This review was supposed to be posted yesterday. However, every time I tried to sit down and watch My Sweet Holiday (also known as Chocolate Covered Christmas), I wanted to rip my eyeballs out. It’s a movie that starts out bad and keeps getting worse as it goes on.
Sadie (Malone Thomas) is a marketing associate who returns home for Christmas when her boyfriend decides to stay in Europe for the season. Alex (Jason Burkey) is buying the chocolate store owned by Sadie’s parents. It’s up to Sadie to teach him the business before he takes over on January first.
There is a lot wrong with this movie. The script is terrible, the acting is cringeworthy, and the overall look of the film is awful. Every time there is a scene change, there is a weird montage of the location of the next scene. Going to a coffee shop? A montage of making coffee. Is the scene inside the chocolate shop? A montage of making chocolate. Instead of adding something to the movie, it makes it drag a lot.
On one hand, I’m glad that this is the last of the Lifetime/Hallmark movies for the 2020 season. On the other hand, I’m angry that Lifetime aired it at all. It is a terrible movie with a terrible script and a terrible cast and a terrible director. Don’t watch it. Don’t let any of your friends watch it. Let’s try to eradicate it from the world.