Let It Snow (2013)

Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

A city girl not used to winter Christmases is sent to check out a resort her father is buying. There she meets the resort owner's son and you know what happens as she grows to love the snow and the resort. One good point is it seems really to have been filmed in the snow not a sound stage. Candace Cameron Bure is quite alright in this movie - not too perky not too cutesy. It is her territory the Hallmark Christmas movie. To balance things Jesse Hutch acts quite seriously so things are balanced out. Alan Thicke has a role as her father and it's quite poignant.

This is a nice Christmas story about a resort executive who can't remember much about Christmas growing up because her father and she never did anything to celebrate it. She is sent to totally remake a newly purchased resort into a young person's happening resort.Stephanie meets Brady, the son of the previous owner, who leads her through a journey of remembering what Christmas is all about. This resort has everything you would want for Christmas including several old ethnic traditions and legends.It is not surprising what happens. It is a little incredible how quickly Stephanie loses her grinchness and just takes in everything with an open heart. This includes her performing the ritual required to dream about the man she will marry.The two leads make a fine couple falling in love, including the requisite hate each other scene when they meet. Alan Thicke plays the role of the true Scrooge of a father who basically wants to bulldoze the existing facilities and start over. ****SPOILER** He even fires her for failing to follow his instructions. His reformation at the end is totally abrupt, but possibly almost believable after he reads his daughter's Santa letter which was slipped into his coat pocket before he left the resort.

Not a whole lot to say about this typical Hallmark movie. And to me that is a good thing. I'm kind of tired of the whole high-strung "grim 'n gritty super realistic" vibe of so many movies, and around Christmas I like my no-problem-everything-will-be-alright movies.Hallmark delivers on that.It's an enjoyable movie with actors that seem to really like what they are doing, and there's a constant undercurrent of a child-like happiness about Christmas. The leading lady conveys her slowly rediscovering of the joys of Christmas very well, with tons of odd 'n funny traditions thrown into one, giant basket, so to say. (just see what a "spinster" has to go through to see the man in her future in her dreams) The Vancouver locations are fantastic. Snow aplenty, no need for fake snow, unlike some other Hallmark Christmas movies, and used very effectively for a bit of physical comedy.All in all, an enjoyable (there's that word again) movie, and clean, non-convoluted entertainment.

Alan Thicke's corporation has bought the Snow Valley resort from its third generation and sends his daughter, Candace Cameron Bure, to survey it. She arrives in the middle of its Christmas season and finds love with both Jesse Hutch and the idea of Christmas in this Hallmark Channel seasonal romantic comedy.It's a nicely written movie. Mr. Hutch is oppressed by four generations of tradition, including an elaborate series of events and recipes and even regular family guests which must be rigorously followed, with no room for the changes he wants to make. Ms. Bure feels rootless and enchanted by the order and beauty she sees about her. Add in some quite lovely camera-work of the snow-drenched landscape near Vancouver, and you have a fine holiday romcom.