World News – USA – Dear Christmas Review: Chris of All Trades, Master of Natalie’s Heart

Well, I can’t tell you anything, but I love it when fictional couples do exactly what Natalie does on Dear Christmas.

Their love was difficult to classify. Was it love at first sight or should the topic be that love took time? Technically, they fit in both directions.

Natalie was a podcaster who discussed true love all the time, even though she had never seen it herself. It had to suck that she watched endless footage and listened to others telling their stories when she hadn’t experienced anything similar.

Additionally, her parents were the perfect couple, still happily married decades later after meeting in high school. Was it high school?

And not only had her younger sister found true love, but she also started a family with him. Emma was delightfully pregnant at the beginning of the film, and all she could talk about was Billy getting home before the baby arrived and, of course, Natalie’s love life.

She was wonderfully meddling in that way little sisters can be, and it was sweet that Natalie had her encouragement as she worked through everything she felt for Chris.

In a way, it was love, or at least lust at first sight, for Natalie. Chris or Mr. . Christmas was the man who showed up to swap her flat tire for her and send her on her merry way home.

You have to admit, when a handsome man wearing flannel shows up as pleasantly and helpful as possible and changes your tire for you while you warm up in his festive tow truck with a hot chocolate station WITH MARSHMALLOWS, then it becomes a flutter in me , the heart.

Chris is easy going and confident, and Natalie has responded well to the positive energy he is putting into the universe.

But Chris is not just any guy. He’s someone from Natalie’s past, and it’s quite amusing when Natalie tries to figure out why he looks so familiar and what guy from band camp he is.

At first, it’s enough to wonder if Chris is going to give her a hard time, or even hold a bit of a grudge, for giving him the time of day on the eighth. Grade didn’t pay, but Chris is a good person so he doesn’t do that once.

Instead, Chris is the guy who always shows up, and it becomes an ongoing theme throughout the movie as she never knows when she’s going to meet him next, but she always does.

Chris is a jack of all trades, and the man has so many jobs and activities that he participates in that it loses the count. No matter where Natalie goes, meeting him is fate.

Hell, even she brings up that fancy sentence about fate. The downside to the film is that they have relied heavily on this repetitive gimmick, if you will, to build the relationship and true love that blossoms between Natalie and Chris.

Although there was nothing wrong with Melissa Joan Hart and Jason Priestley’s interactions and they looked good together, it was still difficult to get involved in their supposed love.

It hardly seemed like they talked about a lot outside of their shared travel experiences when they were in the pub together.

When it came down to the movie actually building the romance between them, it all felt fleeting at best.

With Christmas novels, you already know where the movie is going and how it will end. So it’s all about the journey to their happy ending.

We knew Natalie and Chris would fall in love by the end of the movie, but the journey to that point was shockingly lackluster. It’s a shame too, because it’s always refreshing when the romantic leads aren’t always a couple of 20-year-old disaster adults.

Chris goes from the nice guy Natalie has some attraction to but felt like a casual, burgeoning friendship to their true love, and I don’t see how we got to that point.

Their dance at the Firefighter’s Ball was sweet, but it was a perfect moment of romance that they withdraw less than a minute after it started. Then there’s a hint of it later that implies it mattered to both of them, but we wouldn’t know; we didn’t see it.

Even their « You look great » shared when they both see themselves dressed to the nines feels like two friends are saying politely instead of two people falling head over heels.

Natalie, bless her heart, is ill equipped to deal with a budding romance. I mean, it might be that she didn’t know they should be too, but no, all jokes aside, she doesn’t have the experience in the romance department to figure out if they’re moving too fast or not.

You may appreciate the fact that she tries to be more logical and rational about everything, but it does result in her pushing Chris away when he is just enjoying their mood and what they’re up to.

It’s not fair to him, and she spoke of a place of fear and tried to compare what she had with Chris to the numerous reports of lovebirds on her podcast or her parents and sister.

Natalie’s real confirmation that she’s not moving too fast is to keep her diary of Aug.. Finding class and discovering that she had feelings for Chris back then.

Chris’ love for her is not at all fast, having had feelings for her as a child, and she realizes the same, but only after her father finds her diary.

Isn’t true love more about the feeling and the person than the time frame, the speed and all that?

Natalie’s love confession on her podcast is sweet, and Chris is so touched that he shows up at her parents’ house with a glass unicorn ornament.

Is glass blowing the thematic task for lifetime films this Christmas season? We also got some pretty great glass blowing during the Christmas edition and an appreciation for ornaments on the vine during the Christmas season.

The glass blowing is one of the best moments in the film. I love that they show the whole process and Natalie and Chris had a great time together.

I also think it’s great that it was made from heart jewelry. Did you capture all of the hearts that popped up during the movie, and even the hint about it?

It was such a cute thing given the movie stars Melissa Joan Hart and was part of the Hartbreak Productions of her and her mother.

It is also a pleasure to see two former teenage heart pounders, Melissa Joan Hart and Jason Priestley, as romantic leads. Nostalgia about Christmas movie goodness is a win.

I suppose kudos are deserved for this film as much of the shooting had to comply with COVID restrictions. Maybe that had an impact on the whole movie and made a few things feel so bad.

There was a lack of larger group scenes and the Christmas spirit of the city that one would expect. All angry parties were off-screen and the number of characters was limited.

Real Estate Agent: Between you and me, this is the first time in a month that I’ve shown this place. So you can get this place for a theft. Vincent: My favorite way of getting things.

It is one of life’s great mysteries. You never know exactly what will happen next.

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