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.
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!
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