It's November and you know what that means? No, not Thanksgiving. No, not Black Friday. Ughhh no, not winter is coming, besides Game of Thrones is done anyway. Well, I guess it's not really done as they are working on the spin-off but regardless, no. November means Netflix starts cranking out the Christmas movies. While many will gravitate towards Hallmark or Lifetime for their plethora of Christmas movies they offer, I just like to stick with Netflix as quite frankly that's all the holiday cheer I can handle.
Netflix had so much holiday goodness for us this year they started in late October with the movie romantic comedy Holidate. While not dealing with Christmas exclusively, instead focusing on a relationship of Emma Roberts and Luke Bracey's characters who to avoid being awkwardly single around the Holidays agreed to platonically be each other's plus ones for a year.
Then last weekend kicked into Christmas overdrive with the painfully dull quasi-romantic comedy that was neither very romantic or funny, Operation Christmas Drop. This film was about a military humanitarian mission to deploy Christmas around Guam while the commanding officer has to defend the mission to someone from DC who is looking for a cost cutting reason to shut this down while falling in love.
This weekend sees Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey, a bizarre but toe tapping movie about a toymaker (Forrest Whitaker) and his granddaughter making a new invention after being stabbed in the back by his apprentice (Keegen-Michael Key) who stole his most prized creation. It's a dash of Mr. Magorium's Wonder Imporium mixed in a Christmas musical blender that never really makes sense but manages to be somewhat endearing.
On Thursday, November 19, we finally get the long awaited sequel to the Vanessa Hudgens and Netflix take on The Prince and the Pauper, The Princess Switch. Hudgens plays a normal girl from Chicago who also happens to have an exact look-a-like who is the Duchess of Montenero who switch roles upon stumbling into each other so the Duchess can have a few days so she can be out of the spotlight. This time they get switched... again as a third Vanessa Hudgens enters the fray in The Princess Switch: Switched Again and I could not be more excited.
We get treated to a double dose of holiday magic with a rare Sunday release as Dolly Parton's Christmas on the Square also hits the streaming service on November 22. This movie is about an evil rich person who comes back to their hometown after the passing of her father to evict it's residents and sell the land to a mall developer and likely will be stopped by the town's residents, Holiday spirit, and an inspirational speech from a supernatural Dolly Parton.
We end November's Christmas barage on Thanksgiving eve with The Christmas Chronicles 2 which combines director Christopher Columbus, most popular for making the first two Harry Potter and Home Alone movies) and Kurt Russell playing Santa Claus. Columbus served as producer for the first The Christmas Chronicles but decided to step into the Director's chair for this one for first time in 5-years since the kind of underrated movie Pixels. The first movie dealt with some children who noticed Santa was at their house and jumped into Santa's slay and ended up crashing the sleigh needing to help Santa finish delivering all of Santa's presents. This time the kids need to help Santa save Christmas from a mysterious troublemaker who threatens to cancel Christmas.
Now, if you're a hardcore Netflix Christmas movie watcher you will sadly notice one massive franchise missing as there is no A Christmas Prince 4 happening this year. While as far as I can see there is no word one way or another if they are wrapping it up as a trilogy or if there is potential for a fourth movie in the series, but I definitely hope we see Rose McIver, Ben Lamb, and tons of foam snow back in our lives next November.
Hopefully that gives you a decent idea of how you can start filling your season with Holiday cheer and stuff.
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