Wow! I must have built this one up in my mind too much, because, boy, was I disappointed.
There were too many stories going on at once and not enough focus given to each one to understand how the feelings and situations developed.
I could see that perhaps, after a while, Andi might be a nice enough person, but based on the information I had, I didn't think that she was worth Michael's (Robert Buckley the hottie) attention and her kid was not endearing at all, he was a complete dweeb. Whoever wrote this obviously thought that doing Magic was cool, but I don't think it is.
It was also a shame that the gay couples adoption of a child was hardly mentioned as that could have been a perfect plot for one of these films all by itself and they were a cute couple. I liked the fact that no fuss was made about them being gay though.
The Mother and Father's relationship was far too quickly "solved" and I actually couldn't see what the hell Treat Williams saw in the bitter and twisted witch.
Also the house decorating thing was just weird, surely that's way too much, even for my cousins across the Atlantic?
I believe that if they had explored even just two of these stories, instead of three or four, that they could have been a lot more successful. I suppose that I was spoiled when I watched 'The Christmas Setup (to 2020)' which actually gave a decent representation of an LGBT Christmas romance for the first time and hoped to see something else with more depth to the characters that represent me.
There were too many stories going on at once and not enough focus given to each one to understand how the feelings and situations developed.
I could see that perhaps, after a while, Andi might be a nice enough person, but based on the information I had, I didn't think that she was worth Michael's (Robert Buckley the hottie) attention and her kid was not endearing at all, he was a complete dweeb. Whoever wrote this obviously thought that doing Magic was cool, but I don't think it is.
It was also a shame that the gay couples adoption of a child was hardly mentioned as that could have been a perfect plot for one of these films all by itself and they were a cute couple. I liked the fact that no fuss was made about them being gay though.
The Mother and Father's relationship was far too quickly "solved" and I actually couldn't see what the hell Treat Williams saw in the bitter and twisted witch.
Also the house decorating thing was just weird, surely that's way too much, even for my cousins across the Atlantic?
I believe that if they had explored even just two of these stories, instead of three or four, that they could have been a lot more successful. I suppose that I was spoiled when I watched 'The Christmas Setup (to 2020)' which actually gave a decent representation of an LGBT Christmas romance for the first time and hoped to see something else with more depth to the characters that represent me.