Happiest Season | Full Movie | Movies Anywhere

These frustrations exist to such an extent that it's difficult to appreciate the admittedly effective [actors], who can only do so much to try to save this insipid film.

...a well-meaning and progressive comedy...

[T]he film misses the opportunity to queer the holiday romance genre itself, by shifting the expectations of the form and asserting that a happy ending need not be the conventional romantic one.

Proving a conservative format can change is well and good, but there's also something to be said for just leaving it behind.

It's the movie equivalent of one of those specialty caffeinated holiday drinks like a Toasted White Chocolate Mocha or a Chestnut Praline Latte - a guilty pleasure filled with sweetness and warmth, but also an abundance of empty calories.