Last year, we saw Asa Butterfield and Cora Kirk in Amazon Prime’s Your Christmas Or Mine?. This year there is a sequel: Your Christmas Or Mine 2. Do we think it will do the original justice?

James (Butterfield) and Hayley (Kirk) are going on a Christmas skiing vacation in Austria with both of their families. Of course things get a little mixed up at first but they are quickly resolved. However, can their families really spend this much time together and not argue?

The first movie was cute. This movie wasn’t as cute. Instead of the movie being about showing James and Hayley how the other grew up and spent their lives, all we see is a rich family upset that they are in “poor people” accommodations while the middle class family parties it up in the “rich people” resort. It felt less like seeing the other side of the tracks and more like taking advantage of an obvious mistake. And, once again, the conflicts could have been solved by having simple conversations throughout the trip. Instead, they don’t say anything and just blow up at the end. I know this is a Christmas movie but it feels like a couple that is going to get married then get divorced pretty quickly.

Rating: Watch the first but not the second

To be honest, I didn’t even have Your Christmas Or Mine? on my list of movies this year. I do have some other Amazon original movies on the list. I’m not sure how I missed this one.

James (Asa Butterfield) and Hayley (Cora Kirk) have just recently started dating. As they get on their respective trains to go to their respective houses for Christmas, they both make the rash decision to switch trains to surprise the other. Unfortunately, that means that James ends up at Hayley’s family house without Hayley and Hayley ends up at James’s family house without James. They learn way more about each other than they had planned.

Your Christmas Or Mine? was a nice little twist on The Gift Of The Magi story. They both wanted to surprise each other but it wasn’t the surprise they were expecting. And while both families are complete opposites, both James and Hayley had a lasting effect on each of them. My husband didn’t like the movie as much as I did but sometimes he gets nitpicky with Christmas movies.

This one is a nice Christmas movie to watch. It has a little more Christmas and a little less romance as the Hallmark/Lifetime movies but I appreciated the differences. If you are looking for something a little bit different and a little bit British, this would do nicely.