I really wish Hallmark (and all of the other channels) would pick better names for their movies. And don’t tell me that Hallmark has no say in the titles. They have renamed movies before. Christmas in Harmony sounds nice until you realize that there was a 2018 Lifetime movie called Christmas Harmony and that the female lead in this movie is named Harmony. This is less the title of a Hallmark movie and more the title of an X-rated film.

Harmony (Ashleigh Murray) was just fired from her job at a music publishing company. When she goes home for Christmas, she runs into her ex-boyfriend, Kyle (Luke James). The exes get talked into co-directing the local church choir for the annual Christmas fundraising concert. Harmony’s big name client, Melo D (Michelle Williams), is having trouble getting to their small town to help save the church. Kyle tricks Harmony into singing the big solo herself, giving her the self-confidence she needs to become a singer on her own.

While this is yet another movie that doesn’t really have anything to say, Harmony at least offers some nice music. If anything, the problem with the movie is that there isn’t enough music. With a title like Christmas in Harmony and promo graphics with music notes all over, you should be begging them to stop singing. Instead, the chorus sings a few times, Kyle performs part of a song, Melo D (which is a dumb name) tries a piece of a song, and there’s the finale where Harmony sings a song then everyone sings a song together. That may sound like a lot of music but it’s really not. We see more about the crappy world of music publishing than we do hearing music.

With all of that said, it is a pretty decent movie. Just pretend it’s called something else. Harmony of Christmas would have been better and sounded less pornographic. Or maybe The Harmony in Christmas. Just be sure to leave me a comment with your name for the movie.