Sadly Over-hyped

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

A friend of mine recommended this film to me. I am glad I took his advice. This film was very good and it's one of the better Christmas Television Films I have ever seen. In this film a Trudie (Melissa Joan Hart) is an aspiring painter working as a restaurant waitress. With the pressure to please her parents (Timothy Bottoms and Markie Post) building, she misses a job interview and gets dumped by her boyfriend just before Christmas, and she has a nervous breakdown. Stressed about going home for the holidays without a boyfriend, she kidnaps David Martin (Mario Lopez), a random customer at the restaurant in which she works and introduces him to her parents as her boyfriend, Nick. Lots of great moments and so well made. If you want a great comedy to watch you won't go wrong watching this!

I marked "contains spoilers" because there's no way not to spoil this movie in a review. In fact, you will have it all figured out in the first 5 minutes anyway, so it's really just about watching it all play out.Watch Slater from Saved by the Bell get kidnapped at gunpoint by an insane Sabrina the teenage witch and be held hostage in a secluded cabin with her clueless family that ignore his constant, desperate pleas for help. Watch as Sabrina's family fall in love with Slater within the first 3 minutes of meeting him - even though the explanation for his hysterical cries of kidnapping are due to a serious anxiety problem that, if true, would put any reasonable person on alert immediately - as they rationalize away the huge amount of evidence that their daughter's new romance isn't all that it seems.Bask in the spirit of the holidays while watching insane Sabrina's family - frisky drunken Grandma obviously included - and Slater's terrible girlfriend act out every cliché b-story from the past decade in the background of this extremely predictable "love story".If you are a fan of horrible acting, embarrassing dialogue, predictably bad writing and inappropriate sexy bondage jokes delivered by the creepiest gas station attendant this side of the Hills Have Eyes then you and your family are in for a holiday treat. I am a fan of the above and loved this movie. It was so bad that after watching, I immediately started calling my friends and family to spread the love so we could all laugh together. It was truly awful. Slater's acting is indescribably bad. I am making this movie a holiday tradition in my home.

This movie is a great chick flick. I definitely recommend it. Melissa Joan Hart as the main actress did a great job in the beginning when it opens up as she is doing her hair you can tell that she is going somewhere important. Melissa Joan Hart is also on a TV series Melissa and Joey, also Sabrina the teenage witch. She started out as a young actress and is now very famous.Mario Lopez who is the main actor in this movie did a great job. He is originally famous for saved by the bell. In this movie you got to see him as a mature grown business man getting ready to propose to his girlfriend. When Melissa takes him by surprise and kidnaps him so that he can play her fake boyfriend is a great story line.The storyline provides great chemistry between the actors and actresses and the ending took me by surprise. It was so cute.The supporting actors and actresses did a good job. The parents didn't really act like normal parents. They just went with whatever they're daughter said about her boyfriend. But the fact that she had to lie about her boyfriend just to please her parent is sad.

You may find this funny or you may like wonder at the intelligence of all involved in this tripe.Lopez is one of those actresses who acts loopy very well, and loopy this character is. Needs a boyfriend. Hers has dumped her just as she's taking him off home for Christmas to intro to desperate parents longing for her to settle down. When you see what happens in the rest of the film, you understand very well why he dumped her - he got out while the going was good. So Lopez abducts at gunpoint some bloke she encounters in a restaurant. She lashes him to car seat. At her family home which is in the back of a snow-swamped beyond, he tries desperately to get them to help him escape but they all think he's got a wild sense of humour and hasn't their girl found a great guy etc. You can now see that her family's as insane as she is and all this indicates to any normal man that this is not a family you should ever get involved with.The guy eventually gives up trying to escape given that no-one will help him, every effort he makes is thwarted. At this stage I started jumping through the recording, picking up on the odd moments that indicate he gradually gets to like these lunatics and especially the ghastly heroine.Well, each to his or her own, and perhaps these idiots are his type. I can see too that some people will find this movie great fun so I wouldn't disagree the varying reports on this website of it. You can see it as hilarious farce or as pathetic rubbish, take your pick. But I would suggest you don't attempt to buy the DVD before you've seen the movie and decided if you can stomach it as if you can't that DVD will soon be in the bin. I love real farce, but in my view this is such staggeringly inept farce that you could include it the list of movies so ghastly that they are almost funny.