This may be bad. We’re barely a week into Christmas movie season and I’m already bored. At least Mystic Christmas has some animals? Well, one animal anyway.

Juniper (Jessy Schram) comes to Mystic, Connecticut for the holiday season to work at a rehabilitation center preparing a seal to be released back into the wild. A former flame, Sawyer (Chandler Massey), not only lives in Mystic but is the brother of the aquarium manager, Candace (Patti Murin). Will Juniper finally settle down or will she continue to run from her feelings?

Yeah, this movie was boring. Peppermint the seal might be the best part of the movie and she’s barely in it. Nothing really happens. It’s a lot of Juniper trying her best to avoid interaction with anyone because she’s “an introvert.” (Note: Introverts don’t hate being around people. They just need some time to themselves to recharge.) So a lot of the story revolves around people, mostly Candace, trying to get Juniper to open up to the townspeople and have fun. Which would have been fine if they made it interesting. It would have been more interesting if Juniper used the seals more to show how she interacts with animals better than humans.

Here’s to hoping we get a good movie soon. I don’t want to be bored this early in the season!

Rating: Fish out of water