When I saw Scouting For Christmas on Hallmark’s schedule, I wondered if it was a movie about Girl Scouts. A Girl Scout-adjacent youth organization involved but I wouldn’t say the movie is about them. It actually makes me hate the title a bit.
Angela (Tamera Mowry-Housley) is a single mom working as a realtor. Her daughter, Brooklyn (Audrey Wise Alvarez), is in a scout troop that is having a posh holiday ball fundraiser. Brooklyn suggests they get her favorite bakery, owned by William (Carlo Marks), to cater the event…and also get William to escort her mom to the ball. Little do they know that Dakota (James Paladino), Angela’s ex and Brooklyn’s father, will randomly show up to throw a wrench in everything.
Ugh, for a movie that is titled for scouting, it was so boring. There was no actual scouting done in the movie. There wasn’t even any real estate agenting done! Come to think of it, I don’t think we saw any baking either! All of these people have jobs or hobbies that we don’t see them do, we’re just told they do them. And that makes for a very boring movie. No one wants to see people standing or sitting around talking in various locations. We want to see them doing things. Having fun. Being actual human people. The more I think about it, the more I dislike this movie. I’m glad it’s so early in the season.
Rating: Can we have a movie with actual scouting in it?