Hey, Lifetime. If you are going to call your movie Dancing Through The Snow, I’m expecting dancing. And I will be very disappointed if there is no dancing.

Michael (Colin Lawrence) is a single dad to daughter, Lily (Bianca Lawrence). When he begins dating Lily’s ballet teacher, Olivia (AnnaLynne McCord), Lily has a difficult time emotionally dealing with her father’s first relationship after her mother’s death.

At it’s core, this movie wants to be about the relationship between a father and daughter after the death of the family matriarch. After all, that is why they cast a real life father and daughter in the roles of Michael and Lily, right? Unfortunately, Dancing Through The Snow doesn’t really connect the way it should. Bianca doesn’t have the acting experience to be able to fully bring Lily to life. As a result, her character is very flat. She acts the same way whether Lily is supposed to be happy or sad or jealous. It makes it difficult for the audience to think she’s nothing more than a brat. And, sadly, the main plot of the movie kinda revolves around her.

My second big problem with the movie is that the title implies there will be dancing. There is a little bit of dancing - a video of Lily and Michael dancing to the Nutcracker Suite goes viral, we see Olivia doing some stretching, and at the very end of the movie, two firefighters do a little bit of dancing with two young girls dressed as ballerinas. Oh, and Michael and Olivia slow-dance in her studio with their outside shoes on. (Hey, networks, take a note - DO NOT WEAR OUTSIDE SHOES ON DANCE FLOORS.) That is the entirety of the dancing in the movie. Hallmark did a much better job last year with Christmas Waltz. Do better, Lifetime.

I went into this movie wanting to like it and it highly disappointed me. You would do better watching last year’s Christmas Waltz on Hallmark or the Dance Dreams: Hot Chocolate Nutcracker documentary on Netflix. Leave Dancing Through The Snow off your Christmas list. It is not worth watching.

Do you think Mario Lopez knows how to not be cheesy? I think cheesy-ness must be in his DNA or something.

David (Mario Lopez) is a high school principal who also delivers packages during the holiday season. Sophie (AnnaLynne McCord) is a musician visiting her father (Herb Mendelsohn), who happens to be one of David’s customers on his delivery route. David’s daughter, Noel (Paulina Chávez), sets David up on a dating app, where he matches with Sophie.

I guess I knew Feliz NaviDAD was going to be cheesy thanks to the stupid pun in the title. I don’t think I realized just how cheesy it was going to be. David acts like one of those parents who is trying way too hard to be the “cool parent.” And, supposedly, his teenage daughter thinks he’s cool. (Reality check: No one’s teenager thinks they are a cool parent. Every teenager ever is embarrassed of their parents.) So we end up with things like - David has a ‘secret handshake’ that he does with one of the students at his school; when he first meets Sophie, he basically tells her that she must think he’s hot in his delivery uniform; he makes comments on other customers’ holiday decorations. Just a bunch of very cringy things.

There, honestly, isn’t a whole lot to talk about in this movie. If you have seen a Mario Lopez movie, chances are you already know how this one is going to go. Unless you have a serious crush on Slater from Saved By The Bell, skip Feliz NaviDAD. You’ll thank me for it.