Sara Vancamp (Eva LaRue ) is a busy mom with no Christmas spirit. Christine (Summer Glau) an elf from Santas village who wonders if there could be more to life than making toys in the North Pole comes to the real world to help the VanCamp family mom Sara (La Rue) dad Scott (Gauthier) and their two kids re-discover Christmas spirit.
Review
I'm a little late with my review but still ... To be honest I watched the movie exclusively because of Summer Glau. Otherwise I'm really not in Christmas movies. So I started watching the movie with no expectations but to see another good performance of gorgeous Summer Glau. But who would have thought ... I actually liked a movie! A lot! Not only that Summer's performance was excellent also other actors delivered very good performances and even the story was good. I actually liked Santa in this one. Sure you can't expect deep psychological studies elaborate relationships social criticism from a Christmas movies. They're here to entertain to cheer us up and this movie succeeded in each and every aspect. The story's nice the actors good but what overwhelms the most is really Summer's outstanding performance. It's simply amazing how she manages to capture the viewer with only a smile and makes even the worse dialogues good (not that there were any bad or stupid dialogues in this movie). I think that she's one of the most underused actresses in this business. It's really funny that she even manages to curb the ratings of the episodes where she has guest appearance. Eva LaRue was also excellent. i know her from CSIMiami and this was something completely different but she managed it with flying colors. Well done Eva! The other actors were not quite so good (at least for my taste) but still far better than 90% of performances in other movies. Pity that we don't get a sequel this year. It would be nice to see how Christine and Dave managed to fit in into real life or if Vancamps managed to keep the Christmas spirit. Nice movie meant to entertain and it managed it perfectly.