily
the most concerning part of this movie is that dark clouds without lightning kept showing up and it made all of the weathermen in the world look like they aren't good at their jobs!! weathermen work very hard to get degrees in meteorology and i was very shocked to see that this movie would trivialize them like that!! #weathermenstrong
overall i would have to say that you should be very careful watching this movie because it does not send very positive messages!! okay!! MovieMom1973 signing off for now!!
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Every Christmas Has a Story (2016)
the town of my dreams!!
MovieMom1973 here!! today my husband, two teenage daughters, and i all watched this movie together because it is a christmas movie and we love christmas movies!! overall i would have to say that i liked it a lot although there were some parts that were a bit concerning!!
so the movie begins with kate harper who is a news anchor for a television station!! it is almost time for christmas but due to an unfortunate technical accident she admits on the air that she doesn't like christmas!! this was very shocking and i could see by their expressions that my daughters were very shocked too!! i suggested that we should turn it off but my husband pointed out that we haven't made it more than five minutes into the last several movies we tried to watch so we decided to give it another chance!! fortunately kate harper is invited to the town of hollyvale to rediscover her christmas spirit!! the mayor says that they want to put a little "ho ho ho" back in her day which i thought was very sweet!! but then my oldest daughter was shocked because she said that that is a bad word!! i can't imagine anyone turning santa's words into something bad so that was disheartening and i just hope my daughter doesn't let it keep her down!!
kate harper and her producer jack go to hollyvale and it is clear that this is a town that really does love christmas!! i turned to my husband and said that i hope we can go to a place like that one day!! i bet it would be really fun if they made every day christmas!! but kate harper notices something which is that the town doesn't seem to have many people around and it did seem a bit surprising!! but jack says she should focus more on finding her christmas spirit again instead of trying to make their work there into an investigative piece!! also the girl who helps get them to their rooms in the hotel drags their luggage up step by step and that is not good because you can scuff the floors that way!! my husband and i immediately paused the movie and had a long talk with our daughters about how a scuffed floor is NOT a happy floor!! #lifelessons
we soon learn that the most important christmas tradition in this town is putting up a tree in the town square but that the trees they need stopped coming two years ago!! kate harper wants to focus on why that is but jack wants to focus on the happiness of christmas!! my family and i were torn about this!! on the one hand it makes sense for a reporter to want to find the truth about a mystery!! on the other hand she is supposed to be finding her christmas spirit not the truth about a mystery!! it really gave us all something to think about!! #christmasmystery??
it turns out that the man who supplies the christmas trees stopped sending them because his wife died on a night when they put the christmas tree up three years ago!! #sad i have to say i'm not sure how much i like it when there is death in a christmas movie!! they are supposed to be happy!! also the mayor of hollyvale was being secretive about that event and i think that public officials should be truthful!! #alwaystellthetruth
fortunately in the end the man brings a christmas tree and kate harper brings her christmas spirit and jack brings kate harper's dad in a santa suit!! also kate harper and jack kiss live on the air!! but it ends kind of abruptly right after that!! i wonder if maybe they plan to continue the story in a sequel!! they could call it "every christmas has another story!!" okay!! MovieMom1973 signing off for now!!
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A California Christmas (2020)
contains bad lessons!!
MovieMom1973 here!! last night my husband, two daughters and i watched this new christmas movie from Hallmark and i'm sorry to say that i cannot recommend it!!
so the first thing you need to know about this movie is that when it started playing it showed the logo for the production company and it had a little animation which included a sword and that was very shocking!! you don't expect to see that kind of thing in a christmas movie!!
the movie then opens up with the main character in a hotel room with a woman he slept with!! and he leaves her in the hotel room and it is clear that he is not going to call her!! this kind of messaging is not appropriate for children and it concerns me that Hallmark would put it in their movie!! i'm sorry but if this is part of the california lifestyle then i just do not approve of it!! do they not have families in california?? #familyvalues
the next thing that happens is that he gets on a motorcycle to ride to work but when he gets there he doesn't even pay for parking!! there is clearly a parking meter in front of the building and he doesn't even bother with it!! my husband and i immediately stopped the movie and had a long talk with our daughters about how it is important to always pay for parking because it is the law!!
soon after that we see several characters assisting in the birth of a cow, and it was a bit graphic!! but we should all remember that this is the miracle of life!!
a couple of times we see flashbacks to when the main girl's father and fiancé died in a car crash!! i do not think that is appropriate for a christmas movie and i'm very worried that it may have been disturbing to my daughters!! #therapybills
one thing that bothers me is that there aren't enough christmas decorations in this movie!! i don't understand how Hallmark didn't have the budget for that when they also clearly didn't spend their money on making it snow!!
a little over halfway through the movie it finally struck me that the main girl's name is callie!! and the movie takes place in california, which sometimes people refer to as cali!! those may be spelled differently but if you sound them out then they are the same!! i don't know if the screenwriter planned this or not but if they didn't then it's a nice coincidence!!
unfortunately we did ultimately have to stop watching because the main couple get into an adult situation that is not appropriate for families or christmas!! and the music that plays when they do isn't christmas music either!! it is very disappointing that Hallmark would make creative choices like this, and i feel that i must give the movie only one start to remind them to try to be better next time!! okay!! MovieMom1973 signing off!!
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Christmas Catch (2018)
a REEL catch!!
MovieMom1973 here!! so after the shocking experience we had with our relatives yesterday, my husband, two daughters and I decided to find a real Christmas movie to brighten our holiday season back up and we were so fortunate to find this one!! i'm so happy that Hallmark still makes quality Christmas movies like this!! what could be better than family, Hallmark, and #MOMMYJUICE??
so the movie opens with our main character mackenzie undercover to try and catch a criminal!! we hear her talking with her partners about how Christmas is the best time of the year and that made us all smile so much!! it was also really impressive how much she knew about Christmas trees!! also we learn that she has TWO Christmas trees in her apartment!! #relateable
to keep the criminal from leaving, she flirts with him and her partners talk about how she's bad at flirting but honestly i have to say she flirted really well and it was realistic and refreshing to see something so true to life!! but unfortunately the criminal figures out what she's doing and runs away and KNOCKS OVER A CHRISTMAS TREE in the process!! it was really shocking that Hallmark would allow something like that in their movie but i guess it did help show that this was a bad person!! #trueevil!!
it also turns out that mackenzie's mom is her police captain too!! i would love it if i could work with my daughters one day!! it really goes to show how important family is!! and it turns out that mackenzie is going to a singles' party for Christmas, so you know that something exciting must be coming up!! when she's there she talks about how she wishes she could meet a man in a magical, movie kind of way. even though her friends tell her life doesn't work that way, right after she meets a charming man by slipping off of a stool and into his arms!! it's a moment that will really warm your heart!! also who says that people don't meet like they do in the movies?? my husband and i met at a café when we both ordered the exact same thing, a cucumber and mayonnaise sandwich!! we ended up splitting the sandwich AND the rest of our lives together and it was VERY magical thank you very much!!
then an fbi agent comes to the police station and i have to say that i didn't like her very much because she didn't approve of there being Christmas decorations!! also she wants the local police to help her catch a criminal...who turns out to be the charming man that mackenize met!! #plottwist!! they all then decide that mackenzie will go on a date with him to try and help their investigation!!
one thing that was a little concerning is that mackenzie asks her mom to stop calling her pumpkin!! my husband and i paused the movie and had a long talk with our daughters about hos it is important to appreciate the terms of endearment that your parents have for you!! i honestly can't even imagine how sad i would be if my daughters asked me to stop calling them my little snow berries!! #parentslovetheirchildren
when mackenzie goes on the date it was so romantic and funny!! the guy quoted some movie that none of us had ever heard of called ferris bueller so we looked it up but it's not a Hallmark movie so i don't know if we'll watch it!!
the movie ultimately gets to a really shocking conclusion, but in the end true love wins and everyone who isn't a bad guy gets to have a merry Christmas!! i do have to say i wish there weren't any guns because it's a family movie, but the rest of the movie was so wonderful that i can forgive that!! okay!! MovieMom1973 signing off for now!!
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The Scorpion King (2002)
i'm appalled!!
MovieMom1973 here!! Merry Christmas to you all!! i would have posted this yesterday but i was just in so much shock that i had to take a day!! i almost took two days!!
so yesterday my husband, my two daughters and i were out spending Christmas with our family because this year it was our turn to go to their house!! and when we got there, my nephews put this movie on so we all watched it together and i just couldn't believe it!! it wasn't appropriate for Christmas at all, and i was just really disappointed that Hallmark would make a movie like this!!
the first thing you have to know is that there was a lot of violence!! also a lot of the characters weren't wearing a tasteful amount of clothing!! when we got home later my husband and i had a long conversation with our daughters about always making sure to be tasteful with the clothes they wear which the characters in this movie did NOT!! i'm just really sorry that we had to see something like this on Christmas and i hope that no one else makes the same mistake!! there wasn't even any snow!! i couldn't believe that my sister in law would let her children have such a movie!! parents please remember to be careful what your children watch!! not even my #MOMMYJUICE!! could save this!! also my sister in law didn't even bake any Christmas cookies!!
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A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding (2018)
#2good2betrue!!
MovieMom1973 here!! so imagine my absolute delight when my husband and two teenage daughters told me that Hallmark had made a SECOND christmas prince movie and it was bringing back all of the characters and christmas and love that we came to know in the first one!! we all knew that we had to watch it right away!! #lotsmoreholidaylove #lotsmorefamilytime #LOTSMOREMOMMYJUICE!!
so the movie opens by showing us everything that has happened since the last movie like amber and richard traveling back and forth to see each other and there's one part where you see a bunch of magazine covers showing them!! but i have to say it was a little disappointing that the magazine covers didn't give them a cute ship name!! we had a long family discussion about what the best ship name for them would be and we were really torn between "ramber" and "ambard!!" #teamramber!!
but what's even better is that right after that we found ANOTHER ship to cheer for which was amber's dad and mrs. averill!! it was so cute when they met for the first time and you could see how different they were and also i think amber's dad looks better without the beard!!
one very early bit of conflict is that amber's dad has his cab stolen at the airport just like amber had hers stolen in the last movie!! #callback?? except this time it is the guy who has been hired to plan the royal wedding who steals the cab!! the wedding planner is named sahil and he is so funny and full of energy and we couldn't wait to see more of him and we were also wondering what would happen with him and amber's dad!!
sahil has some very interesting wedding ideas and i have to say i wish he could have planned my wedding!! amber is a bit reluctant though because she feels like it isn't quite her!! #conflict!!
then it turns out that richard's plans to modernize aldovia are running into problems, and when he gives a speech his evil cousin from the first movie is there to watch!! #stillcantfindaldoviaonamap but later the evil cousin shows up to ask for forgiveness for what he did in the last movie and richard lets him stay for christmas which is just so sweet!! my husband and i had a long talk with our daughters about how you should always be ready to forgive your family because family is what matters most!! #familyiswhatmattersmost!!
then we see sahil and amber trying her wedding gown out and i honestly felt tears in my eyes because she just looked so beautiful in it i wanted to cry for her!! one day i hope my daughters get to wear wedding gowns that look just like those (or even a little better (not that i think that's possible))!!
after that it was so sweet when her dad gave her a locket with a picture of her mom as a wedding gift so that her mom could be with her on her big day!! #thanksfortheidea!!
also amber and richard go looking for a christmas tree and amber says that a perfect christmas tree should be like a cone, not a triangle, which is exactly what my great aunt sibyl always used to say!! #greatfamilywisdom!!
one really sweet thing that happens is that princess emily is in a play and when production shuts down amber has it moved to the palace so it can still go on!! it made me smile to think about when my daughters were children in plays at their school like "alice in wonderland," "the nutcracker," and "equus!!" the play that princess emily was in was about how if you kiss a girl then a bunch of creatures will steal your clothes and santa claus will be born!!
anyway things seem to keep getting worse and worse because aldovia's economy is having a bad christmas and evil cousin simon is around and then amber almost shoots her friends with an arrow on accident when they show up!! but fortunately she misses but UNFORTUNATELY she hits a statue and the statue's head explodes!! #aldovianarrowsarestrong
i'll try not to spoil too much more but in the end true love and family win and everyone has the best christmas ever!! overall i'd have to say that i liked this movie even better than the first because sahil is so funny!! definitely watch it if you haven't and please don't pay attention to the FAKE negative reviews!! okay!! MovieMom1973 signing off for now!!
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A Christmas Prince (2017)
#toogoodtobetrue!!
MovieMom1973 here!! i have a new review for you after my husband, teenage daughters and i watched another Hallmark movie that we missed out on when it came out, "the christmas prince!!" i don't know how we missed it but i sure am glad we finally got to watch it now because it made us all really appreciate everything that christmas is about!! #lotsofholidaylove #familytime #MOMMYJUICE!!
in this movie we learn that the prince of a european country called aldovia is at risk of losing his royal crown if he doesn't show up and take his throne!! none of us had ever even heard of aldovia and we couldn't find it when we tried to look for it in the atlas!! maybe it's a new country?? either way their customs are fascinating!! and it turns out their national language is apparently english because their airport only has signs in english and they all talk in english so really when you think about it, it's pretty convenient!! one other thing we noticed was that the aldovian flag looks an awful lot like the nigerian flag except it has a coat of arms in the white stripe in the middle!! #goodtasteinflags
now our main character is a journalist in new york who gets assigned to cover the story of the prince coming back to his country to be its king and all of the tabloids say he is a real bad boy so you think that maybe she's going to fall in love with him but then when she looks at his picture she says he isn't her type so then you think that maybe this story won't play out the way you expect after all!! #originalstory
once she gets to aldovia she tries to hail a cab to go to the palace but then a very rude man swoops in and takes her cab!! my husband and i immediately paused the movie and had a long talk with our daughters about how it is very impolite to take someone's cab when they are waiting for it!! fortunately after we resumed we saw that she was able to get a ride with the rest of the press to the palace, but it turns out the press conference gets cancelled!! while all of the other reporters leave, our main character decides to sneak back into the palace because she doesn't want to have to go home without a story!! i turned to my husband and said, "she has moxie!!" my husband said, "i think she's plucky!!" my oldest daughter said, "i think she's spunky!!" my youngest daughter said, "what do those words mean??" we had a talk about what those words meant and a very lively debate about whether she had moxie, was plucky, or spunky!! good movies make you talk just like that!! #debatenight??ithoughtitwasmovienight!!
while she is sneaking around she bumps into a butler and pretends to be the young princess' new tutor to explain her presence!! now i do have to say that this is a bit concerning because in my house we teach that it is never okay to lie but i guess i can forgive it here because the movie is so sweet!! also to my surprise it turned out that the rude man who stole her cab is actually the prince!! and the princess she has to tutor is a real scamp!! #plottwist!!
so when our main character has to give the princess her first lesson we find out that the princess rides in a wheelchair, which was really a surprise because from seeing her before it looked like she only needed crutches!! the princess is not well behaved at first but they quickly form a very strong bond and the princess opens up to her about how hard it is to be a rich girl!! and they form the bond in only about two minutes, so you know that our main character is really sweet!! JUST like this MOVIE!! #richgirlsarepeopletoo!!
they go outside where the prince has shaved his rude beard and the three of them bond by shooting an arrow through a window!! and our main character seems like she's a bit smitten with him, at least until you remember that she said earlier that he is not her type!!
so the main character keeps snooping around the castle and building her bond with the princess and being awkward but cute and then one day she finds the prince playing a christmas song on the piano and it shows how sensitive he is!! he tells her that music is the food of the soul!! ummmm you know what i think is the food of the soul?? #MOMMYJUICE!!
then they have a dinner party and lady sofia shows up and from the start it looks like she has some kind of history with the prince!! she gives him a heart-shaped ornament to put on the tree and tells him to "be careful with it," and I went "awwwwww" because it was like she was telling him to be careful with her heart!! from that moment on i was #teamsofia!! but my husband was shipping the main character and the prince and my oldest daughter was shipping the main character's two friends back home and my youngest daughter was shipping the princess and the butler!! #iwillgodownwiththisship!!
it does get a little bit scary when the main character follows the prince on horseback into the woods and gets lost!! i guess that aldovian snow doesn't keep tracks for more than a second or two because she isn't able to follow her horse's tracks back home after it throws her off its back and she wanders around until dark when a wolf shows up!! i always thought that wolves travel in packs but i guess not in aldovia!! it really does seem like an interesting country!! so the prince shows up and frightens the wolf away and then he takes the main character to a nearby cabin for the night and they almost do something that isn't appropriate for children!! but fortunately they don't!! #truespiritofchristmas
but it DOES turn out that the prince has been adopted and isn't the true heir to the throne and also his evil cousin and sofia snoop around and find out that the main character isn't who she says she is either!! it gets really dramatic!! when the prince is going to be crowned, they reveal that she is a journalist and that he is adopted in front of everyone in a really shocking way!! All of a sudden it looks like there might not be a christmas after all!!
but fortunately there still IS a christmas and i promise you it will warm your heart!! okay!! MovieMom1973 signing off for now!!
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Midnight at the Magnolia (2020)
my favorite Hallmark movie of the season!!
MovieMom1973 here!! yes!! with "midnight at the magnolia," Hallmark has shown once again why they are the #bestinthebusiness when it comes to christmas movies!! i can't wait to share how absolutely magical it was, and i only just finished watching it with my husband, my two teenage daughters, and my #MOMMYJUICE!!
so the first thing you notice right away in this movie is that the main actress has her life very put together based on how she is up early before her alarm and ready to go and prepares stacks of avocado slices with halves of halves of cherry tomatoes that she doesn't eat, while the main actor drags himself out of bed only after the alarm has gone off and can't press his own coffee and has to eat boxes of cereal!! as soon as i saw that i turned to my husband and said, "those two have a lot of contrasts, i bet if they end up in the same scene then they will be really mismatched!!" i also loved that the radio station they worked at is called 98.8 fm breeze which is close to "freeze" which is appropriate because it is really cold outside in this movie!!
anyway it turns out that these two actually do share a scene together very quickly because they host a radio show together!! they banter like a morning talk show and you get to see the subtle nuances of how they really do have lots of contrasts!! and then they talk in the break room and we all noticed something right away, which was that there was fake snow on the stairs leading upstairs outside the breakroom!! also the guy started insulting the girl's boyfriend because he wears sweater vests!! my husband and i immediately paused the movie and had a long talk with our daughters about how putting fake snow that's probably just cotton on the stairs is dangerous because you can slip and also about how you know that a guy is not dangerous BECAUSE he wears sweater vests!! my husband wears them all the time and that's how i knew it was okay to take him home to my parents when we were dating!! take notes boys!!
after that their boss tells them that their show started something called "#windycitywakeup." my daughters explained to me what a hashtag is and i really love the concept!! #youlearnsomethingneweveryday!!
so the main girl's boyfriend takes her out for coffee at a goat shop and he's a bit concerned that she and the main guy might have feelings for each other because of their long history together, and i have to admit that i had been wondering if there was something between them but then she says that there isn't and compliments her boyfriend on his sweater vest, so it seems like she is really committed to her current boyfriend!!
the main characters' families have been friends for a long time which is very sweet and then they all have a nice dinner together and one of their dads says they should all have a group hug to celebrate the success of the radio show!! i thought that was such a nice thing to see because so much of what comes out of hollywood these days is less group hug and more group shoot out!! #rockthegrouphug!!
anyway it actually turns out that both of the main characters' partners break up with them because of how close they are and it happens in this coincidental way because the sweater vest boyfriend calls the girl to break up with her right as the guy shows up to tell her that his girlfriend broke up with him!! the girl tells the guy and he says that that makes it the cherry on top, but really it was more like the half of a half of a cherry tomato on top!! #sad
so then it turns out that they have to pretend to be in a relationship because that is going to help save their show and save their dads' live jazz club!! and we all thought that there was no way they could ever convince anyone that they were really together because of how mismatched they are but it turns out that people actually do believe it!! the story really gets crazy!! #oppositesattract??
i don't wan't to spoil the whole movie of course but there are other interesting things to note!! like how when they go to a fancy dinner the girl has white wine and the guy has red wine and it matches how she is blonde and he has darker hair!!
i really do have to say just how so sweet it is that these two souls find their way to each other in the end because i want my daughters to find their way to a man like that like jack someday because you could tell he really loves maggie because he took her mother's engagement ring and apologized to her for how neither of them wanted to date each other before until she realized she had loved him and he didn't know he had loved her too!! #SWOON!!
so in conclusion this one of the absolute best Hallmark movies i have seen to date!! don't pay attention to the FAKE reviews that clearly have not watched this movie because it is such a relatable romance that they clearly have NOT watched the same movie!! okay!! MovieMom signing off for now!!
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Holidate (2020)
We turned it off less than half a minute in!!
MovieMom1973 here!! so today my husband, my two teenage daughters and i were sitting down to watch another christmas movie from Hallmark and we thought that this one looked so cute!! family, Hallmark, and #MOMMYJUICE!! what more could anyone need?? well i'm sorry to say we had to turn it off less than half a minute after it started!! not only do we see the main character smoking in that time, but she also says a bad word and doesn't even like the holidays!! after we turned it off, my husband and i had a long talk with our daughters about appropriate language and how important the holidays are!! parents please be careful watching this with your children because it is clearly NOT appropriate!!
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A Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby (2019)
i have never been so disappointed with Hallmark!!
MovieMom1973 here!! so if you have seen my reviews for the first two christmas prince movies then you know that my husband, my two teenage daughters, and i all absolutely LOVED them!! we were all so excited to see what Hallmark had in store with the third one that we couldn't wait to watch it!! but we were all so disappointed when this movie turned out to be NOT GOOD AT ALL!! not even my #MOMMYJUICE could keep me happy through this!! why, Hallmark?? i just can't understand where it all went so wrong after the first two were so magical!!
so like the last one, this movie opens up with a quick overview of what our favorite amber and richard have been up to since the last movie ended, only this one was so short!! i wanted to see more of what they did on their honeymoon, which by the way was very obviously just a cheap greenscreen!! i never noticed any bad greenscreen in the others, so why was it so noticeable here?? and then right away they're talking to the press because amber is #PREGNANT!! and all that the press wants to know about is what they might name their baby!! and that's all i want to know about too so why can't they at least give us some hints??
but it turns out that amber and richard are being selfish and not even telling their family about what possible baby names they might pick, and also they have to re-sign a treaty with the neighboring kingdom of penglia!! just like with aldovia, we have not been able to locate penglia in the atlas!!
i'm sorry to harp on this, but when i was pregnant with my daughters i made sure to tell my family about every name that my husband and i were considering!! we had baby showers that were just about picking the right name, even!! amber and richard had a magical time when they met and when they got married so why can't they have a magical time naming their baby??
and then it turns out that they have a book called "my perfect birth plan??" like come on!! no way are amber and richard book parents!! as much love as they have for each other, they shouldn't need books to tell them what to do!! also they wouldn't even let their family be in the room for them during amber's ultrasound!! my husband and I immediately stopped the movie and had a long talk with our daughters about how you should never keep family out during something so important!! when i was pregnant we had both of our mothers, both of our fathers, all of our siblings, and as many future aunts and uncles as we could fit into the room with us!! and why can't they let their family know if it's going to be a boy or a girl?? #SELFISHparents!!
FORTUNATELY sahil shows up and says that he is going to throw amber a baby shower and you feel so relieved because FINALLY they're getting back on track with the movie!! but even THAT doesn't work out!! because you think you're going to get to see that but instead the movie focuses on some boring treaty and the treaty goes missing so we can't even be all done with that and get back to what's important!! and guess what?? apparently the treaty going missing means that amber and richard's baby is going to be cursed, and that worries amber!! why you ask?? i guess because her precious book didn't teach her how to deal with curses!! #parentsdontneedbookstolove
and then it gets even worse when amber suspects sahil of stealing the treaty when all sahil ever wanted to do was make sure she had the best wedding and the best gown and the best baby shower that we STILL haven't gotten to see!! ugh!! except then we finally do get to see the baby shower and they do the baby picture game and exchange gifts and it all seems sweet but amber and richard still won't say what baby names they're considering or whether it's a boy or a girl!! i mean how rude is it to accept gifts and then not tell the person who gave them to you what kind of baby you will have??
so anyway after a lot more boring treaty stuff amber gives birth to what is finally revealed to be a girl named elleri!! way to forget about the most interesting part of the movie for so long, Hallmark!! also it turns out that the nice butler from the first two movies is an evil mastermind criminal!!
i'm giving this movie a 1 out of 10 to remind Hallmark to challenge themselves next time!! it was really disappointing that they seemed to have the wrong priorities with the story in this movie, and i can only hope that if they make a fourth that they will bring back the magic that was missing this time!!
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The Kissing Booth (2018)
A rare miss from Hallmark!!
MovieMom1973 here!! so my husband and my two teenaged daughters and i watched this movie and i have to say i was just really shocked!! the behaviors of the characters in this movie are completely inappropriate considering the age of people who will be watching it due to the rating!! the whole premise is about kissing and is that really what we want our children to see?? a bunch of high school students create a kissing booth with the approval of their school and then there is no adult supervision whatsoever!! don't schools still not allow pda?? i have a standing appointment with the vice principal of my daughters' school which was fortunately the day after we watched the movie so i asked and she assured me that they absolutely do NOT allow it!! so why would hollywood want to give a different impression??
another thing that is very concerning is that there are a lot of scenes of the characters taking their clothes off or just already being shirtless!! after we finished the movie, my husband and i had a very long talk with our daughters about not taking their shirts off in the boys' locker room!! why can't we go back to making innocent entertainment that is not all about sex all the time? i had to listen to "lollipop" by aqua after the movie just to hear something that isn't all about sex again!!
i will say that one positive thing is there is a scene where the main couple kiss in a gazebo while it is raining and that reminded me of one of my favorite movies ever "the sound of music!!" my family and i watch it once a month and if you haven't seen it then I completely recommend it!!
unfortunately that doesn't take away from the fact that most of the rest of this movie is just not suitable viewing material for a family!! at the end the main character talks about how much the kissing booth meant to everyone and it is just very sad that some many children would prioritize an experience without proper adult supervision that was only even on one night of their lives!! i think that teenagers are smart enough to know not to put undue emphasis on something like that!!
i know that there is a sequel to the movie but i can promise you that we absolutely will NOT be watching it in this house!! please go back to making wholesome entertainment again Hallmark!! okay!! MovieMom1973 signing off for now!!
Christmas in the Wild (2019)
A holiday for the heart!!
MovieMom1973 here!! as a mother of two teenage daughters, it is important to me that they are able to find inspiration and empowerment in the movies we watch as a family!! i was so happy when this movie turned out to be one of the most inspirational and empowering movies any of us has ever seen!! my husband really liked it too!! it will definitely give you the warm spirit of the holidays and make you rethink buying ivory products!!
this movie teaches young girls that when they get dumped unexpectedly, they can always get their lives back on track by moving to africa to take care of elephants!! (of course i hope my daughters never have to do it, but it is comforting to know that they can!!) the baby elephants were very cute!! this is definitely in my top five elephant movies, and probably even in my top ten Hallmark movies!!
the movie stars kristin davis and rob lowe, and they were both so sweet and charming!! it was nice to finally get to see kristen davis in something because my friends always tell me she is wonderful but her other projects aren't always family appropriate so i don't see a lot of them!! like she was recently in a show called "labor of love" that was like "the bachelorette" but for having a baby!! i didn't want my daughters to see anything like that!! but this movie was okay for them!! also kristen davis was in some show on HBO about a bunch of women sleeping around new york city but i never really watched that!!
one scene that was a little concerning is when kristen davis and rob lowe have to track a missing elephant in the middle of the night and end up staying in an open vehicle overnight, which is definitely not safe!! my husband and i had a long talk without our daughters after we finished the movie about how you should only ever sleep in your bed, or maybe your significant other's but only if you're married!! i was a little worried that a lion might eat them in the middle of the night but fortunately that didn't happen!!
i hope Hallmark keeps making quality films like this one because our entire family really loves them!! okay!! MovieMom1973 signing out for now!!
The Fault in Our Stars (2014)
Cancer can be beautiful!!
MovieMom1973 here!! okay so i watched this movie with my husband and teenage daughters and i have to say just really well done!! after the movie we all talked about it and my husband and i agreed that we hope our daughters find men like augustus waters one day!!
there was one scene where the main couple kiss in the anne frank house and the people around them started clapping!! it was so sweet that we all started clapping too!! it really made us realize that there can be beauty in all things, even scary things like cancer!!
so why not a full ten out of ten rating for this amazing movie?? well i do have to warn everyone that there is a scene where the main couple sleep together and that kind of thing isn't appropriate for children like my teenage daughters!! they also use bad words sometimes!! please remember that impressionable children are watching these movies, hollywood!!
one thing that was really sweet was that some of the characters say "okay" as a way of saying "i love you," and i thought that was just such an amazing thing!! my husband and i have been trying to find a word like that for ourselves!! so far we've tried "hello," "alright," and "toaster oven!!" we haven't found one that sticks yet though!!
all in all i want to say that it is a really amazing film but again please do be careful with showing it to your children!! okay!! MovieMom1973 signing off for now!!
Christmas with a View (2018)
An amazing Christmas movie for the family!!
MovieMom1973 here!! i watched this last night with my husband and my daughters and i have to say that we all really loved it!! okay so there were some scenes with the male actors shirtless which i don't agree with in a christmas movie but other than that it was really good!! the kissing was always sweet which is a nice break from all of the wild sex that hollywood usually shows us!! the main girl's family also said grace before eating dinner which was nice to see!! one thing i have to say could have been improved is that there were a lot of scene where the characters were supposed to have just finished eating but their plates were completely clean!! like come on!! it never looks like that in my house because we enjoy our meal times!! also there was a scene early on where a celebrity chef uses a bad word which was really shocking because you usually have more of a family focus with your word choice in these types of movies!! but at least the movie did censor the word so there was that!! still it was a good enough movie that i can look past that, i just wish there was some warning because like i said my teenage daughters were watching too!! after we finished it my husband and i had a long talk with them about appropriate language!! all in all it was a very sweet movie, definitely one of my favorite that Hallmark has done!! okay!! MovieMom1973 signing off for now!!