Perhaps I will one day watch a passable made-for-tv Christmas picture from UpTv. Today, I didn't when I decided to watch Christmas Cupcakes. As with many others of this channel, this one lacks a story and actors who are coherent. It isn't all bad. The picture indulges us with some intention camp in the final segment in which the main characters participate in a Christmas Cupcake competition. "I swam across rivers with crocodiles fleeing rebels in my country, but even that pales in comparison to the adversity you have overcome" is a real line of dialogue in this picture!
Two sisters whose names are irrelevant inherit a bakery from their late father. We assume he is an Italian immigrant. His brother is named Mario and speaks like the most stereotypical sitcom Italian man ever. This film has a real problem with vocal stereotypes. An elderly woman comes in with a vaguely Eastern Europe accent and crocodile man speaks with one too.
The bakery is in trouble. Dad had more enthusiasm as a baker than business acumen. He is in a lot of debt. The sisters decide to enter a reality TV bakeoff in order to raise $100,000 and pay off his corporate debts.
Does any of this sound Christmasy to you? It doesn't as I wrote it and that's because this is this picture has the least to do with Christmas of any picture with Christmas in its title.
The sisters have very little backstory. The viewer has the impression that the two actresses were chosen due to their different hair colors. Since one is blonde and the other brunette, you can remember who each one is. Cindy Busby and Erin Karpluk may be good actors in other films. Here they are entirely stiff and joyless. Erin's impersonation of a "Russian Spy" to check out a competitor is the most racist caricature you'll see on TV this season.
The picture is perversely enjoyable in the sense a car accident is. Sometimes you keep watching just to see what else could happen. Definitely not worth going out of your way to record like I did.
Two sisters whose names are irrelevant inherit a bakery from their late father. We assume he is an Italian immigrant. His brother is named Mario and speaks like the most stereotypical sitcom Italian man ever. This film has a real problem with vocal stereotypes. An elderly woman comes in with a vaguely Eastern Europe accent and crocodile man speaks with one too.
The bakery is in trouble. Dad had more enthusiasm as a baker than business acumen. He is in a lot of debt. The sisters decide to enter a reality TV bakeoff in order to raise $100,000 and pay off his corporate debts.
Does any of this sound Christmasy to you? It doesn't as I wrote it and that's because this is this picture has the least to do with Christmas of any picture with Christmas in its title.
The sisters have very little backstory. The viewer has the impression that the two actresses were chosen due to their different hair colors. Since one is blonde and the other brunette, you can remember who each one is. Cindy Busby and Erin Karpluk may be good actors in other films. Here they are entirely stiff and joyless. Erin's impersonation of a "Russian Spy" to check out a competitor is the most racist caricature you'll see on TV this season.
The picture is perversely enjoyable in the sense a car accident is. Sometimes you keep watching just to see what else could happen. Definitely not worth going out of your way to record like I did.