When someone claims to be an expert on dating, run away. Especially if they are single themselves. Ugh, let’s look at The Holiday Dating Guide anyway.

Abigale (Maria Menounos) is a dating coach who is trying to get her new book, The Holiday Dating Guide, published. In order to make it happen, her publisher wants her to find a date to bring to their big Christmas Eve party in twelve days. She happens to meet Michael (Brent Bailey) at a coffee shop and sets her eyes on him. Will she be able to pull it off while following her own rules?

This was such a terrible movie. The plot is that Abigale made all of these stupid rules for dating then, when she actually attempted to date someone, realized how stupid the rules were and broke every single one of them. Meanwhile, she was actually coaching someone to follow her stupid rules. Rules like - don’t see someone two days in a row. Seriously.

No, do not watch The Holiday Dating Guide. There is nothing redeeming in this movie except for maybe the dog that is only in the first 15 minutes. You can turn it off after that.

What? Women can do home renovations too? Why didn’t anyone tell me?

Sam (Jana Kramer) is a designer on a home renovation show. When she doesn’t nab the coveted Christmas special spot on the network, she goes back home to renovate an inn that was damaged in a recent storm. Jack (Steve Vinovich), the owner of the inn, pairs her up with her ex-boyfriend, Coop (Ryan McPartlin), to get the work done before the Christmas Eve Harborfest.

The Holiday Fix Up is yet another movie that is perfectly fine. Neither of the lead actors are amazing. They aren’t terrible though Kramer is dull and McPartlin is a bit wooden. I wish that there was some sort of magic that happened between them…but there isn’t. They aren’t quite the most unlikely couple in this year’s Christmas haul. But they are close.

Unfortunately, there isn’t anything in the movie that saves. it. There is a weird slow-motion snowball fight that maybe somebody somewhere likes. Personally, I don’t understand it. They could have just let the actors go and filmed that. It might have made it more interesting.

Should you watch it? Probably not. But you aren’t going to be mad if you do. You might wonder what exactly happened in the 90 minutes it took to watch (assuming you don’t count commercials) but I doubt you’ll get mad about the lost time. It’s a good procrastination movie. You know - “Oh, I should do the dishes but this movie is on….”