VidMate
Free YouTube video & music downloader
ACTOR
Alicia WittMark WiebeLawrence DaneScott Gibson
DIRECTOR
Jonathan Wright
SYNOPSICS
A Very Merry Mix-Up (2013) is a English movie. Jonathan Wright has directed this movie. Alicia Witt,Mark Wiebe,Lawrence Dane,Scott Gibson are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2013. A Very Merry Mix-Up (2013) is considered one of the best Comedy,Drama,Family,Romance movie in India and around the world.
Shop owner Alice Chapman is nervous about meeting her future in-laws at Christmas, especially because she is arriving ahead of her new fiancé, Will Mitchum. Alice's trip becomes more stressful when her luggage is lost and her phone is damaged, leaving her no way to find Will's family!
A Very Merry Mix-Up (2013) Trailers
Same Actors
A Very Merry Mix-Up (2013) Reviews
Typical Hallmark but a half step above
Hallmark follows pretty much the same story line with some slight variations. The good guys are incredibly good, the bad guys are terribly bad and there doesn't seem to be any gray areas in either group. The movie is saved by some nice performances, especially by Alicia Witt. She seems a genuinely nice person and you root for her to be happy. Of course, you pretty much know after the first 15 minutes how this will all turn out. Alice owns an antique store and somehow hooked up with a stuffy corporate type which stretches belief right off the bat as there is absolutely no chemistry between them and they apparently have nothing in common (in first 5 minutes he plunks a really cheesy artificial tree the middle of her quaint antique shop). Because of the ever-present "deal", she ends up traveling to meet his family for the first time all alone. In an incredible coincidence, she ends up meeting a man who shares the same last name as her fiancé and off we go to Hallmark World where she falls in love with a perfect but unrelated family. Once she learns the truth, she's off to the sterile mansion with the stony-faced, uptight soon-to-be in-laws. If you can't figure out what happens next then you've never seen a Hallmark movie. I found the music distracting - as a matter of fact most of the newer Hallmark movies have that issue. The music is too loud or the voices are too soft but I often miss things and have to use closed captioning. I love Christmas music but tone it down already!
Twisting from "While you were sleeping"
A charming, if predictable, holiday romance. Alicia Witt, as a sweet and artsy semi-ditz happily running her family's antique store, is engaged to a polished, money-focused, big-city real-estate salesman. Through a series of cute travel mishaps on her way to meet his family for the first time, she ends up at the wrong house a couple of days before Christmas. That warm, happy family, by a credulity-stretching coincidence, welcomes and cherishes her in their extremely - but tastefully - decorated home. Of course they have a very nice son who falls for her, and shares interests and values that aren't on her fiancé's radar. Complications, emotional struggles, and a happy resolution ensue. Apart from that one weak plot coincidence to get her into the family, and the general niceness of both men when the chips are down, the only thing that annoyed me was the heroine's little speech at the end, in which she declaimed about a character issue that was not well set up. Overall, a nice way to spend 2 hours while you're writing Christmas cards.
Symbols
This is the third time I watched this movie in less than a year. This movie is all about symbols, but I think I missed some of them the first two times. It's true that some of these are not done as subtly as perhaps they should have been and may even come off as clumsy, but I still loved it. Alice is all about tradition and family and romance and especially about Christmas and nostalgia. For this woman, giving up the symbol that represents her father is like cutting off her arm. And she revels in the chance to share Christmas, to decorate the tree, to make Christmas cookies. I won't try to say that Alicia Witt is the greatest actress in the world, but she does have a lot of talents. I think her facial expressions are one of those talents. I could watch them all day. And her laugh is overpowering and to some may be fake, but I think it is just gusto. I love it. Her acting in this movie is solid. Her chemistry with Mark Wiebe is just incredible in this film. In so many romance movies you wonder how the main characters could fall in love so quickly, but in this film you can see these two are just two parts of one whole and time is irrelevant. I have only two very slight complaints about this movie. My first is how could Alice and Will ever have thought they belonged together, much less thought they were in love? They have anti-chemistry. Not that Will is a villain boyfriend, especially at the start of the movie. But it is clear they aren't on the same page and Will has no idea who Alice is. Maybe, as she says, she even forgot herself. Besides, without the relationship, over half the story would be gone. The second is that I really wish we could have seen more of Alice with Matt's family, and less of her with Will's. All of the time with Matt and his family was heartwarming and enjoyable. The time spent with Will's was discouraging, and I really believe that not so much of it was needed to make the point.
Nice Film
REVIEW. WHEN ITS A POSITIVE THERE IS A GOOD CHANCE THEY WERE INVOLVED WITH THE PRODUCTION. NOW I HAVE NO AGENDA! I REVIEW MOVIES & SPECIALS AS A WAY TO KEEP TRACK OF WHAT I HAVE SEEN! I HAVE DISCOVERED MANY GEMS IN MY QUEST TO SEE AS MANY " C H R I S T M A S " MOVIES AS I CAN. Someone keeps reporting my reviews. I guess they are jealous because I do tell the truth. I want to point out that I never make snide remarks about actors weight or real life sexual orientation. If there acting is terrible or limited "I talk about that". If a story is bad "I will mention that" So why am I being "picked on"? IMDB will not even tell me what someone found offensive. Well on to this review In this film a woman who flies to her fiancé's home town alone to meet her future in-laws for the first time at their Christmas gathering. At the airport, after discovering that her luggage is lost and her mobile phone is broken, she meets her future brother-in-law by chance for the first time. He takes her to his parents' home, where she meets a warm loving family preparing for Christmas. Everything seems perfect until her "fiancé" arrives-and she realizes that she is with the wrong family. Alicia Witt limited acting range is all apparent here. She is the same in all her roles (Then again so is Tom Cruise). This film however could of been better but it still works. The filmmakers did a great job by setting up "The Choices" that Alice Chapman has in front of her. This film is predictable and has some flaws The phony laugh at the end should of been re-shot however the film does work. What is nice is the fact that this film did not involve a poor widow woman or orphans. Now will I watch it again. In fact I have. Twice more since I originally posted this review!
It's hard to dislike anything with Alicia Witt
Enjoyable Hallmark Christmas movie starring the always lovely and likable Alicia Witt as a struggling shop owner who becomes engaged to a jerk real estate agent. She takes a trip to meet his family but, through a series of events, she winds up spending the holidays with the wrong family and falling in love with the guy she thought was her fiancé's brother. It's all very contrived and maybe a little While You Were Sleeping-ish, but it's hard to dislike anything with Alicia Witt in it. Her character here is a bit of a ditz at times and we're never shown what in the world she saw in the jerk fiancé to begin with. How he even got a second date with her boggles the mind. But this is Hallmark and, if we've learned anything from Hallmark over the years, it's that the quickest way to meet your soul mate is to become engaged to a terrible person. As I said, this is as contrived a setup as you'll likely ever see in a movie. All the pieces have to fit together just right and in the right order at all times for this to work. Of course they do and it's fine. I don't watch Hallmark movies for great plots anyway. The characters are nice and the romance between Alicia's character and Mark Wiebe's character is handled well. One thing stood out to me and it's something I've seen before in other Hallmark movies. Wiebe's character builds furniture for a living but the movie makes sure to tell us he has a degree in economics. Why is it that in Hallmark romcoms the men always have to be either rich or "capable of being rich but choosing not to be?" It does seem strange, at least to me. Is there a big cry for pragmatism in romance stories nowadays?