Pretty Good

Absolutely the worst movie.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

...with its virtues and sins. nice, seductive, familiar, boring. predictable in large lines. and nothing surprising. that is all. no new things, an exercise of war between the women from the life of a young man, moral lesson and not credible situations. and a new sort of modern fairy tale, perfect for a precise target, nice for many of its viewers.

When I saw that Brooke D'Orsay was the star, I was excited because I thought she was a powerful character in Royal Pains. And as the movie started out, it looked like this would be another chance to see a wonderful woman similar to Paige from Royal Pains. But the movie was boring. Most of it was about wedding planning. There was an attempt to set up a daughter-in-law/mother-in-law conflict. But that conflict was muddled. There are other details I didn't like, but expanding on them gives away too much. In some ways this was not your typical Hallmark movie. There were no competing love interests and the leads started out in love (having had a two year uninterrupted relationship). The male lead was a virtual non-entity. I don't blame D'Orsay for the shortcomings because I think she did the best she could with the script.

June in January is another Hallmark chick flick which comes out with a cookie cutter plot and some bland but good looking leads and a small budget.Alex is a rising lawyer and from a wealthy family. June always planned a dream wedding with her late mother in June. However a job in another city means that they bring forward the wedding to January and have only a few days to plan the wedding. The cog in the wheel is Alex's mother (Marilu Henner) who has her own wedding agenda and shuts out June, she is aided by her new assistant who carries a torch for Alex.Alex takes little interest in the wedding planning, eventually realises that her mother is domineering and he is at risk of losing his bride. After a brief showdown, the mother eventually has a change of heart.The film is breezy and inoffensive. Its also very predictable and not very good. The director shows little flair, the script is by the numbers.

Brooke D'Orsay is getting married to Wes Brown in only a few weeks and she has a wedding to plan. She turns into Bridezilla and freaks out when future mother-in-law Marilu Henner tries to help because not every detail is just as she imagined it would be.This is a movie quite evidently aimed at women. Mr. Brown doesn't care about the details of their wedding and neither do I. This makes Miss D'Orsay's mania obnoxious. Since I did not care about Miss D'Orsay, I do not care about the details of her wedding, Mr. Brown's is a handsome but rather bland character and even the old pros don't give me much of interest, even though they turn obnoxious in order to give some sense of dramatic conflict to the movie.By the time that happens and the inevitable crisis occurs, I had lost interest and expect that every man whose girlfriend makes him watch will do likewise. I also believe that a lot of women who believe that a wedding is a nice party and that it's the marriage that counts will feel the same.