Seriously? Seriously?? Christmas movie plots have reached a new low.

The Christmas Aunt is about an aunt - Rebecca (Keshia Knight Pulliam) - returning home to Nashville in order to care for her niece, Maggie (Nyla Alleyne), and her nephew, Dan (Gabriel Jacob-Cross), for two weeks leading up to Christmas.

Yes, that is the entire plot. The kids aren’t orphaned or anything. Their parents just went on vacation to Africa. And their grandmother broke her leg so she’s not supposed to drive or stand for long periods of time. Yup.

Uuuugggh, this movie was so dumb. The plot was dumb, the conflict was dumb, the acting was dumb…

When I saw the title, I was hoping that this was some magical Christmas thing. Like the kids were having some sort of problem…it could even be the parents still going away on vacation…and a magical Mary Poppins type character came in and cheered everyone up. I guess making snowflakes out of paper and glitter or baking cookies could be cheerful. It would be a lot more fun if the magical auntie made the snowflakes dance in the air or the cookies decorate themselves or something.

Instead, we get Rebecca who can’t make up her mind whether she wants to date her childhood best friend, Drew (Jarod Joseph). One minute she’s holding hands with him and giggling at everything he says. The next minute she’s reaming him for something he did years ago. What the hell, girl? Make up your mind.

Then there’s her job. When she suddenly left Los Angeles to go take care of her family, she promised that she would work remotely. We see her working, like, twice? And she feels bad both times. They also agreed that Rebecca would fly home the day after Christmas. Then suddenly the client decides to fly to LA the day before and she’s expected to just drop everything? I know that there are tough bosses out there that don’t care about their employees’ families but this was a little much.

Don’t waste your time with The Christmas Aunt. Even the boring Christmas movies were better than this one.