Naughty & Nice

Naughty & Nice

******THIS MOVIE IS CALLED Christmas MIX ON DVD***** ******THIS MOVIE IS CALLED Christmas MIX ON DVD***** ******THIS MOVIE IS CALLED Christmas MIX ON DVD***** Pepper Sterling is a cynical and funny radio dee-jay. When Pepper's latest radio antics anger an important advertising executive, he gets shipped over to a sister station in small town America to serve out his suspension until the dust blows over and now must co-host a show with Sandy Love who is a radio shrink. Thrown together she is immediately at odds with Pepper When Samantha and Pepper's catches the attention of the small town, their joint show becomes a hit and they start to see something in each other. Will they fall in love? Well Duh! There is nothing new in this film. I have a feeling it was re- written to have a "Christmas Theme" added to it. The acting s fine and the film has very memorable moments. In general the film is too predictable. There is also a love triangle in this film and I felt sorry for the odd man out. He was not a bad man but yet he gets the short end of the stick here. He was a nice guy.

Man, who did the score for this movie because half of it sounded like there was xylophone quota. In the end, it was watchable from a production and mostly acting standpoint, but as a love story, it's really bad.

Nothing new here with a man acting like a stuck up know it all thinking he is so great. Forced to move to a small town after behaving bad at the radio show. Of course he and the female radio host is gonna fall for each other after him suddenly going nice. But it all happens so fast. And at the end when he propose like how did that happen. Where did the town come from, did he secretly cal them on the way there. And it being around Christmas, I didn't get any Christmas feeling at all. Could have been a regular movie at anytime of the year but with a Christmas tree trying to make it in the Christmas category. A Okey movie that became a little boring at the end with a ridiculous end.

This is one of the most cliche movies I have ever seen. A TV dinner. The end scene where the radio audience teleports to Pepper's location so the ending marriage proposal can happen is physically impossible. The writer should be ashamed.

My Christmas film viewings over-time have been a very mixed bag. With some surprisingly good hits, where regardless of how predictable they are succeed in being full of charm, warmth and heart so succeeding in being light-hearted and undemanding fun. But also some quite big misses, where the characters are not likeable, everything is forced and shallow with implausibility too in some of the worst cases, the acting and writing being weak and basically with just nothing to them. 'Naughty and Nice' is in the middling category. Not a terrible film, though a few elements are executed quite badly. Also not a particularly good one, despite some things executed well. If anything, for me it was a bit of a mixed bag and not easy to rate or review, which is not always a nice thing to feel for me as someone who is trying to be more assertive and definite (still a struggle just to say). There are far worse Christmas films, and overall films, out there than 'Naughty and Nice', but also better on both counts. There are good things. It doesn't look too cheap, with the scenery being particularly attractive. The cast is a likeable one, with Haylie Duff a beguiling lead. She and Tilky Jones, also amiable, have a nice chemistry when it becomes more settled. It does have fun and cute moments and some nice energy. What hurts it though is the excessive predictability, where almost everything is obvious from having seen almost everything in the plot happen many times with similar developments. While Duff and Jones are good together, the actual relationship development is implausibly rushed and the ending is also rushed and too tidy. The script too often is very overripe, the banter being sharp to begin with but got too over the top and cheesy later. All the characters are underdeveloped and have vague decision making. Really disliked the music, which is really repetitive and canned sounding. Concluding, neither terrible or particularly good. Middling middle of the road more like. 5/10.

The leads do what they're given with professionalism. But the writing is so bad I wanted to throw rotten apples at them. Nobody is either interesting or believable as anything but a character in one of these horrible Christmas rom-coms. I actually love good holiday rom-coms. This ain't one of them.

I watched this awhile ago. I just watched it again. It is funny. The leads are funny. The scenery is nice. I love the radio station. You go through the gift shop to get to it. Very funny. The story is good. The one minus? Eric Petersen. Saw him on Big Bang. Not funny. Sorry.

So there's a giant plot hole right in the middle of this movie where the two leads break up for some reason that makes no sense to me. I assumed it was because the Dr wasn't willing to move to LA because it would require her moving away from her mom and/or giving up her radio show but immediately afterwards she talks about quitting just because it reminds her of the dude and shortly after that she decides to move to Dallas with the guy who she was sort of just killing time with prior to meeting Pepper. So essentially there was nothing keeping her in Colorado, he was clearly into her and looking for a relationship and she just got pissed and ended things for no reason. Super lazy writing there. That being said as far as cheesy Christmas movies go this one was fairly decent. The story was fun, the acting was pretty good, all in all good watch.