Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

Softwing Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Scotty Burke It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

Staci Frederick Blistering performances.

Davis P Yes, this movie is kind of cheasy and cliché, but it's very cute and fun to sit and enjoy. Melissa Joan Hart is really great as the lead, and carries the whole movie well. Also, Mario Lopez is really great in his role and looks good doing it!! The movie has a lot of laugh out loud humor throughout. The script is cheesy at times, but overall it's cute and entertaining. The romance is well done and satisfying here. Also I loved all the actors and the characters in the movie. They all were funny and charming when they needed to be. And I really love how they treated the one gay character in the movie and how they showed complete love and acceptance. I'm so happy that ABC family worked that in because that's true family values. This movie honestly has some very hilarious moments where I was laughing out loud. Overall, this movie is just plain holiday fun! So sit down and enjoy Merry Christmas! Ten out of 10

Matthew McNaughton Now, this is a TV movie, so it's given certain graces like having a limited audience and unsurprising expectations of mediocrity, so I can't belittle it too much. But it's just so thrown together and sloppy. Melissa Joan Hart of "Sabrina" fame starts off with an abysmal perm, and of course she's a struggling artist who waitresses part-time. But then it's all aboard the train to Crazyville. Somehow her parents believe her and not the loony man she brought. The guy (Mario Lopez) then decides that it would be a good idea to make her family fall in love with him. The big reveal is when he fake proposes to her (which he was originally was going to do to his girlfriend when he was kidnapped). I definitely can't say it's that bad; it's just weird five ways to Friday and shouldn't be taken too seriously.

statuskuo This movie caught me by surprise. Everything about the story hangs heavy on Melissa Joan Hart...and she has just the right amount of charm and self-effacing humor to carry this outrageous (and obviously improbable) story.It begins with Hart's character Trudy, preparing herself for a holiday with her parents, who are played wonderfully by Markie Post (who has brilliant comedic timing...since her "Night Court" days, you can sense she wants to break a more un-coventional sweet prude roles like her spin in "Theres Something About Mary") here she plays it for more frustrated means. A boiling pot, seethes before it explodes. She is runs on a time clock no one else can live up to. And Timothy Bottoms, whose ultra-conservative view points has him looking like George W. Seemed like he wants his daughters to take life more seriously, which is actually a great message, since most conservatives turn their mates into suffering housewives (refer back to Markie Post).So Trudy works at a diner owned by a Hindu Indian. The odd characters prepare you for the attitude you MUST bring with you into this story (remember "Tremors"?...same director). Trudy has just been dumped by her boyfriend. You see the dude and we clearly see that he is everything her parents want. And not remotely sensible to her personality. Trudi's overbearing mother demands that she meet her mate. My guess, and is parroted, that they just hope she isn't a lesbian. She is publicly humiliated at the diner. And left in emotional pieces. Enter David Martin (played considerably low key by Mario Lopez). She kidnaps him an takes him on an adventure with his parents.A similar story came to mind while I was watching this..."Buffalo 66". It was a harder edge version of this movie. And, it has an equally down-n-out character trying to live up to the expectation of overbearing parents during the holidays.Trudy's buoyancy is so endearing you also wish for her to just do good with her life. You know she will find a way, even after this enormous twist of fate that has drawn these two people together.Yes, it's sometimes cornball. Some moments get real serious. As when Trudy finally acknowledges David is not who he seems to be. Or when everyone reveals themselves. But the great touch of director Ron Underwood is that he never gets to the point where we can't have a laugh. Well-deserved laugh. The language and situations, if MPAA rated, probably would've given them a PG-13 rating. But...it's just so cutesy, you can't help yourself from liking all involved. These are sincere people. Yes, you know the ending, but it's a really good journey.

Rozinda You may find this funny or you may like wonder at the intelligence of all involved in this tripe.Lopez is one of those actresses who acts loopy very well, and loopy this character is. Needs a boyfriend. Hers has dumped her just as she's taking him off home for Christmas to intro to desperate parents longing for her to settle down. When you see what happens in the rest of the film, you understand very well why he dumped her - he got out while the going was good. So Lopez abducts at gunpoint some bloke she encounters in a restaurant. She lashes him to car seat. At her family home which is in the back of a snow-swamped beyond, he tries desperately to get them to help him escape but they all think he's got a wild sense of humour and hasn't their girl found a great guy etc. You can now see that her family's as insane as she is and all this indicates to any normal man that this is not a family you should ever get involved with.The guy eventually gives up trying to escape given that no-one will help him, every effort he makes is thwarted. At this stage I started jumping through the recording, picking up on the odd moments that indicate he gradually gets to like these lunatics and especially the ghastly heroine.Well, each to his or her own, and perhaps these idiots are his type. I can see too that some people will find this movie great fun so I wouldn't disagree the varying reports on this website of it. You can see it as hilarious farce or as pathetic rubbish, take your pick. But I would suggest you don't attempt to buy the DVD before you've seen the movie and decided if you can stomach it as if you can't that DVD will soon be in the bin. I love real farce, but in my view this is such staggeringly inept farce that you could include it the list of movies so ghastly that they are almost funny.