A strange woman finds love with a mailman around Christmas time
Zzzzz Huh! What?! Oh. This snoozer came out in 2010. It features Ashley Scott, A.J. Buckley, and Lochlyn Munro. Writing it, if you want to call it that, were Lorene Lacey and Steven Palmer Peterson. It’s director was John Murlowski. And now I go back to sleep. Zzzzzz.
I say Minor Spoilers, but honestly? You know where this film’s going pretty much the whole time.
It has this strange woman running into a beleaguered mailman right at the start, and with in, let’s say the next ten minutes, the view knows the woman is Santa Claus’s daughter and that after a few misunderstandings the two of them will end up together. Standard romantic comedy stuff.
Which they botch.
Oh so badly.
It could have been a cute movie. The potential is there. Maybe if they focused on the Strange Woman more. Show her doing a little magic stuff, have a little more connection to Santa, that sort of thing.
They don’t. Her being Santa’s daughter really doesn’t play into things at all. There’s some exposition here and there about her life with the Big Guy. There’s some mysterious assistance given during the Great Chase at the end to reunite the two lovers (because of course there’s a chase). And…. that’s about it.
There’s also a bit of strangeness. The film has a moment where this beard old fellow interferes with the plot, with a Mysterious Older Fella With a Beard helping out the beleaguered mail. You say, hey! That’s Santa. Only later he pops up again to help out Strange Woman and she doesn’t recognize him.
Most of the film focuses on the mail man, instead, with him trying to raise his orphaned niece while struggling with abandoning his rock star dreams to be forced to work for an EEEEVIL postal manager. It is so. Very. Boring. And. Obvious.
None of the characters rise above cliché. None of the situations are as interesting as you’d like. It’s forced, it’s boring, and it’s a complete waste of time.
It isn’t even MST3K bad. It’s just terrible.
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