Where does one begin when they are trying to write a review? Well it would be staring at the computer and looking up synonyms to words that are not so nice. I wanted to love Melt My Heart This Christmas, but honestly I fell asleep three times in watching the movie and I don’t really do that. Hallmark, I do love you. I just really don’t know what to say here.
I will blame the casting.
The movies, starring Stephen Huszar and Laura Vandervoort. In the movie, “Glassblower, Holly, seizes a last-minute chance to assist her idol at a famed Christmas market. Holly must navigate the icy disapproval of Jack.”
Simple enough, right? Now, I love a good enemy to love trope, but the issue is that Huszar and Vandervoort have a limited amount of onscreen chemistry. That and the character of Bianca is so ick and miserable – she makes Scrooge look like a catch.
I love a Scrooge character that finds their way, but this one was just miserable. No matter how much she changed, I couldn’t care about her. I wanted to shut her off, and I guess that is why my mind said sleep.
Hey, the naps were good.
THAT IS A NO
Holly wants to be in the Christmas Market so badly and Jack keeps turning her down. Not sure why, but Jack is really rude about everything. He wants the fair to succeed, but he doesn’t even want to look at her stuff. He’s made her feel less than the artist that she is.
However as she brings her stuff to the event, she meets her hero – Bianca. Apparently she’s the great glass blower and her art has set the standard. Holly is taken a back and agrees to be Bianca’s assistant – if Jack puts her in the emerging artists booth.
He agrees and she agrees to be Bianca’s assistant. Jack is cold and distant to her. He’s not sure that he can trust her but he agrees because he wants the fair to succeed and feels that he needs Biance to make that happen.
So, Holly drops her stuff off at the emerging artists booth and goes on about her time at the fair.
THIS IS WRONG
Being an assistant isn’t easy, but Holly is ready to rise to the occasion. She’s willing to put up with anything and doesn’t care who or what is thrown at her. She knows that Bianca is trying to find herself and has lost her confidence. She’s staring at her, wondering why Bianca has lost all of her confidence.
Bianca is miserable. She’s legitimately the worst. Her art is kinda mid and that’s being generous. I do feel for her that she’s lost her confidence. We’ve all been there. However, Holly is doing everything she can to make Bianca look good. She just doesn’t understand why Bianca isn’t willing to move forward. Instead she’s stuck making things that aren’t her style, because of one reporter.
But Bianca doesn’t know how to find her own confidence. Things get worse for her when VERRE sells out before her and no one knows who this person is. I mean, the viewer does – it’s Holly. Bianca wants to know who it is and no one is giving her answers.
But then again, I am wondering why she wants that answer anyways. Bianca is doing everything to not let anyone close and be a miserable woman – what will knowing who someone is change anything?
SOLD OUT & HOT SPOT
VERRE keeps making ornaments and selling out – quickly. Holly is having to be Bianca’s assistant, restock VERRE, and try to maintain relationships. It’s difficult. But VERRE is the talk of the town because it keeps selling out.
I don’t know why it is that it’s a competition. Shouldn’t people be proud? Or like lets address jealousy? It’s a lot to deal with – the mixed emotions of of feeling less than. I just didn’t get why it was that Holly feels the need to keep a secret.
You are who you are. Like embrace that.
I get that she is scared, but I also don’t understand how she thinks that she may be rejected by telling the truth. She instead decides that keeping her secret is worth sacrificing trust for.
Secrets have a way of rising to the top. The success that VERRE is having a moment – you won’t be able to keep that forever.
TO THE TOP
Bianca is so miserable and doesn’t like that VERRE is outselling her. So she says that she’s going to do this big drop right before Christmas. Oh Bianca, you crazy. You could solve this if you’d stop being weird and just talk to the reporter Walter.
Bianca needs to just find her own spark.
Instead, when she figures out who VERRE is and that she’s her assistant. She reads her the riot act in front of everyone. Don’t think that Jack was there to try and defend her or be there for her. No way – he was reading the riot act too.
I feel as though everyone was over reacting and I wasn’t shocked. It was on par for the movie. Everyone was hurt. People were not listening to each other and it was going to take a lot to get it back on track. Leave it to social media to make that happen.
A live with Bianca puts everything back on the right track. The market goes viral, and I am still bored, but was thankful it was over.
OTHER THOUGHTS
- The glass blowing was cool
- I really wanted to feel good about the movie because I love a Christmas market, but it wasn’t something I felt good about – but I appreciated the way I got some naps in
- I hate writing bad reviews, but here we are
