Alright, this blog is dedicated to Christmas movies that make you roll your eyes but still feel warm and fuzzy inside. Today I have a movie for you that will just make you shake your head and feel confused. I got a text from one of this blog's readers the other night alerting me to this *gem* of a show. She said she only made it about 7 minutes in before shutting it off. Everyone I have asked about this movie said about the same thing. You've been warned.
Back to Christmas (also known as Correcting Christmas) is the story of Ali, a woman who gets sent one year back in time to Christmas Eve when she broke up with her boyfriend. Now, this show has all the elements of a good holiday rom-com (high-powered workaholic who needs to learn a lesson, obvious romantic road-blocks, whimsical Christmas magic, etc.) but it's still probably the worst movie I've ever seen.
The main takeaway is that time travel makes everyone in your life a horrible, mean, rotten person. The show doesn't show us much of what the supporting cast was like before the time hop but I don't understand how Ali was friends with any of them in this state. Her live-in boyfriend of five years suddenly turns out to be a huge jerk, like, really, he is awful. I don't know how she lived with him for so long and never realized what a selfish jerk he is and that they had drastically different ideas about where their lives were going. Was it Stockholm Syndrome? Was she in a coma for five years?
I decided that the easiest way to review this movie is to talk about the characters because the story line is nonsensical and barely existent.
Ali- Can't let go of a boyfriend who obviously wasn't right for her, works too much. Has no personality or common sense to speak of.
Cameron- Robot douche-bag AKA Ali's boyfriend. He suddenly finds it necessary to tell Ali that he hates Christmas, kids, Ali's job, marriage, being a good person, etc. He must be a really good actor because he recites these lines with the missing heart that his character has. He is so robotic and, like Ali, has very little personality.
Brian- Ali's dad. He's the only character that seems to not turn into a bi-polar monster with the time hop. He has strange speech patterns and I can't tell if it's the actor trying to make the character interesting or if he genuinely talks like that all of the time. It's almost like an adult baby-talk. It's strange. You can also see him trying to remember his lines and/or improvising them poorly.
Robin- Ali's mom. She has an unnecessarily grating personality. She too delivers lines that I'm not sure were written or just improvised. Either way she's snotty and mean and has had way too many eye-lifts. She is also blind to the fact that Cameron is a total tool.
Jason- Ali's brother and possibly my favorite terrible character. He apparently works travelling all over the world but looks like he's about 17. He wears Armani suits that are actually ill-fitting Wal-Mart suits. He also falls victim to the time traveling personality changes and delivers his continuous stream of nasty remarks with so little skill that I actually looked him up on IMdB to see if he is a real actor. You could have picked up a half-dead
Ginny- Ali's fairy godmother/ghost of Christmas past? She is probably the most dispensable character in the whole movie. It's played like she's vital in explaining the time change and what Ali is supposed to be doing with her second chance but it would be so much better if she wasn't in this film. She is confusing, annoying and at one point shows up in a gorilla suit. I don't know how many more ways I can say that this movie sucks!
Nick- He's the next-door neighbor who has been crushing on Ali since high school. Although, he's a good person, owns his own contracting business, and generally seems to be a great guy who is doing good things with his life, everyone seems to think he is a dead end for Ali. For real, this guy seems great yet everyone keeps bagging on the fact that he hasn't left the small town they grew up in. It's not like he's living in a van down by the river though. Everyone lives in mini-mansions in what looks like a pretty posh Northern California neighborhood.
Let's recap- this show is awful. Everyone I have asked about it said they couldn't even finish watching. The only reason I endured to the end was to write this blog post. So, if you want to truly waste 90 minutes of your life and watch a whole supporting cast of nerve-grating, nasty meanies at Christmas then this is the show for you!
Otherwise, I say skip this one. For real. Don't do it.
I give Back to Christmas one star on the holiday movie rating scale which makes it about -7 when compared to all movies. Have I mentioned how terrible this one is yet?
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The main takeaway is that time travel makes everyone in your life a horrible, mean, rotten person. The show doesn't show us much of what the supporting cast was like before the time hop but I don't understand how Ali was friends with any of them in this state. Her live-in boyfriend of five years suddenly turns out to be a huge jerk, like, really, he is awful. I don't know how she lived with him for so long and never realized what a selfish jerk he is and that they had drastically different ideas about where their lives were going. Was it Stockholm Syndrome? Was she in a coma for five years?
I decided that the easiest way to review this movie is to talk about the characters because the story line is nonsensical and barely existent.
Ali- Can't let go of a boyfriend who obviously wasn't right for her, works too much. Has no personality or common sense to speak of.
Cameron- Robot douche-bag AKA Ali's boyfriend. He suddenly finds it necessary to tell Ali that he hates Christmas, kids, Ali's job, marriage, being a good person, etc. He must be a really good actor because he recites these lines with the missing heart that his character has. He is so robotic and, like Ali, has very little personality.
Brian- Ali's dad. He's the only character that seems to not turn into a bi-polar monster with the time hop. He has strange speech patterns and I can't tell if it's the actor trying to make the character interesting or if he genuinely talks like that all of the time. It's almost like an adult baby-talk. It's strange. You can also see him trying to remember his lines and/or improvising them poorly.
Robin- Ali's mom. She has an unnecessarily grating personality. She too delivers lines that I'm not sure were written or just improvised. Either way she's snotty and mean and has had way too many eye-lifts. She is also blind to the fact that Cameron is a total tool.
Jason- Ali's brother and possibly my favorite terrible character. He apparently works travelling all over the world but looks like he's about 17. He wears Armani suits that are actually ill-fitting Wal-Mart suits. He also falls victim to the time traveling personality changes and delivers his continuous stream of nasty remarks with so little skill that I actually looked him up on IMdB to see if he is a real actor. You could have picked up a half-dead
Ginny- Ali's fairy godmother/ghost of Christmas past? She is probably the most dispensable character in the whole movie. It's played like she's vital in explaining the time change and what Ali is supposed to be doing with her second chance but it would be so much better if she wasn't in this film. She is confusing, annoying and at one point shows up in a gorilla suit. I don't know how many more ways I can say that this movie sucks!
Nick- He's the next-door neighbor who has been crushing on Ali since high school. Although, he's a good person, owns his own contracting business, and generally seems to be a great guy who is doing good things with his life, everyone seems to think he is a dead end for Ali. For real, this guy seems great yet everyone keeps bagging on the fact that he hasn't left the small town they grew up in. It's not like he's living in a van down by the river though. Everyone lives in mini-mansions in what looks like a pretty posh Northern California neighborhood.
Let's recap- this show is awful. Everyone I have asked about it said they couldn't even finish watching. The only reason I endured to the end was to write this blog post. So, if you want to truly waste 90 minutes of your life and watch a whole supporting cast of nerve-grating, nasty meanies at Christmas then this is the show for you!
Otherwise, I say skip this one. For real. Don't do it.
I give Back to Christmas one star on the holiday movie rating scale which makes it about -7 when compared to all movies. Have I mentioned how terrible this one is yet?
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