The Santa Summit is a bit like Cinderella thrown into Christmas season. Maybe masquerade parties are bad ideas…

Three teachers: Jordin (Hunter King), Ava (Amy Groening), and Stella (Stephanie Sy) decide to have some fun and maybe brighten their dreary love lives by attending this year’s Santa Summit. Since all of the participants wear Santa suits as they travel around town, Jordin has a difficult time reconnecting with the mysterious man she met at the first stop of the day. At the same time, Ava is trying to find her crush so she can confess her feelings and Stella needs to find her passion for life again. Will their Christmas dreams come true?

I wasn’t sure how I was going to like this movie at first. Stella seemed like such…well…a bitch, for a lack of a better term. She didn’t want to do anything besides go home and sleep. But the adorableness of Ava and Jordin kept me pushing through. In the end, this was a really fun jaunt that made me want to try to find a Santa Summit-esque event in my town. If only we could all have a Hallmark movie event like this in real life. It would be pretty darn awesome.

Rating: Getting down at the silent disco

A Royal Corgi Christmas is the movie I have been looking forward to this season. As a corgi owner myself, I was curious what kind of movie they would have featuring corgis. And when I saw the dreaded MarVista name in the opening credits, I was fearful this would be a terrible movie.

Cecily (Hunter King) is a dog trainer that is blowing up on YouTube. When Prince Edmond (Jordan Renzo) brings home a corgi for his mother, Queen Portia (Susannah De Wrixon), he hires Cecily to train Mistletoe in time for the Christmas ball.

I’m not going to lie. The dogs are adorable in this movie. And we are treated to more than just Mistletoe. The Queen has two other corgis - Juniper and Holly - and there is a corgi dash where we get to see a number of other dogs. Sometimes movies put ‘dog’ in their title then have the dog appear once or twice. I was not disappointed with A Royal Corgi Christmas. There was a dog in almost every scene!

So we know the dogs are all good dogs. But how about the humans? They are all decent enough. To be honest, there isn’t anything to make them stand out from their canine costars. The acting isn’t distracting nor is the script particularly terrible. However, they are all definitely outdone by the dogs.

If you are a dog lover or, more specifically, a corgi lover, you will find a lot of joy in A Royal Corgi Christmas. However, if you aren’t a dog person, this isn’t the movie for you. You would be better off finding one of the other royal Christmas movies to satisfy you.