heidibetrug
This movie is so sugary I feel the need for some insulin. Per the Hallmark template, motherless kids with well-meaning but harried dad get a lovely young nanny. Nanny is ebullient, attractive, and able to overcome the kids' initial hostility to become much loved and their prime candidate for step-motherhood. Yadda, yadda, yadda.The hook here is supposed to be the Halloween theme, which fills every scene like car exhaust in a closed garage. Who but owners of popup Halloween stores decorates every inch of their environment with this sort of schlock? Main character Poppy is a perpetually grinning hobgoblin who talks, eats, sleeps and dresses Halloween for weeks before the "big day". She's
unrelentingly cheerful and quick with the the happy-talk repartee and it's all just too too much. It ends as you would expect...and I'm off to watch something less syrupy . Reservoir Dogs, anyone?
Jack Vasen
I tagged this as having possible spoilers, but I don't think I said anything you wouldn't expect on your own.This isn't quite your usual Hallmark nanny movie where the kids declare all out war on the new nanny.Ashley Williams, plays a totally upbeat Poppy who seems to find positive in everything and also can turn almost anything into a life-learning experience. Even when things aren't going so well, she can laugh and move on. Part of this is a little childishness, but I think life loving is a better description of her than childish.Even her rival is not mean in this movie and actually she is kind of nice.Of course this is supposed to be a romance between Poppy and Ryan, but much more than that it is a romance between Poppy and the kids. While that is true to some degree in most nanny movies, it is even more so here. If I were a single dad, I would find it very hard not to love someone who loves my kids so much and is so good for them.There are no huge surprises or plot twists in this movie, but I still enjoyed it so much, mostly because of the relationship between Poppy and the kids.
rmcbroom-61490
I really love this movie. It's a nice movie to watch for a time of relaxing regardless of what it is. I happen to like watching them on a chilly, cloudy, and rainy day. Snuggled by my fireplace, there is no place I'd like to be. It's a nice pick me upper along with a feel good movie. I love this movie and the actor's they picked to play the parts. They all compliment one another along with helping the viewer feel like they can relate on some level with the movie. It was perfect for the amount chemistry and not over done. This is a nice movie that will help anyone be in a good mood. Great job Hallmark!Does anyone know where they did they filming and where the house is located? I love the landscape and the design of the house. I am also curious of the location where Poppy's sisters house is located as well.
boblipton
Director Lynne Stopkewich turns up the perkiness of this Hallmark Halloween movie as far as it will go in this story about unable-to-commit Ashley Williams taking a job as a nanny for work-addled Sam Jaeger's adorable children for two whole weeks.Ms. Williams starts out as a free spirit, so free, in fact that it soon becomes obvious that this is her problem; she cannot commit to any job, date or relationship beyond her two fatherless nephews. When her sister gets her a job as a nanny for Mr. Jaeger's motherless son and daughter, the only thing keeping her there is that this is, after all, a Hallmark romantic comedy.Like many of them, this is slight to the verge of being invisible. However, Ms. Williams' perpetual quizzical smile makes it eminently painless.
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