Movie Review: 12 Dates of Christmas

Last night after coming home from the Carol Service my church, I felt very festive so decided to watch a Christmas movie, so I did – I watched Nativity starring Martin Freeman as a primary school teacher who is in charge of putting on a Nativity Play – it was a very funny, cute, heart-warming movie. 

After that I then decided to watch a Christmas every day from now until Christmas Day and even maybe up to the New Year. Today I watched 12 Dates of Christmas, a movie which was on Channel 5.

I thought the 12 Dates of Christmas would be a cheesy Christmas movie but decided to watch it anyway, because Christmas movies always make me smile. 

The 12 Dates of Christmas stars Amy Smart as Kate who finds herself reliving Christmas Eve over and over again. This includes going on a date with Miles (played by Mark-Paul Gosselaar) as well as trying to win back her old boyfriend Jack.   

The premise of the movie is for Kate to discover how to break the cycle or reliving Christmas Eve – a bit like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day – should she attempt to win back Jack or should she pursue Miles or is there something else for her.

Kate is quite a selfish person - she was rude to Miles on the first Christmas Eve date, she left him to go after her ex who turned her down anyway.  She was rude to her neighbour who baked her a cake for the holidays. She was rude to her step mother when she went round her dinner. She was basically a sourpuss who only wanted one thing – her ex back.

During the 12 days that she relives Christmas Eve, Kate is on a journey of finding herself and becoming  a nicer person – to me it’s a bit like the Christmas Carol and Scrooge. Scrooge was a miserable man and due to the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future he changes and starts being nice to people. This is exactly what Kate does – she becomes nice, she is nice to her neighbour and ends up setting her up with a man she met in a shop. She starts to be nicer to her step-mother. She bakes with her neighbour and helps another lost soul who was waiting for a blind date in the same pub she was meeting Miles in.

Throughout the “12 dates” Kate starts to realise she does not need Jack and starts to fall for Miles. It is a feel good movie that makes you smile, even if it is a bit cheesy. But a good thing about it - Zak from Saved by the Bell is in it.

I am looking forward to the tomorrow and my next movie – not sure what it will be! Tis the season!