Jack Vasen
Does this movie show that you can lie to your boyfriend and boss, sneak around the bosses house like a spy when she's gone, and break all her rules but still get a big promotion? Also, apparently all you need to be a success and save the company is one good idea. Well, I guess it is an ad agency where ideas are gold.Ally pushes the envelope a little too much for me. And the ending is just too perfect in a sappy way. Everyone gets everything. Of course that is true in most of these Christmas romcoms, but for me this one was just a little too much. Part of being too much was how quickly and completely mom changed her entire outlook and really so did dad.The acting was OK and the kids did a good job. Besides the fact that this was another Nanny movie, a lot of the story was at least a little different. For instance Shakespeare and yoga for two kids under 10.Most people who watch these movies already expect sappiness, so there is still a good chance many will enjoy this movie.
Christmas-Reviewer
"A Nanny for Christmas" is a 2010 comedy film, directed by Michael Feifer with a screenplay by Michael Ciminera and Richard Gnolfo. Starring Emmanuelle Vaugier, Dean Cain, Richard Ruccolo, Cynthia Gibb, and Sierra McCormick, the film was released November 23, 2010. [1]Ally (Emmanuelle Vaugier) is a smart young career woman who find herself needing a new job. Samantha (Cynthia Gibb) is a busy Beverly Hills advertising executive/mom who's always too busy to take care of her kids. Danny Donner (Dean Cain) is the tough-guy owner of a chocolate company who wants a major hit ad for his company. This film is the 40th Christmas film I have seen this year. Now there certain things you expect in a Christmas film. That's what gives these films a bad name. This film however has some of the things you expect but I love the fact that the children in this film are not brats to begin with. "They are nice kids". I borrowed this DVD. I am not sure where it will play on TV. Look for it on Hallmark or the UP Channel. Family Safe and worth seeking out.
joshuathirteen
I love all the silly, "you can see the happy ending after the first 3 minutes" Christmas movies. I love them. I watch a ton every year. But this one just doesn't know what it wants to be and fails miserably trying. This movie has at least 4 (maybe 5) typical Christmas movie plots going at once, and doesn't have enough time to develop motivation of characters or resolutions for any them. Even for a Christmas movie people act in extremely contrived ways. You can't figure out why they would do that. And you don't really like them enough to care. Back stories are hinted at but not developed. It seemed the author had no idea how to set up the situation so just randomly got people to move to starting places for the story. Then there is too much plot to resolve, so abracadabra a small event or two suddenly makes everyone make decisions to tie up a happy ending for all the plots elements. Motivations for change are completely inadequate. If they had picked one or two of the several problems in the characters lives and focused on motivations and resolutions for that, it could have been a good movie. But it wasn't.
SanteeFats
Okay another decent Christmas movie. Dean Cain plays a real hard ass looking for the right ad company for his chocolate line. At the end of the movie though he steps up and shows some humanity by telling Ally, the now nanny, to not make his mistake and to go for it. Ally is a marketing person who makes the mistake of putting the wrong holiday connection between the product and the owner. This leads to her being fired. She catches on as a nanny to another advertising exec and actually excels with the kids but not the uptight mommy. After giving her maybe boyfriend, Justin, the idea that lands the chocolate account from Cain she is found out to be the nanny and not an ad exec. Mommy realizes her errors and changes her behavior, feeding the kids pancakes when she usually goes with something a lot more healthy. So with her change of heart she throws a Christmas party for everyone except for Ally. The kids take care of that by inviting her to the party. She meets up with Justin and they hook back up as boyfriend and girlfriend. Daddy actually shows up for Christmas which surprises the entire family, pleasantly of course. He has realized that family is more important. Mommy realizes she wants to spend more time at home so takes a sabbatical sabbatical for a year. She leaves Justin in charge and promotes Ally from nanny to an ad exec. So as is typical in this type of film all ends well for every one.
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