2020 Holiday Movie Rankings

Dec 31, 2020 | Holiday Movie Rankings

Watching Hallmarky holiday movies, year one!

Ranked movies are found on Netflix except: *Disney+ **Hulu ***AmazonPrime

Noelle*
A Cinderella Story: Christmas Wish
Holidate
Midnight at the Magnolia
Dash & Lily
A Cinderella Christmas**
A Very Country Christmas
A Christmas Prince
The Princess Switch
The Princess Switch: Switched Again
Christmas with a View
The Knight before Christmas
Girlfriends of Christmas Past***
A Christmas Prince: Royal Wedding
Operation Christmas Drop
A Christmas Prince: Royal Baby
Hometown Holiday
Christmas with a Prince
Holiday in the Wild
Christmas wedding planner (didn’t even finish this one)

Noelle *

Santa’s daughter must take over the family business when her father retires and her brother, who is supposed to inherit the Santa role, gets cold feet.

A smiling couple stand in front of a Christmas themed winter scene

A Cinderella Christmas**

Tonight: A Cinderella Christmas. This was well done, cute, and gets you in the feels! overall the idea falls into typical hallmark movie but they had some original ideas to it. I really enjoyed it.

Dash & Lily

Six days since my last cheesy movie only fitting I watched Dash & Lily tonight as it’s a 7 episode mini series.

This was very cute, sweet and a quick watch! You want to cheer them on the whole time and laugh with them as they discovered things.

Highly recommend.

Naughty & Nice

So I picked Naughty & Nice (2014) because I thought it was Hilary Duff but it’s her sister Haylie Duff. Either way, I watched it and I liked it! It was cute and sweet with an adorable ending. Definitely gives you some feelings as you watch it, definitely follows the romance formula.

The Princess Switch: Switched Again

After tonight i really need sleep so it might be the last for at least a few nights BUT I had to watch the sequel

The Princess Switch: Switched Again released tonight and it was just as fun as the first one. There was not one, not two, but THREE Vanessa Hudgens in this

Netflix was like “We need more Vanessa Hudgens. Should we make more movies with her?

Nah. We’ll just make one movie that has 3 of her.”

There was even a cameo at the end from another Netflix movie. So if you liked the first one, highly recommend this.

A Castle for Christmas

Day two! So this one is not romcom hallmarky but it’s still cheesy, not believable but adorable kind of way. Maybe seeing Lindsey Lohan yesterday influenced my pick tonight.

This is about two moms: both super busy and thinks they need to do it all, but it manifests differently on how they approach life/work/family. Of course, Claus twinkles some magic and they switch bodies thinking the other has it easy. By the end, they learn lessons that helps better them and their families.

Two red haired women stand back to back in front of a Christmas tree

12 Pups of Christmas

This one is SUPER cheesy and the timeline is a little off, but it has puppies! But seriously, really, really cheesy. Definitely one to kinda just have in the background while you do something else Also, I discovered I have a pet peeve when they use the word translator when they should use interpreter.

Smiling couple embrace in front of a snowy backdrop

Single All the Way

Okay, I didn’t think I’d like anything more then LoveHard this year but this was so cute! Like, omg it was adorable and you’re cheering for them and it has some good laughs and oh so adorable. Definitely a feel good happy movie that just makes you squee for them. Don’t be a FOMO-sexual and watch it

Love Hard

First of the year! This one was so cute it gave me so many warm and fluffy feelings. And I love that there was an Asian lead and a mix family and just all the representations as it matters! But it wasn’t like, in your face about it, which makes it all the better. Definitely a sweet love movie with a perfect ending. A fantastic one to start off my Christmas hallmark movie marathon

Girlfriends of Christmas Past***

Tonight: Girlfriends of Christmas Past. It was entertaining, funny and the ending was HORRIBLY cheesy, like, bad but not too unexpected

Also, Roxanne McDanel was the makeup artist for this AND I saw her name in the credits

Midnight at the Magnolia

Tonight: Midnight at the Magnolia. This was very cute and one of the most believable stories of the lot so far. Like, it could totally happen!

I wonder if I’m gonna run out of movies by Christmas

Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star

I’m off to a late start this year so we’ll see how many I get in! For those new to my page, I try to watch as many cheesy, hallmarky Christmas movies as I can! So second up is the Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star. I couldn’t help it! It’s a guilty pleasure and I just had to know. You don’t get just one, or two, but three Vanessa Hudgens

It’s cute, predictable on how it ended but the storyline was a new one to me. It wasnt worst then the others like most trilogies so that’s a plus. Cute, entertaining, and silly at times. All and all a good time

A California Christmas: City Lights

This is a sequel to A California Christmas released last year by Netflix and I think I like this one more! It’s the reverse of course and still as predictable but done very nicely. Sweet ending that I actually would love to learn more about so that tells me they did their job right!

Rock N’ Roll Christmas

This one is not your typical hallmarky movie but I found it really good! I love the songs in it, super catchy. It’s more about the mother and daughter duo but no worries, they didn’t forget to throw in some romance. Timelines always get me in all these movies because they would never happen in real life but it makes for good tv!

Parts of this was also filmed in Austin and it made me realize I would LOVE to be part of one of these movies I having so much fun watching.

Falling for Christmas

You know, when you can’t find the movie to tag, maybe it’s a sign but really, this wasn’t as bad as it could be but not high compared to some of the others I’ve seen this year. Cute and totally follows the formula but I liked it because I like the skating part! It made me want to get back on the ice myself. Pandemic, go away so I won’t feel weird getting on the rink with other people!

Christmas Belle

Oh geez. Even for me, this one was pretty snort worthy the ending was kinda horrible super cheesy for sure. That’s all I’m gonna say about it

My Dad’s Christmas Date

This is not your typical Christmas movie. It’s not warm and fluffy feeling but it has a sweet ending. So it’s ranked lower purely because I was not expecting it. But it still gets you in the heart.

The Christmas Calendar

The Christmas Calendar. This is a random one I picked tonight off Hulu. It has a happy ending like all hallmarky Christmas movie but it had some twists I was not expecting! Definitely a good warm and fluffy feeling movie.

Snowbound for Christmas

Snowbound for Christmas. This one was cute and sweet. The last 10m is when they really turned up the hallmarky part but the rest was a nice build and beautiful setting! Makes me want to spend a weekend in snow (but only a weekend; this Texan does not do well in cold long )

A Very Country Christmas

Tonight: A Very Country Christmas. Cute, definitely gives you the holiday hallmark cheesiness that you can guess what happens but still get all giddy when they get together