6/10
"Right now you're just a drunk man with a souvenir keyring."
20 December 2023
Warning: Spoilers
I didn't know this was a sequel until a few minutes into it when I did a quick rewind. Then I saw the '2' tagged on to the title. Since I was in holiday watching mode with my wife, we decided to stay the course and view the entire thing. I can't say it was all that bad, but the story didn't do anything for me other than bring back to mind an Alpine vacation taken back in 1977 right after getting married. Our tour took us within visual distance of the massive ski jump at Innsbruck, Austria during the 1964 Olympic games. I was looking for it here but it didn't show up. The story has two disparate families taking a holiday vacation, one rich and one of moderate means, while getting their hotel destinations mixed up with each arriving at the other's accommodations. If it sounds like a TV sitcom, that's about the way it played out. You could say both families had their embarrassing members, with each of the main characters involved in a relationship that gets challenged during the story. Of course it all gets worked out for the desired and expected happy ending, even though I didn't really see any real chemistry between James (Asa Butterfield) and Hayley (Cora Kirk). Not to spoil things for potential viewers, this was an OK film but there are much better Christmas movies out there. If you tune in, you might spend the whole movie trying to figure out if the Hughes grandfather is Willie Nelson or not.
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