Christmas on the Farm

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Wholesome comedy that was pretty fun to watch :) enjoyed the journey & humour along the way & loved seeing some Aussie actors in it too :) I feel like quite a few scenes do a great job of summing up Aussie culture.

I didn't like Christmas in Connecticut so why did I watch this even worse film with the same promise? Our female lead is a cringey, unlikable drunk. She's just awful! Her character supposedly grew up on a farm but she can't tell the difference between a cow and a bull, she can't ride a horse and she freaks out over a spider. Ugh! The gay couple is completely over the top and cliche. And speaking of cliches, the writers even threw in a horrible shopping montage. The writing is tragic and the acting is SO overdone, it reminds me of a really bad high school play. The relationship between our two leads is completely forced and ridiculous. "Romantic comedy'? HA! There is nothing romantic nor comedic about this film! It's just uncomfortable slapstick stupidity. But the most disappointing and saddest part of this horribly crafted film is that the basis of the storyline is that are female lead needs to save her mother's farm. A farm that her mother poured her heart and soul into after the death of her husband. So the fact that our female lead hates the farm, had nothing to do with the farm and shares no affection for it is just a really heartbreaking underlying tone.

Admittedly I generally don't love Christmas films or romcoms, so this one probably wasn't my genre to begin with, but as there have been some great Aussie Xmas films (Mooney Christmas, a sunburnt Christmas) I decided to give it a go. I think this film felt like it was written to take place in America and then quickly was slapped together for Australian production. The Aussie elements brought in more felt like cheap stereotypes then actual nods to Australian culture. Overall I felt like it was an Australian movie, but not made for Aussies. I'm not really sure who it was made for tbh.

Can't find a redeemable feature of this truly cringeworthy film. What were they thinking? Who wrote the script? Seriously get some audience critique before you start the next film.

This was the worse Christmas or romance movie I've ever seen, and I normally love trashy Hallmark movies. The acting was abismal, the lead actress looked far too old for the role, and the entire story wasn't even remotely believable. Sheridan & Brown and the child are the only good things. Don't waste your time!

Awful film. Bad acting. Stupid storyline. Executed poorly. Boring. I ended up skipping through several parts of it. Only good thing is Hugh Sheridan is in it. Don't bother with it.

Pros 1. Diversity 2. Australian 3. Light hearted Cons 1. Rom com 2. Predictable 3. Choppy CGI I went into this movie thinking it was about the gay couple because that's the poster I had seen, However it is just a low budget movie with nothing to add on neither new.

This movie is unfortunately a bit of a dumpster fire but because of certain idpol elements it has received what is called clapter, which is basically a false laugh/clap not because something is actually entertaining but because it affirms ones political ideology rightly or wrongly. This movie meanders about with a powerful sense of fakeness and low effort, it felt like all the Aussies were Americans with no understanding of Aussie culture and all the Americans were Aussies doing bad American accents, a soulless waste of time.

The Christmas movie we didn't know we needed! Uplifting and exactly what we need post lockdown. Lighthearted and likeable characters with great acting and script.