Hallmark puts their name on a dozen or more Christmas movies every year now, but informed viewers are aware that they stake their reputation on maybe just one of their Christmas movies each year. Look for it around Thanksgiving. Sure, they are happy to give viewers lots of feel good Christmas movies, but there is always one marquee entry every year that you don't want to miss. For 2022 this was the one. It has all the Hallmark superlatives, and shows them off in abundance. So basically, if you have ever watched a Hallmark movie and liked it, you will like this one.
Now, there is something else. As I write this there are very few written reviews; I think there are 19. A large percentage downgrade the movie because in it they use black actors when there were actually no black members of the Rockettes at the time period depicted in the movie. There are various reasons this is supposed to be a crime, but the main reason given is that by doing so it shows Hallmark has given into political correctness. They are "woke". They have walked away from their good traditional family values. To those who give this idea credence, it is just plain wrong headed and you give those who believe in traditional family values a bad name. When the play Hamilton came out the idea of using black actors in traditional white roles was novel, but the more we have seen it the more it makes sense. We shouldn't be excluding black actors from projects because of their race if they are the right fit for the roll. You can criticize all you want if you find an actor wrong for the roll, or if anything politically correct is obviously being shoved down our throat when we just came to be entertained. Neither of those things are evident here. It's a movie. If it's made so that it looks more like what we are used to today that is no crime.
Now, there is something else. As I write this there are very few written reviews; I think there are 19. A large percentage downgrade the movie because in it they use black actors when there were actually no black members of the Rockettes at the time period depicted in the movie. There are various reasons this is supposed to be a crime, but the main reason given is that by doing so it shows Hallmark has given into political correctness. They are "woke". They have walked away from their good traditional family values. To those who give this idea credence, it is just plain wrong headed and you give those who believe in traditional family values a bad name. When the play Hamilton came out the idea of using black actors in traditional white roles was novel, but the more we have seen it the more it makes sense. We shouldn't be excluding black actors from projects because of their race if they are the right fit for the roll. You can criticize all you want if you find an actor wrong for the roll, or if anything politically correct is obviously being shoved down our throat when we just came to be entertained. Neither of those things are evident here. It's a movie. If it's made so that it looks more like what we are used to today that is no crime.
