The Royal Nanny

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PROS- More London!! Scenery was sumptuous! More NEW TALENT!! Rachel Skarsten and Dan Jeannotte weren't tired, overly-used actors that we are all tired of seeing far too much of! Rachel was quick, witty, and her timing was perfect! Dan Jeannotte was a fresh take on the "Royal Prince role" with his wit and unabashed humor (-and he was very easy on the eyes!). The English accents were most welcome! GREAT, UNIQUE Storyline, and NOT WOKE!! Hallmark... Just a great, BIG "Thank You" for this! The two leads were BRILLIANT!! Really. Just great chemistry and humor between the two. The scenery was a feast for the eyes in London! The storyline was hilarious beginning with the MI5 agent being told she's going to be an undercover nanny, and she doesn't like kids LOL! Favorite quote from movie was "Scary Poppins!" GREAT JOB HALLMARK! Nailed It on this one!!

We enjoyed the characters and the actors and actresses very much. The story, although a little off, followed along naturally in a typical pleasant Hallmark fashion. It was a cozy evening, easy to watch movie. The children actors were not obnoxious and actually knew their lines. The Royal movies often go astray with an abundance of awful uniforms, mean old fathers or grandmothers, protocol, and newspaper headline catastrophes. We were glad the bypassed the, oh you screwed up - breakup routine in favor of an actual story. We'd like to see more stories without the misconstruance by one or both primary actors.

This was a delightful surprise. Finally, something a little bit different from Hallmark. I really enjoyed the plot particularly because Hallmark tends to replace Christmas activities for plot. The lead actors were very good and perfectly cast. Even though I don't particularly like royal movies, this had a very cute story. The script was charming with some very good dialogue. Overall, this was the best Christmas movie of 2022. It seems that every year the movies get more banal and formulaic. I wish the network would stop with small town stories and two lead characters who were high school sweethearts.....or even worse... childhood friends! It's not only unrealistic, but those relationships are so redundant. And, why can't the lead characters have two parents? Or siblings? Or come from one child families??? It baffles me that there's never any relatives at their Christmas dinners. You say you want to be more authentic, well you're not doing a very good job Hallmark!

I thought this movie was fantastic. I loved that it was not your usual formulaic Hallmark romance Christmas movie. It had romance, yes, but it also had intrigue and mystery which was very refreshing and always a favorite of mine The acting was great by everyone including the young children. The actress I'm not familiar with but she was so pretty and did a wonderful job of acting, her voice was so pretty and calming. It turns out she isn't even British but her accent was pretty much spot on!! Hallmark is really hitting it out of the park this Holiday season. So far I thoroughly enjoyed The Royal Nanny, Three Wise men and a Baby, Ghost of Christmas Always and Jolly Good Christmas. All worth a view when/if you have the time to unwind and enjoy a really good movie. Also Great movies this year but not as good in my opinion as the 4 listed above but still enjoyable were Lights, Camera, Christmas, We Wish You a Married Christmas (much better than I thought it was going to be) and Christmas Bedtime Stories.

This was apparently a Christmas movie. I am not sure what happened in the last 30 minutes of this movie, which was all my wife and I watched. I think it had something to do with drugs. The Prince of England ended up kissing the special agent at the end (and I suspect they went off to make a baby because, while they were kissing, the doors closed to keep out the viewing audience, but my wife does not think they went baby-making). My favorite part of the movie was when the prince showed the nanny his collection of items he purchased from the Seasonal aisle at Rite Aid. My kids love those singing, light-up items in Rite Aid, but since I'm not a prince, I cannot afford to buy them all of those knick knacks. This movie had a lot of Christmas decorations in the background while everyone was trying to figure out how to rescue the kidnapped prince. That is what made this a magical Christmas movie. Thankfully, no guns were used in this movie.

I decided up front to watch this movie due to liking the two main characters as actors and the commercials made it looked hilarious. The story was somewhat believable with a credible threat to the royal family. I liked that they used actual names of places such as Kensington Palace and Fogmore House where the royals actually live. The scenes of London were good. They also used the new rule in British Royalty where the oldest child inherits the throne, instead of the oldest male. The movie was funny, lots of fun, but also a good mystery. I've already watched it three times since it was so much fun.

The Royal Nanny is one of the better Hallmark movies this year in my opinion. The first thing I observed was I had a hard time at first understanding the British accents which meant the actors were doing a great job in their speech. This film is a combination of intrigue, humor, romance and just plain fun with a touch of Mary Poppins to boot. I give it a 9 instead of a 10 because again, we have a female unrealistically and quickly physically overcoming 2 large men---probably not realistic but hey, this is Hallmark. Over all I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. Refreshing to see Royals actually doing their "duty" to their country.

The Royal Nanny. It's one of the better movies this year. Different storyline, mystery, comedy, romance. Very cute. Thoroughly enjoyed it! Unrealistic, of course, because an English prince would never be in a romance with an orphan MI7 agent, lol. We viewers don't mind, though. It was interesting and held my interest throughout. Super cute use of the "brolly". Gave it a 7. Good acting. I liked "Scary" Poppins, and everyone was of course English, so the accents were real. Though I know someone here will say they turned it off because of it! It was filmed in Brussels, Belgium, so other than drone views of the London skyline and Tower Bridge, the street scenes and castle were in Belgium.

I will keep my review short and sweet, I enjoyed this Christmas movie probably the most I've enjoyed any other over the last 10 years!! Every once in a while Hallmark throws in an unsuspecting gem. I had no expectations for this movie as I do any other because in my humble opinion, Hallmark has become so drab and formulaic but to my surprise, The Royal Nanny proved to be fun, charming, just a little suspenseful and downright likable! I found I wasn't rolling my eyes, yawning or talking to myself out loud saying "oh please, give me a break" To all involved in this adorable movie I say, well done and thank you!