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Rating: 🎄🎄
Description: When a holiday first date ends in a frosty misunderstanding, Peyton and Ethan’s spark is snuffed out before it can catch fire. Years later, fate – and a Christmas blizzard intervene, reuniting them as Christmas approaches, they’ll have to decide whether to keep their hearts on ice… or finally melt into the magic that never quite went away.
Overall Review: There’s nothing quite like a Christmas movie about two people who can’t communicate, especially when the filmmakers decide the best solution is to trap them in a cabin together until they figure it out. Unfortunately, Snowbody Like You seems to have confused romantic tension with two people having the same conversation for an hour and a half.
The premise is serviceable. A holiday first date goes wrong (the date did not go wrong, FYI), years pass, and a Christmas blizzard brings the two leads back together. It’s the kind of setup that should provide plenty of opportunities for humor, romance, and a little emotional growth. Instead, we got a lot of awkwardness and people who desperately needed to have one honest conversation.
The male lead was stilted and uncomfortable, and not in that charming, slightly awkward way that can actually make a lead endearing. His performance just didn’t work particularly well opposite the female lead, and their chemistry never really got off the ground. Meanwhile, our leading lady spent an awfully long time being anxious about everything. I understand that unresolved feelings can make someone nervous, but at some point, I’d like to see a character move beyond the same emotional starting point. There was an opportunity for some meaningful growth here, and I kept waiting for it to happen.
And then they got trapped in a cabin.
Oh, good.
Because if there’s one thing this movie needed, it was an hour of these two talking in circles instead of addressing the actual reason they were upset with each other. In most Christmas movies, the snowed-in cabin is where the magic happens. The walls come down, the truth comes out, and the romance finally starts to open up. Here, I found myself hoping someone would arrive with a snowplow and a couples therapist.
I didn’t fast-forward through this one, but that’s not exactly a ringing endorsement. At one point, I got into a conversation with someone else, completely lost track of what was happening in the movie, and realized I wasn’t particularly concerned about catching up. That’s usually a pretty good indication that a movie has failed to hold my attention.
To be fair, Snowbody Like You wasn’t a complete disaster. It had a workable premise and the basic ingredients of a Christmas romance. But the performances, chemistry, and character development never came together to make it particularly compelling.
They were trapped in a cabin by a blizzard. I was trapped on my couch by a movie that couldn’t get to the point. At least they eventually got out.
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