source: Holiday in Handcuffs

Moviecut—Holiday in Handcuffs

I thought this was a very cute movie...not really believable but if you're into cheesy, cute Holiday movies that leave you feeling warm and fuzzy, then check this out! Melissa Joan Hart is a very underrated actress, she and Mario Lopez had great chemistry together. It was very entertaining and had many laugh out loud moments. I gave it 8 out of 10 bc some things were missing..like what happened to the Grandma, why Trudy never really talked to her sister, things like that. I would recommend this!

Absolutely the most incredible silly premise for any movie ever. Not really worth watching unless you have absolutely nothing else to watch which in these the days of mass production and media overload that's an impossibility so go to the next one.

This movie attempts to justify kidnapping someone at gunpoint. That's all you need to know, that's it. Look I'm a feminist, 100%, but I'd like to point out if it was a man who kidnapped a woman at gunpoint the movie would not be received so we'll. Gross.

Maybe it's just me, but I absolutely loved this movie, I loved Melissa in Sabrina The Teenage Witch, and Mario is such a cutie( love the dimples). The ending was predictable, but I didn't care, I love happy endings. I didn't like Melissa's hair at the beginning, but throughout it, it was looking up. I loved the storyline and have never seen any of the other movies people have posted on here, so I don't have anything to complain about. It was the first Christmas movie that I have watched, that made me laugh since the Christmas season has started. I loved the grandma, she cracked me up! I also loved when David ( nick) realized that he was starting to like Trudy, It just proves that it doesn't matter what you do or who you are, love can always be where you least expect, even if it is a wild and crazy way. At least you will have a great story to tell!

This movie actually has a well-made feel to it, like when everybody knows what they're doing and it's not just a studio spewing out TV fodder. MJH is always watchable, and there's a solid supporting cast. The Christmas theme is not over-cooked and there isn't too much vomit-inducing schmulzt (is that a word?) apart from one scene involving some fairy lights and ice skates. All the characters are solid and well-rounded, except perhaps David Martin who is a little too male-model for it to be believable. This doesn't really spoil it, however. There are some genuinely funny scenes, notably the Christmas dinner, edging just on the right (moderate) side of farcical. The characters are likable, the story has a warmth to it, and there a zillion worse Christmas rom-coms with far bigger budgets. So, well worth watching.

Very cute movie!!! I would recommend it for anyone asking for a little smile or just if you have free time and want to relax. it's the season for a movie like this anyway!!! It's romantic, takes places during Christmas time and a little interesting as well. Of course this is a comment coming from a person who loves lovey dovey girly movies. Oh it's definitely a chick flick..!!!! Girls would enjoy it more than anyone else and omggg MARIO LOPEZ is gorgeous haha. Both Hart and Lopez did some decent acting. I personally think Hart has looked better then she appeared in this movie but she didn't look all that bad either. Worth watching once at least.

You may find this funny or you may like wonder at the intelligence of all involved in this tripe. Lopez is one of those actresses who acts loopy very well, and loopy this character is. Needs a boyfriend. Hers has dumped her just as she's taking him off home for Christmas to intro to desperate parents longing for her to settle down. When you see what happens in the rest of the film, you understand very well why he dumped her - he got out while the going was good. So Lopez abducts at gunpoint some bloke she encounters in a restaurant. She lashes him to car seat. At her family home which is in the back of a snow-swamped beyond, he tries desperately to get them to help him escape but they all think he's got a wild sense of humour and hasn't their girl found a great guy etc. You can now see that her family's as insane as she is and all this indicates to any normal man that this is not a family you should ever get involved with. The guy eventually gives up trying to escape given that no-one will help him, every effort he makes is thwarted. At this stage I started jumping through the recording, picking up on the odd moments that indicate he gradually gets to like these lunatics and especially the ghastly heroine. Well, each to his or her own, and perhaps these idiots are his type. I can see too that some people will find this movie great fun so I wouldn't disagree the varying reports on this website of it. You can see it as hilarious farce or as pathetic rubbish, take your pick. But I would suggest you don't attempt to buy the DVD before you've seen the movie and decided if you can stomach it as if you can't that DVD will soon be in the bin. I love real farce, but in my view this is such staggeringly inept farce that you could include it the list of movies so ghastly that they are almost funny.

An utterly ridiculous premise. A girl breaks up with her boy friend, and kidnaps a guy with hand cuffs to get him to pose as her boy friend for Christmas with her family. Make sense? Of course not, but it doesn't matter. Even using her Sabrina powers, I doubt the tiny MJ Hart could over power Mario Lopez. Nor is it likely the parents would be fooled by this absurd scheme, especially when the guy starts yelling to them for help! Well, it's a rom-com, so anything goes. On top of that, the Christmas theme demands the exact sentimental outcome you'll see coming more than 50 light years away. Even if you can't give it the poetic license it needs (a lot, lol), you can still laugh at how ludicrous the whole thing is. Silly nonsense, but utterly harmless. For a brainless diversion, this one, believe it or not, works.