Today we have
ANGELS AND ORNAMENTS
In Which - A Mysterious (Angel?) Character must help two music-store co-workers find love before the clock strikes midnight on Christmas Eve!
One good thing about Hallmark movies - they know they have an 84-87 minute runtime and there's not a MOMENT to spare. From the very get-go we have a quirky character who lays out in pretty plain speak that He Is An Angel and He's Here On A Mission From God (or at least, "The Man Upstairs"). Leaning into the predictive nature of these stories actually help them feel a little more honest, they ain't trying to fool you, they know what they are!
The Main Girl in this one looks so familiar and I have to IMDB her to realize she played one of the adult characters on Glee. She didn't sing on Glee. She sings here. Take that as you will.
Harold the Angel is just the right amount of Quirky and Charming as he befriends and then plays matchmaker for the Main Girl and Guy. It takes me the entire movie to figure out who he reminds me of, then I finally put it together, he's a perfect blend of Tobey Maguire and Adam Sandler, but somehow his earnest-oddball-man routine really works!
Carey did call it thought because in Act Two Harold the Angel is just a hardcore Creepy Stalker watching the main characters Discover Themselves and Their Love for Each Other through a series of peering-through-window montages.
Set in a music store and with the finale based around an original piece of music being sung at a Christmas Concert - honestly Hallmark should lean into doing musicals or musical-esque stories more often. You can cover a multitude of cheesy love story sins with a little tear-jerker music to play on the ol' heartstrings.
Best Quotes:
"You know I saw him in Macy's the other day flirting with one of those perfume spraying...harlots!"
"Cliches are important when forming a narrative - they tap into the universality of mankind!"
The Peacock App crashed during the middle of the final heartfelt monologue. Bad Form, Peacock.
This was nice, the music definitely bumped it up a few notches for me. 8 Christmas Carols out of 10.
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