Maddie is tired of being the one to deliver bad news on the newspaper she works at, specially now at Christmas time. So, her sisters convinces her to go in this "Tiger Cruise" a four day cruise for military families. There, she meets Billy, a lieutenant who doesn't appreciate Christmas.
You know exactly how this goes from the first scene. Maddie and Billy embark on an adventure. She decides to pursue a story about a couple, Dorothy and Sam, a "story about love and war". They have their own problems. She doesn't want a military life and he wants her/is nick-named "the grinch". But while they are together they have a great time.
My take of both Jen Lilley and Trevor Donovan is the same. I may love their performance of a movie and hate it on the next one. But I liked both of them on this one. They had good chemistry. I found myself rooting for them.
I also liked the pace of the movie. The couple of last movies I watched were unbearable, and I kept pausing them every 10 minutes but I didn't with this one. The story grabbed me from the first moment (even knowing how it would end). Not being American has its advantages, I did not if technical/navy things were accurate or not and I didn't care either.
Overall, it's a nice movie, it's exactly what the plot promises.
