Christmas at The Palace

The movie overall isn't bad, I watched the whole thing which is more than I can say for some of the other movies this year. I like that it's a pair of best friends, Katie and Jessica, working and finding love together, it's like the fantasy for best friends to find mates together and a plus, royal(ish).

I actually liked the best friend, Jessica, more than the lead, she was so endearing. You wanted to smile when she did!

The setting is beautiful as usual. I defiantly what to go on a tour of Hallmarkia, I mean Romania.

Honestly, my biggest issue was that the lead, Katie, said she wanted to BOIL MILK for hot chocolate. That would make the milk curdle and chunky hot chocolate sounds gross.

Oh yeah, there's ice skating too.

I'm not a fan of royal stories, Christmas or otherwise. This one was middle of the road for me, but I enjoyed Merritt Patterson's energy in the beginning. The approach to the royal story was a little different. The latter half of the movie didn't live up to the beginning for me. It looked like they introduced a twist to the obvious expectation, but then switched again.

This is like the other christmas/Palace type movies where the girl ends up with the prince/King but I always watch them and enjoy them.

This was a good movie and i watched it as part of my Christmas movies before Christmas day challenge which is now on 17 out of 100.

Would I watch it again? Yeah. It was nice.

Hallmark Royalty Movies - ugh. The story was nice ... but this royalty/monarchy angle is getting really old. Girls/women don't all want to marry a prince/king. At least there wasn't a grumpy mother queen in this one! I think the story would have worked without the king/palace/monarchy. BTW - why are all these kings/princes widowed with a child? I'd be very leary marrying one of them! Seem like it's not good for your continues living...

All the characters conquer their fears and along the way enjoying the holidays. It is an up and down set of challenges revolving around a skater and a crown prince. Toss in some great friends and the king's 10 year old daughter for smiles, you have a good Hallmark movie. I give this movie 8 out of 10 cups of hot cocoa-with lots of marshmallows.