Love any ice castle movies, they are so beautiful and such a magical setting! But I do prefer hallmarks other ice castles movies over this one as the story was very lacklustre. There's no one the niece can come over to work for 5 hours and it magically helps finish the castle- this requires professionals with ice sculptures and architects! I thought all royal activities were going to be at the castle but it was just made for 3 of royals? What about the children the prince talked about making the slide for? Where are they? The ball was in a regular building and many scenes were at boring non ice buildings which was disappointing. How is the paparazzi allowed there? Where is the security? There is zero security anywhere! When the prince runs off to spend a day with the main girl it was funny that no one knew where he went nor did they care. No search party for if he got eaten by a polar bear. Maybe Meghan markle should have watched this movie to get a realistic look at the lack of security even royals get. These royals were really on their own with just the gossiping staff. The story was okay, not very interesting. The villains turn out magically good at the end and only wish the prince well and will do really anything to keep they jobs and pretend like they have no ulterior motives. The king and queen looked nothing like a king and queen. The prince's fake accent made me laugh. I liked that it was an older couple and cast compared to some of hallmarks recent line ups with very young main casts that don't know how to act and just stare at each other. Maybe they weren't allowed to film more areas of the ice castle, but it would have been nice to see more. The random storyline of the woman's career in helping people suffering from natural disasters was slightly interesting but it didn't amount to anything and seemed to just be thrown in there so her career wasn't the typical freelance writer, photographer, social media blogger. Although any of those would have made more sense with why the prince would ask for help for his speech. Again, where are his staff to write speeches for him? Our presidents don't even write their own speeches. Not a great movie but better than a lot of other ones.
Review of A Royal Christmas Crush
