A Royal Christmas Match

It seems almost a rule that the lead protagonists start out as antagonistic. In this movie Ben is so rude to Camille during her teaching that I'm amazed she was civil with him. This lasts through a considerable portion of the movie. Then it disappears almost instantly. One would think that much of the remaining part of the movie would be Camille and Ben developing a romance, but that's not so. Much of the latter portion of the movie is about Morgana and university politics. It includes a vindictive duchess.

All movies need to have some conflict. The conflict in this movie is unusual for what one would expect is a romantic Christmas movie. And the conflict is dissolved by some hocus pocus which is manufactured totally out of the blue. It might as well have been Santa appearing and granting a wish. It has almost no lead in.

The acting is fair to poor. The dialogue is fair. The romance is almost as poorly executed as the climax. Other than a lot of snow and a Christmas tree, the movie has little to do with Christmas.

Jeers to another reviewer who gives full out spoilers without marking them but at least you have to expand the text to get to them. It's fine if you hate the movie, but that doesn't justify untagged spoilers.