En cavale pour Noël

source: Debbie Macomber's Dashing Through the Snow

Thank goodness for Andrew W Walker, what a perfect specimen of a man, my ideal. Unfortunately he is the only really good thing about this film, him and the adorable dog. Something about the lead female actor seemed a bit insincere, perhaps that's how she was meant to be playing it, as part of the story, but I didn't like it. The scenario is actually quite farcical and the secret agents are all very silly. You also don't get the real family Christmas vibe. If Andrew had got a bit more naked than just a thin glimpse in the mirror, the film might have rated a higher score. I'd still watch it again though. He's just that hot and so sweet in this film.

Somehow you took the worst parts from the book and made them even worse for the movie. Congrats! I didn't have high hopes going into the movie but I figured it would at least be on par with the book but they somehow managed to make it 100x worse.

"Dashing Through the Snow" is a Hallmark film based on a novel by Debbie Macomber staring Andrew Walker and Meghan Ory as two young people travelling from California to Seattle for Christmas. The plot bears similarity to the great "It Happened One Night," which is mentioned by Ory's character, Ashley Harrison, several times. It's one thing to riff on a great movie. It's another to rip it off while mentioning you are ripping it off. It is the same problem that "Sleepless in Seattle" has with "An Affair to Remember." It's not clever or respectful just lazy. In spite of this, the film isn't terrible. The leads are attractive and personable with each other and other actors. I think Ory is especially charming in the scene in which she talks to the crazy guy who gives her a free puppy. Actor Aleks Paunovic as the dog man camps it up really good here. If you have ever lived in a rural area, you might run into someone like this. When no one is around to tell you you're crazy, you end up giving away puppies at a gas station. Walker, for the most part, is emotive as always. I especially enjoyed the scene when he attempts to tell Ory's character that he is an FBI agent. Oh, there is a subplot about Dash investigating Ashely because she is a suspected terrorist. When she meets him at the airport she has no idea that he is a secret agent. Someone swapped her wallet and the FBI is dumb to know what happened until after the bust into her friend's home near the end of the movie to arrest her. That's the biggest problem with the film. The FBI subplot is entirely unnecessary and handled poorly. It is really cheesy even when intended to be serious. Ashely and Dash have a pretty good rapport and their relationship grows organically. The revelation about Dash's life pulls the rug out from under her. Ory is sweet and this seemed unusually cruel to me. The film is hard to recommend in spite of how good the actors are. It's just all over the place and the bad is really bad.

No one in hallmark has apparently ever been to northern california or even looked at a map of I-5. The whole movie, they show this major north-south commercial artery as a twisty, two-lane road that occasionally goes along the coast and always in the snow. Aside from this, ashley is totally manic and i kept wanting to tell her to chill. If she is really in such a rush to get to seattle, why does she keep stopping? This drive is easily done in one day. The fbi is shown as dumber than usual and their interest in ashley doesn't make any actual sense. As usual, the book was better. The only saving grace for me was andrew walker's pleasant countenance and the two leads worked well together. But they couldn't save the poor material or the complete lack of anything resembling fact-checking.

This was way off the beaten path for Hallmark. Definitely the funniest HMC movie I've seen. Ash (Megan Ory) and Dash (Andrew Walker) really had that spark, with more than a few un-Hallmarkesque escapades on the way. Finally, a male lead who can pull off snark! And a female lead who does a sweet and convincing goofball, with no desperation for a man. Imo, the whole FBI angle was deliberately campy, and a tip o' the cap to screwball comedies of the past. There were some small moments (again, not the HMC way) that really tickled me. Like Dash's romantic two words at the bar and the Blade dog ownership test. Even my SO laughed!

This movie lost me when the male lead cut in front of the female lead at the car rental line. Why would any woman want to get into a relationship with a jackass like that?

Oregon is not like that full of cattages in every city I live in Medford I go up to Eugene and that's not even close to Eugene .

I have seen Meghan Ory and Andrew W Walker in other movies but their on-screen chemistry in Dashing Through the Snow is exceptional. Here is Ash, with her intensely caring nature and buoyant warmhearted personality and strong, laconic, sensitive Dash, haunted by his war-zone past and aftermath. They are a perfect on-screen match and superb with the puppy. They only needed formally to tie the knot in the end to rate 10 with me. DV I think they should team up again. Starcraft would be a good name for the shop.

Our family enjoys watching Christmas movies. This one passed the doze test (no one fell asleep) but I would not watch it again (my son-18 might). The story seems OK but the movie did not succeed in making it interesting or compelling. My wife said she didn't hate it, but it wasn't that good either. I guess we give it a Fair rating. The leading role actress was very pleasant and likable. Her character was fairly well developed and defined. We had some really nice scenes of kids dressed as reindeer, a man giving away puppies, boys switching license plates. No real cohesion to the main story line. The story had some real suspense and surprise, but the film did not exploit it. They just didn't pull it off. It probably could have been a good movie.