I guess carousels are now magical. We had a time travel carousel in Christmas Comes Twice. A Carousel Christmas gives us a wish-granting carousel. Everyone needs to be more careful the next time they go to an amusement park!

Lila (Rachel Boston) and her father, Roy (Stuart Hughes), are hired by the royal family of Ancadia to restore a carousel made by Roy’s grandfather. While there, Lila pairs up with the prince, Whitaker (Neal Bledsoe), to plan a Christmas festival to gain support for an arts academy.

Besides the fact that the carousel story is stupid, there is a lot wrong with this movie. The acting is rather terrible, the rest of the plot is boring, and the conflict is dumb. If I was to look for one redeeming quality, it would be the very subtle budding romance between Roy and Heidi (Jennifer Vallance), one of the royal family’s staff members.

Don’t watch A Carousel Christmas. If you’re looking for a royal Christmas movie, there are so many better ones out there. Or, even better, let’s stop romanticizing royal families. They all kinda suck.