Falling for Christmas movie review (2022)
Like a tinsel-covered twist on “Overboard,” Lohan performs a lodge heiress named Sierra Belmont who finds herself in simply this type of state of affairs. Supplied the place of “Vice President of Ambiance” at her father’s unique ski chalet, she’s there per week earlier than Christmas to let him know she doesn’t assume the place is the suitable match for her, despite the fact that she doesn’t actually know what else she must be doing along with her life as an alternative. All she is aware of is she needs to be identified for greater than her father’s final identify.
Decked out in beautiful monocolor ensembles designed by Emerson Alvarez, just like the daring crimson jumpsuit featured on the poster and a fuchsia snowsuit, Lohan embodies this character like a softer model of Sigourney Weaver’s character in “Working Lady.” She’s good natured, however she does bark orders like somebody whose privilege comes second nature. Lohan is at her finest on this half of the movie, which permits her pure comedic chops to shine.
On her approach to meet her vapid social media influencer boyfriend Tad (George Younger), Sierra meets cute with Jake (Chord Overstreet), the proprietor of a a lot smaller, struggling resort on the identical mountain. He runs into her whereas holding a cup of scorching cocoa given to him after Sierra’s father Beauregard (Jack Wagner) declines to put money into his enterprise. Lohan screeching “My Valenyagi” time and again after a dollop of whipped cream finds its manner onto her lapel is pure camp.
This unlikely duo, in fact, meet once more after a disastrous off-the-grid engagement photograph shoot ends with Sierra and Tad toppling down a distant mountain. Whereas taking vacationers on an idyllic sleigh trip, Jake finds the now amnesiac Sierra, head-based right into a tree, whereas Tad finds himself spending 4 days with a survivalist named Ralph (Sean J. Dillingham).
All that is established with a breakneck screwball tempo within the first ten minutes, with Lohan greater than able to sustaining the prescribed rat-a-tat dialogue wanted to drag off the tone. She even goes all in on just a few slapstick moments that don’t fairly work, however add a pleasant wackiness that balances out a few of the movie’s extra saccharine tendencies. As Tad, Younger is totally hilarious, spewing out absurd strains with the utmost sincerity, which couple properly with the broad comedy his self-obsessed character calls for. If solely the movie had saved this zany type all through, it may have transcended its trappings to grow to be a brand new basic.
