Christmas Cupcakes

A cute, low budget Canadian film led by the always pleasing Cindy Busby and Erin Karpluk trying to keep their father's struggling bakery open. Diana-Marie Stolz, who I had never seen before, has a nice turn as an old lady who regularly buys Remo Bakery's egg bread. I also never recognized Heartland's Social Services officer Clint (Greg Lawson) as the pompous Chef Paolo until I looked him up here.

One word of warning, if you are looking for Christmas feels, this isn't the film. Except for a couple of minor references, this film could have been set at Labour Day for all it mattered.

It is silly and unbelievable - but I watch it every Christmas! A great bit of escapism. The Uncle is probably the best actor and the nasty baker is a fun character.

Who doesn't love tv christmas movies? We just seen it as a family and we loved it. Good acting, quality production and the ending was perfect. A solid christmas movie, would recommend.

This started out as this sweet little movie about two sisters trying to save their family bakery and their moms house after their father's death. And then they entered a baking contest led by someone like "the most interesting man in the world", except as the judge of a baking show. It was absolutely ridiculous and I loved it.

Or to use a metaphor more appropriate to this movie - not my flavor of cupcake.

This movie hit all my negative buttons, so take my review with a grain of salt. I hate cooking contest shows. I hate the premise where where the protagonists have to win a contest to save the bakery. (It's a little like counting on the lottery.) I don't care for this style of humor which heavily uses vicious sniping and melodrama. It's a matter of personal preference.

Is this a Christmas romance movie? It barely touches on Christmas. And if you measure by screen time, the main romance is with the bakery rather than between Gina and Nick. Even the sisters' relationship takes up more than Nick and Gina.

I anticipated the ending to the contest, if only by a bit. I'm sure I'm not the only one.