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Summary: Surprising amount of Sexual Content
Comment: I'm not sure why ABC Family thought that this movie is appropriate for kids. This is not a movie I could show at my family's "Christmas Movie Marathon" party due to the sexual innuendo/content. I would give this movie a PG-13 rating.
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Summary: Simple, Unrealistic but cute and fun
Comment: This is a typical mindless Christmas for fun movie. It has no redeeming or deeply hidden lesson / theme but it is simplistically amusing and fun if you are in the mood for simple cute fun.
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Summary: Not for the WHOLE family
Comment: I was really excited to get this for Christmas. I normally love ABC Family movies. I was really disappointed in how many sexual references and innuendos were made in this movie. This was not a movie for the whole family. I would not want my kids watching it, and don't even want to see it again myself.
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Summary: Very cute movie! LOVED IT!
Comment: Cute story, cute ending, happy ending and very fun to keep up with. Cute chick flick.
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Summary: Twisted but fun
Comment: This is a funny holiday flick if you aren't too stuck on a "Family" movie. As other reviews noted, Melissa Joan Hart plays a girl desperate to bring her great boyfriend home to show her family how successful she is. Right at the moment her career is not great so the boyfriend is all she feels she has. Unfortunately, successful boy dumps her right before traveling to the family home and she, well, loses it, and kidnaps random stranger - Mario Lopez.
Part of the fun is that Melissa Joan Hart's character manages to keep Lopez kidnapped for about a day or so because the entire idea of a woman doing this is so insane, all she need do is tell people it is a game the two love birds like to play. Also after about a day it is clear that Lopez character is no longer concerned about being kidnapped and decides to go with it. Thus, making it a little more believable that this sort of thing could happen. After all, she kidnapped him to a loving family gathered in a plush Christmas cabin. But if you are going to watch a movie called Christmas in handcuffs, maybe reality isn't what you are looking for.
I thought the side plots were somewhat pointless but meant to show that the rest of the family were having just as many problems as the main character. What sells this is Hart and Lopez. Good chemistry, and Hart's character does regret what she did after the initial insanity has worn off but has little choice but to keep the charade up.
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