HBO has taken the Christmas movie trope and turned it into it’s very own Christmas movie - A Hollywood Christmas. I’m not sure about making a movie about a movie trope is any good though…

Jessica (Jessika Van) is a successful movie director who specializes in Christmas movies. When the network decides to get rid of their Christmas movie department altogether, they bring in Christopher (Josh Swickard) to look over the finances of the movie Jessica is currently filming. Jessica’s assistant, Reena (Anissa Borrego), relies on good old Christmas movie tropes to help Jessica get through these troubling times.

There isn’t a lot for me to say about A Hollywood Christmas. While the acting is decent, the rest of the movie is…well, expected. We all know what the Christmas movie tropes are. There is no need for us to be walked through them. Yet that is exactly what this movie does. Reena literally explains each and every trope either right before or right after it happens, which kinda ruins the humor of a Christmas movie having Christmas movie tropes during filming. This movie should be funny. It’s not.

To be honest, A Hollywood Christmas isn’t worth sitting through. I kept waiting for something new to happen or for something funny to happen. Then the movie ended. You might as well watch any Christmas movie and get the same result. Except that there are some good Christmas movies out there! Though it’s getting more and more difficult to find them.