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Santa Baby 2

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MOVIE

Santa Baby 2

Full Title: Santa Baby 2 - Christmas Maybe

Network: ABC Family 25 Days of Christmas Movie

Original Air Date: December 13, 2009



CAST:

Jenny McCarthy ... Mary Class
Dean McDermott ... Luke Jessup
Paul Sorvino ... Santa Claus
Lynne Griffin ... Mrs. Claus
Kelly Stables ... Teri
Jessica Parker Kennedy ... Lucy the Elf
Kristen Holden-Ried ... Colin
Gabe Khouth ... Skip the Elf
Peter Skagen ... Worst Department Store Santa Ever
Miguelito Macario Andaluz ... Sandy
Lorette Clow ... Stuck Up Woman
Richard Side ... Gary the Elf
Holly Anne Emmerson ... Young Women
James Higuchi ... Dave the Elf





PLOT:

from Wikipedia:

Jenny McCarthy reprises her role as Mary Class, Santa's business minded daughter, to help save Christmas in "Santa Baby 2," the sequel to ABC Family's original hit movie of 2006. Santa's in the midst of a late-life crisis -- he's tired of the responsibilities of the job and is ready to pass on the reins to Mary, who feels torn between the family business and running her own high stakes firm in New York City, along with balancing a relationship with the love of her life, Luke (Dean McDermott). The situation gets increasingly dire when Teri, an ambitious new arrival to the North Pole, sows dissension at the workshop in an effort to take over Christmas.


Movie Review:

If you enjoy Fantasy "North Pole" Christmas Movies... that are made just for lighthearted entertainment and amusement - then this movie should be right down your Santa Claus Lane!

This is a sequel movie to the original Santa Baby Movie starring Jenny McCarthy and George Wendt, as Santa.

In Santa Baby 2 - Dean McDermott plays Luke, the boyfriend of Mary Claus (Jenny McCarthy).
Paul Sorvino portrays her father, Santa Claus. It's Mary's job, again, to get to the North Pole and save Christmas. Mary and her boyfriend, Luke, live near Santa's toy shop at his place. Nothing is shown but kissing, however their living together is implied from the start. There is a little bit of language in this one, as well.

There is a lot of silly North pole activity and craziness! It's definitely a fantasy comedy. One of the elves, Teri, tries to take over Santa's role and is deceptive to everyone. In the end, she is remorseful and is forgiven. Mary has to decide between work & family commitments. There are also relationship struggles between Luke and Mary. Again, they disagree over living at the North Pole.

In the end, however, they come together and Christmas is saved Forever!!!


See or Skip:

See, but, I would rate this one PG!


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Christmas in Canaan

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MOVIE REVIEW
Christmas in Canaan:

starring Country Singer
and Hannah Montana Star-
Billy Ray Cyrus


Network: Hallmark Channel


Original Air Date: December 12, 2009







CAST:

Billy Ray Cyrus ... Daniel Burton
Ben Cotton ... Buddy
Emily Tennant ... Sarah
Tom McBeath ... Earl
Jessica McLeod ... Young Sarah
Rukiya Bernard ... Charlane
Jacob Blair ... DJ
Jaishon Fisher ... Young Rodney
Tom Heaton ... Wylie
Zak Ludwig ... Young DJ
Matt Ward ... Rodney
Stefanie Samuels ... Angela
Julian Christopher ... Shoup
Brendan Meyer ... Bobby
Darien Provost ... Young Bobby
Candus Churchill ... Eunice
Nico McEown ... Jimmy Ray
Stacee Copeland ... Nurse
Lossen Chambers ... Celie
Paul Herbert ... Clancey
Arien Boey ... 4 Yr Old Bobby




PLOT:

from Hallmark Channel-

Holiday Themed Movie for Hallmark during Christmas-time.

In the rural town of Canaan, Texas, a clash between two classmates – one, a tough farm boy, and the other, a bright bookish black boy – evolves into an unlikely friendship. The boys’ families devise a plan to teach them a lesson after they fight, but it is a wounded puppy that eventually brings them together. It is amidst the magic of Christmas that the boys learn about family, hope and love despite living under the shadow of racism.



Movie Review:

Christmas in Canaan opens with this narration: the Bible says Canaan is the promised land, and the joke in this Texas town is that the bank has the promissory notes to prove it.

Based in the 1960s, this story is about the lives of two families - one white and the other black. Through Christian love, we see the two families come together, even though the world would tear them apart.

This movie stands strong on Bible principles. Prayers spoken throughout are said in the name of Jesus. There are strong messages about loving God and loving your neighbor.

This movie is a great history lesson for children - because it shows the struggle of the black people during that era. Although, please note, there is some violence in this movie... a dog is shot and wounded- however, two young boys - one white, D.J., one black, Rodney- work together to save him. Earlier, these same boys had an argument on the school bus. D.J.'s father Daniel Burton, (Billy Ray Cyrus) didn't want his son to grow up to be a bigot, so he worked out a deal with Rodney's grandmother, Eunice, for the boys to live in each others home for a week. This created their bond.

When Eunice passed away, Rodney was a teenager, and Daniel immediately asked Rodney to come and live with their family, in spite of his father-n-law protesting.

Election time rolls around. Rodney is torn between his devotion and love for the Burton family and the Civil Rights Movement.

African American Voters gather together at a tent meeting. Town bigots, Carl and his son, firebomb the tent and take off in their truck. On their way out, they hit Daniel's youngest son, Bobby. He had rode there on his bicycle to warn his friend Rodney and the others. Bobby is taken to the hospital, his leg is injured, but he recovers.

This drama is intense, heartwarming, and realistic. Billy Ray Cyrus is wonderful as the Father and all of the children are fantastic, too... you are instantly drawn into their characters and family life on the farm.



Christmas in Canaan...
Two Christmases are shown during the course of this movie. The first is when the children are all still at home and Rodney is living with them, too. They don't have much, and yet the Father has decided to give them pictures from the Sears catalog of what he would like to get each of them. It's a beautiful scene... each one is so full of love for their father, even though they had so very little- they were grateful to have each other, love, family, and hope!

The second Christmas shown... is at the end of the movie. The children are all grown and the grandfather has since passed away. Rodney asks them all to meet him and since he has become a succesful writer, due to the Burton families encouragement many years before, he gives them each the gifts that were in the pictures from that old catalog years ago. It's such a precious moment, and it's easy to see that they are more thrilled just to be together than anything! Rodney has also promised Daniel that he will get the best medical help for Bobby with his leg. It's such a beautiful story of a family - that doesn't see color... only the love of Christ.

See or Skip:

See, it's an inspiring family movie.





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Happy New Year, 2009!

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I just wanted to wish all of you... God's blessings and Happiness in the New Year!

I hope many of you enjoyed the Christmas TV Schedule. What did you love on TV this year during the Christmas Season? What would you like to be different next year? I was recently visiting the ABCfamily Message Boards and many on there were not pleased that ABCfamily aired so many non-holiday movies during their 25 days of Christmas Celebration. I couldn't agree more. I would have loved to have seen more of Eloise at Christmastime (maybe in prime time, instead of 7 AM), Sons of Mistletoe, Christmas Everyday, and The Christmas List (which seems to be a favorite!).... instead of Mary Poppins, Cars, The Incredibles, and others.

The Family TV Schedule on my web-site: www.itsawonderfulmovie.com, will be updated soon with movies for family viewing. This year it will only include certain stations. I will report movies from the Hallmark Channel, ABCfamily, Disney, ION, Lifetime, Lifetime Move Network, Local Sations, and maybe a few others, if I hear about any special shows or programming!

God's Blessings in 2009!

Net Movie Blogger


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Reviews of New Christmas Movies... thus far!

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It is now (unbelievably) less than 2 weeks from Christmas and many of us are still buzzing about... like busy little bees - still shopping and hunting for those special gifts, baking Christmas goodies, decorating the house, wrapping gifts, .... hopefully visiting the It's a Wonderful CHRISTmas TV Schedule, and possibly.... maybe finding a few minutes in the evening to cozy up by the fireplace and watch an old favorite or new... Christmas Movie!

There have only been a hand full of premieres, thus far... and there are many more to come as the days get closer to Christmas!

So far, I have watched the following movies listed below. I will rate them from 1 to 5 .... 5 being the best.

NEW MOVIES:

An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving ( 4 of 5 )

Moonlight & Mistletoe ( 4 of 5 )

Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh (1 of 5)

The Christmas Choir (4.5 of 5)

Front of the Class (5 of 5)

Macy's Presents: Little Spirit, Christmas in New York (2.5 of 5)

Christmas Town (2 of 5)


Okay, so the Front of the Class was not technically a Christmas Movie.... but there was a brief mention of Thanksgiving and Christmas! It was such a beautiful inspiring movie of a young boy and man who was determined to become a teacher in spite of having tourette's syndrome. I haven't loved a movie like that in a long time. I loved it!

I'll have more... fuller reviews of these movies on the Movie Reviews page in the coming days.

Have a Blessed Merry CHRISTmas!!!

Net Movie Blogger


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Happy Thanksgiving... It's the Countdown to CHRISTmas!!!

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I've been busy busy busy... Updating the Christmas TV Schedule list with all the wonderful family Christmas Movies I can find.
Check the list for your favorites and if you know something - not on the list - then please e-mail me!

There are lots of New Christmas Movies this year! Be sure to catch a new Thanksgiving Movie tonight on the Hallmark Channel titled - An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving. It looks like it will be a lovely movie!

Happy Thanksgiving & Merry CHRISTmas!!!

NET Movie Blogger





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First Blog

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Introduction-

This is my first post for this Blog. I have kept other blogs before - but just wasn't pleased with the overall look, with ads and such, and so I recently switched to Blogger because of the cleaner look of design. I hope this will be a lot of fun and I look forward to hearing back from those of you, who view my web-site looking for family movies.

About Me-

I love the Lord, Jesus Christ, and my precious family with all my heart! For fun, I love creating and designing on the internet and sharing my joy for watching family made movies. I hope you will enjoy my take and reviews on movies!

It's a Wonderful... Family Movie Night-

My web-site originally started in October of 2007, as It's a Wonderful CHRISTmas! At that time, the web-site was solely based around CHRISTmas and a TV Movie page that listed all the Family Favorite Christmas Specials and Movies I could find on Television from October to December. Those Christmas web-pages still remain here. And the Christmas TV Schedule - that everyone loved, will be back again in October of 2008! Until then, you can visit the Family TV Schedule for all the family friendly films that are currently airing on TV.

In January of 2008, I started to branch the "It's a Wonderful CHRISTmas" web-site out to the all new - "It's a Wonderful... Family Movie Night" web-site! It's a nice way to keep track of all the wonderful movies that air on TV throughout the year, (and sometimes at the theater, too!) that the family can grab a bowl of buttered popcorn and watch together!

God bless,

Net Movie Bogger



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