I’m sorry but Christmas CEO is a terrible title. Who would want to watch a movie about a stuffy CEO? I hope the movie is better than the title.

Chris (Marisol Nichols) is the CEO of a small toy company. She gets an offer to merge her company with a mega toy company but she needs her former business partner, Joe (Paul Greene), to sign off. Joe thinks Chris is money-hungry and Chris thinks Joe didn’t care about growing their business. Can Chris convince him to sign off on the merger in time?

Ugh. Christmas CEO is just as bad as the title. As Joe thought, Chris did turn the fun little toy company into a wanna-be soulless corporation. Their toys don’t take into consideration what kids want. They only think about the newest, flashiest stuff, whether kids would actually want to play with them or not. It isn’t until Chris’s niece, Emma (Veronica Marin-Estrada), tells her that her new toys are boring that Chris realizes her toys suck.

All of the interesting parts of the story are completely glossed over. There’s a sub-plot about Emma trying to become a singer/songwriter. She does get to play the Christmas song she wrote but, beyond that, we only see her playing the guitar once. (And, really, she’s not playing it. She’s sitting on a bed holding it.) It would have been nice if she had some more musical scenes. Emma is supposedly auditioning for a solo. Why don’t we see her practicing for it? Instead, we get tossed back into corporate drama. Kathleen (Barbara Eve Harris), the outgoing CEO of the mega toy company, keeps pressing Chris to get Joe’s signature. That is almost ALL that Kathleen talks about. SHUT UP, KATHLEEN.

In case you can’t tell, I don’t think you should watch Christmas CEO. It’s dumb. Why did anyone think this was a good idea?