Sometimes I think Great American Family gets joy from messing around with their Christmas movies. After they released their movie schedule for the season, they changed it at the last minute. On top of that, we have a Christmas movie that is a sequel to a non-Christmas movie that was released in January 2023. Well, let’s see what we can get out of A Christmas Castle Proposal.

Writer Olivia (Rhiannon Fish) is dating Prince Alexander of Torovia (Mitchell Bourke). Unfortunately, their busy schedules haven’t given them very much time together. Planning to propose to Olivia, Prince Alexander invites her family to Torovia for their holiday banquet. When they arrive, Olivia finds out that she has also been assigned some royal duties, giving the couple even less time alone. Maybe they aren’t meant to be together after all.

As I was watching Proposal, I thought it was refreshing that this was a Christmas movie about an already established couple and not a commoner woman chasing after an ideal royal. Then I found out this is a sequel and the “chase” movie came out last year after the 2022 Christmas movie season. On the plus side, that means I didn’t have to sit through the annoyances of first dates with princes.

To be honest, I found the movie quite charming. Sure, there were still a lot of things that could have been solved with a simple conversation but that is almost always at the core of these types of movies. I’m more thankful that they didn’t ramp up the princeness of Alexander. For the most part, he was a pretty normal guy with a rather demanding job and a giant house. It was a nice change of pace.

Rating: Maybe next time leave the families at home and have Christmas by yourselves.