October 22, 2025 • 33 mins
Get ready for a match made in holiday heaven! A Christmas Angel Match brings together Meghan Ory and Benjamin Ayres in a festive new Hallmark Channel romance that’s equal parts heartwarming and magical. When two Christmas Angels with totally opposite styles are tasked with uniting soulmates before the big day – all while facing a looming department downsizing – sparks fly in more ways than one. It’s the perfect blend of holiday charm, unexpected connection, and classic Hallmark magic.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is a bramble jam podcast. Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark,
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a Hallmark review podcast. I'm Megan and I'm a longtime
Hallmark fan. I'm Wendy. I'm a former Hallmark hater. We're
back with the movie number two of the Countdown to
Christmas season, A Christmas Angel Match, which originally aired on Sunday,
October nineteenth, and is currently available to stream on Hallmark Plus.
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I got a good one today too, you do. And
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chatting with you guys around the table, Wendy, what are
you drinking this morning? My classic black tea because I'm
super fun? An English breakfast, yes, ma'am, not even the
joy tea, not today, No, what about you? I have
a Starbucks an espresso Pumpkin spice coffee pod, and I
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added to it the new or new to me Starbucks
Brown Sugar Espresso oat milk creamer, which is delightful. I
recommend you look for it if you are a fan
of the brown sugar shaken espresso, which I am. I
cannot quit them. I feel like you used to make
your own at home, though I did. I did, But
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I like this creamer. I used to make my own
brown sugar shaken espressos at home. I liked very much.
But I like this screamer is for adding to hot
coffee sometimes I like a simpler approach. Got it cool? Yeah?
All right, well let's jump right into a Christmas Angel Match, which,
for some reason, my brain wants to call Project Angel
Match every single time. With a synopsis, two Christmas Angels
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with opposite styles must unite soulmates before the holiday while
dealing with department downsizing and their own unexpected connection. Christy
will Wolf takes on double duty as both director and
executive producer of a Christmas Angel Match. This marks her
forty six project as a director and her third collaboration
with Megan Ory in just three years. The script was
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written by Megan Ori According to IMDb, this is her
first writing project. Megan also stars as Monica. She's best
known for her longtime roles on Chesapeake Shores and Once
Upon a Time, but we last saw her opposite her
husband in the twenty twenty four holiday movie Believe in Christmas.
I did read an interview with Megan where she says
she's already working on a sequel. She's got some ideas
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wait as sequel to this indeed. Now, oh it's just
early days. Nothing that has been picked up or announced,
but she definitely she would love to move on to
the next one, got it. Benjamin airstars as Michael, with
an impressive one hundred and seven acting credits. Ben currently
appears in the CW's Family Law and will soon return
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to Hallmark as part of the True Justice sequels. Yes,
parts two and three are on the way. I'm guessing
twenty twenty six sometime, but who knows. I here's having Yeah. Lendera,
she only goes by Lendera joins the cast as Daisy.
She's best known for portraying Sydney in the CW's Sullivan's
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Cross Sing. She's also familiar to Hamewark fans from her
Apparents and Believe in Christmas. Francesco Filiche stars as Patrick,
marking his first ever Hamewark appearance with fourteen acting credits.
French has previously been seen an Alert, Missing Persons Unit
and The Manhattan Project. Michael Dixon plays Gabrielle. Michael has
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thirty seven acting credits and appeared last on Hallmark in
Head Over Hills in twenty twenty four. Amanda Jordan plays Mirabelle.
She's both a singer and an actress, and this movie
marks her eighth acting credit. She previously appeared in Feeling
Butterflies from twenty twenty two. Jordan Shore plays Daisy's bestie Marcus.
This is his fourteenth acting credit and first time on Hallmark.
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Danielle Evie Chambers plays Darcy with just nine acting credits.
This is also her first time on Hallmark. Linda McCurdy
plays Patrick's adoptive grandmother. Linda has just two acting credits,
but Linda is also a real life criminal defense lawyer
practicing in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Whow As g Simpson plays
Daisy's grandfather Nathan, with six acting credits. He is also
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a new face on Hallmark. This movie was filmed in
Ottawa on t Canada and the spring of twenty twenty five.
Before landing on a Christmas Angel Match, the movie had
two earlier working titles. It was first called Touched by
a Christmas Angel, then later Christmas Angel Effect. Maybe this
is why you can't land on a final title for it,
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Maybe because it just has had so many different titles.
Perhaps maybe let's take a quick break and we'll come
right back with our first impressions. Hey, Wendy, what is
your first impression of a Christmas Angel Match? Well? I
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didn't think I'd ever say this, but I thought that
flash Mob be kind of slayd I was. It is
one just what? Oh? No, my first impression is I
knew this movie would take us to Heaven, but I
didn't know heaven looked like the inside of an Ikea.
Oh the exposed indust real ceilings. Yeah, I hear you.
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I gotta I have some thoughts on Heaven. I haven'kay
thoughts on Heaven. Let's talk what we liked, Okay. I
liked the concept of this movie, like angels. I like
a like an angel storyline, and I like angels helping
people who are super distracted in a tech heavy World.
I thought this was an interesting out of the box
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kind of storyline for Hallmark. Yeah, I agree. I like
the take that it's harder for people to make connections
romantic or otherwise because we're so insular and focused on
our devices. It's kind of so true. You know. It
kind of made me feel bad about myself. Yeah, believe me.
I was like, maybe this is why I have no
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friends because I am constantly have aer pods and or
my face is down in my phone. You know, do
you have you ever heard of a device called the brick? No,
it's basically a small magnetic device that is designed to
curb your screen time. Like basically, you set it up
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however you want, and when you tap your phone to it,
it locks you out of whatever apps. Oh and you
can't get back in until you physically tap the device again,
So you can't just like bypass it with a password.
So if you say, like I'm going to block all
my social media and then you go run errands, you
can't get back in until you get home and unblock it,
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or for me, I'm considering it. That's how bad the
addiction is right now. So to say that this movie
spoke to me would not be overstating it, right, right.
I do think this movie was a little polarizing, and
I have some thoughts perhaps on why a little later on,
But overall, like you said, I enjoyed the movie itself,
and I enjoyed the concept a lot. I think it's
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a nice contrast to our first movie, which was very
classically Hallmark or Royal Montana Christmas, really classic Hallmark Christmas
movie in a lot of ways, and this one stepped
outside of that box. Not too far, though, No, I
think it. I don't. I agree with you. It still
fits within the parameters of what people are looking for.
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But I think it's it's trying new things. Right. You're
not wrong about polarizing. We do that first impressions on
our Instagram, and I've seen some really on the spectrum
comments about it. Kind of surprised. Yeah, it's really run
the gamut. I've seen multiple people both on our Instagram,
in our Facebook group, and then other places across the
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internet saying they didn't even finish the movie, which honestly
blows my mind. Me too. But I do have some thoughts,
But let's keep putting on what we liked. Okay, I
liked the magical realism elements to this. It's charming, you know,
a little like snappy fingers and some snow is falling,
or a little like twinkle or whatever. I'm you know,
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I'm easily entertained by that stuff. Oh me too. I
like that too. It makes me feel Christmas magic when
I'm still in a pumpkin spice cocky frame of mine.
Exactly exactly. I also really enjoyed the pacing and the
dialogue between Michael and Monica. I thought they spoke to
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each other in a snappy, sarcastic way that I enjoy
quite a bit. I didn't think it was mean spirited.
I did see some commentary that they thought some people
thought the things they said to each other were mean.
I didn't feel that way. There was one line that
made me lol. She tells Michael, we're not arguing, You're
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just wrong, and I was like, I am stealing that
for myself. I thought the dialogue was great too, and
I think they were a little rough around the edges
and learning how to interact with each other because they
both did things in very different ways. But I agree
it wasn't mean spirited. They just were kind of like
a square peg in a round whole situation. They couldn't
quite find their footing together. And I liked later on
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in the movie when they talk about why they were
perhaps paired together, and she was like, Oh, maybe I
should have had this conversation before we started working together.
It's a nice self aware moment. Yeah, Benjamin Ayirs and
Megan or are the stars of this movie, but not
just in that they receive top billing. I mean they
carry this movie for me. They do a really nice
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job of having an innocent, earnest vibe about them, which
sets them apart from the tender hearts. And it was
very interesting for me to note because we started watching
the movie. My husband goes, oh, the dead people are
going to find love, and I was like, well, if
their matchmaking goes, obviously they're going to get together. But
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what was interesting to me is halfway through the movie,
I go, they're not dead. Angels and humans are separate
beings in this movie, and oh my god, wait and
let me just stop you there. This is all in
my wishes. Oh no, okay, Well, I just have a
lot of questions about it, but like, go ahead and
we can circle back to this. I have questions about
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it too. Well, let me just stick with the like part,
which is simply that I think their acting did a
really nice job of sending that message that they were
separate from the tender hearts, that they had separate experiences,
that innocence that they brought to their acting. I'm often
tempted to describe it as like a buddy the elf,
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like you know, Benjamin kind of had that like excitement
about life. It wasn't quite what's a fad for color?
But I really liked it. I thought it was a
good choice on their parts. Yeah, two thoughts here. They're
not dead. She says that one time we were born angels,
so they're not dead, right, No, there, which is my point. Like,
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going into this, I assume that angels are simply people
who have passed, and because I think that's often how
they're purtray right, like right, I don't actually know how
angels work, but that was the assumption going in. And yes,
they are fully separate beings who are born as angels. Right.
My second thought is I really enjoyed Michael's fun philosophy.
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I was into it, you said, like, you know, he
was like Ernest And I read some commentary that he
came off as egotistical. I don't think so at all.
I mean either completely different way of approaching things and
not egotistical. I just think he was His philosophy was
totally different, and I was into his philosophy. I don't
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I was not. That doesn't diminish like what Monica's way
of doing things in my mind. To me, they were
just different, but I enjoyed both of them. To your point,
when he look you talked about the dialogue in this movie,
the Great Snappy Dialogue. There's some great lines lines they
call them devious dms, which really hit home for me.
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They say he dodges responsibility like a snowball fight. And
my favorite is the cheeky little moment where Michael talks
about like the life of the tender hearts that he's
interested in and he's like, I'm interested in human activities
that require a partner. And it's like long pause and
he goes like snowball fights, and I think that speaks
to what you're talking about, Like he's just here for
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a good time right right that particular line, I was like,
where are they going with this? For like a half
a second, I was like, where are they going with
this and it turned out real sweet. Yes, speaking of
the DVUS DM's line, that was from Mirabel, and I
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just thought she was adorable. Her delivery landed every single
time for me. Yeah, she's I think they could have
done more with her like I would have. I would
have been happy to see more of her. Agree. Agree?
I have several more likes. Do you want me to
just run through them? Sure. Ben's wardrobe I thought was sharp,
looked great just and she even made a comment at
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one time I bought his fitted shirts and I was like,
I don't hate it. I don't hate any of it.
I love that. The holiday decor throughout I thought was
absolutely stunning. I have dogged on so many movies where
just I have said, you know what looks like copy
lobby has thrown up all over the place. But I
thought the Christmas decor in this movie looked really nice.
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I agree, very classic. Yes. The another thing I really
liked was the subtle LGBTQ moment we have a her
best friend. I was like, it was a quiet yeah,
you know, quiet yay, A quiet yes. I mean I
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need more, I need more homework, but a quiet yea
came from me and my last thing. I really liked that,
And I'm gonna circle to the flash mob scene. I
thought it was so joy filled and cinematic. It was
like slow most and low laughing, and it set a
whole vibe. But what was really funny to me was
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right as it's starting and they're trying to get Patrick
to dance, or trying to force Patrick to dance, and
they're like almost mashing him into like this, and I
just thought that was so hilarious. It was executed beautifully.
I just thought it was really funny. Now, would I
ever participate in a mob dance? No, would I want
to see one unfold in front of me. Sure, I
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thought it was fun. Well, we'll come back a little
bit to the flash mob. It's nothing to be worried about.
Let me just wrap up my legs here. I think
they did a really nice job of world building this
Heaven the DCC. We take the time in the beginning
of the movie to set the scene. We learn who
these people are, we learn their motivation. We know about
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Monica and Michael and why their mission to set up
Daisy and Patrick is so important. Gabriel, there is a
real opportunity to make him exist off camera the entire movie,
and he doesn't, which I appreciate. I like the humorous
take that they're being, the thread of them being merged
with the cupids and the Valentine Department, the economy spars
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no one that being said, I loved. I liked all
of that. As we transition to our wishes, I would
like to say, this movie is very dialogue heavy, and
I like those scenes, like the yoga scene. Right, there's
not a lot happening, but they're connecting, they're having a conversation,
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and I think particularly when the dialogue is being delivered
by Megan and Ben, who had this great on camera
rapport who I really connected with. I liked it a lot.
I think it is possible that there could have been
viewers who wanted a little more showing than telling. If
you look at the top of the movie, it's like
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fifteen minutes the whole like pre commercial, is them setting
the stage. I like it. I like details, but I
wonder if that's where they lost people. Oh interesting, I
don't think you're wrong, And isn't that ironic considering the
theme of this movie is that we live in a
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distracted world and we don't have any you know, attention
span to listen to details. Where's alanis when you need
her exactly? I love that. Well, let's talk more about
your wishes. Why is Heaven downsizing? Yeah? I will. What
is there a financial issue? That's a great question. That's
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a great question. Why are there real world problems in Paradise?
I don't understand. This should not be an issue. At
the end of the movie, Gabriel's like you saved Christmas,
I'm like, what happens if these two don't get together?
I don't. I don't understand how that save what? What's
the consequence? Yeah? I don't. I don't know. I also
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don't fully understand the connection between like Matt, like the
Department of Christmas connections, Like why is there a Christmas
deadline on these matches other than it being like the
most wonderful time of year. I don't know. That's a
good question. That is a good question. One of my
biggest wishes. I hate it. I hate the uptight female
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meets the fun guy trope. Sure, I hate it. I
will talk about it in every single movie we watch
when it comes up. I hated it. But but Ben
is so charming as the punk guy. I was like,
all in, yeah, you're right, I do need to loose
it up, you know, as he's talking about fun. You
know I personally have a problem with fun, right, So
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sure he was speaking to me in a in a sense.
Well look at one point he's like, you're all about
the rules. Husband just is like finally laughing to him,
because I am a rules girl. I am like, if
this then that these things must be in place for
the following things to happen. And it spoke to me
that said. I didn't find a grating again because I
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thought you're right. Ben was so charming in his delivery,
and part of me is like, can we flip the
script because the person, the person who has to mellow
out was Monica here like she was the one, but
he does acknowledge later on that they both have their
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own strengths in this department. So yeah, it grates on
me too because I feel like people are like that
bitch right, and I'm like, that's not fair, that's not fair.
She's had to play by the rules the whole time.
Listen to tailor ships the man right exactly exactly? Can
somebody explain the ending to me? Are they human now, like,
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do they live on earth? This is what I don't understand,
because these people were like magically appearing in and out
of places, right And at first I was like, oh, no,
one can see them? Yes, same for a long time,
I was like, nobody can see them, Okay, that makes sense.
And then the guy at the Christmas tree lot sees them, yeah,
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and wants to take their picture under the mistletoe, and
so on and so forth. And then there's another instant
as well, and I was like, wait, okay, people can
see them. So are these angels that are living alone
amongst humans? Like they're appearing as human? Like, what is happening?
I don't understand that. I struggled with too, Like when
they disappear in front of the Christmas tree eye and
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he like, oh, it's like, oh where'd you go? What?
They literally disappeared before your eyes. The details this goes
back to us not being any fun. The details of
how the angels exist among the humans are unclear. And
then at the end, Gabriel's like, you're being promoted to
a life of love? What does that mean? He's fingers.
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They're in all white, but they experienced their first kiss,
which we forgot to talk about. It's confusing to me.
Was there a scene that was cut out that perhaps
explains it better? Or am I just demanding too many
details from a movie about matchmaking angels? Yeah, exactly, exactly.
Sometimes we just have to go all right. I accept
it for what it is, right. I think you're right.
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Let's talk about that scene. Were their first kiss with
the eyes open? Yeah? I mean it was like they
were like testing it a little bit, right. I mean,
if you've gotten nearly six hundred years without a kiss,
maybe you're like a little nervous. Agree. Agree? I thought
I thought their kiss was nice. I mean, it's no
Warren Christy. Now I'm glad that they He's like, should
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we do that again? Oh yeah, oh yeah, it definitely
needed a do over for sure. Very cute, very very cute.
Can we talk about the flash mob? I'm not gonna
I'm not going to I'm not going to ruin it
for you. I'm just surprised because I literally wrote in
my notes, the flash mob? Is that your biggest nightmare,
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that that erupts around you? Oh no, I don't care
if it's happening around me. I don't want to be
pulled into it. I don't want to be mosh pitted
into That's my point. It rose up and they were
in the middle of it. I mean, poor Michael. That
scene with Michael is my worst nightmare. You and I
have been adjacent to a mob, A mob, a mob scene,
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a flash mob right in San Diego. You were there
at that time, right. I don't even know what you're
talking about. At blog her eleven when we met, there
was a flash mob at like lunch that day. Oh gosh, wow,
I've erased that from my memory. Okay. I mean, well,
that's the thing though, is like flash moobs have kind
of fallen out of the zio. It's very dated. Yeah,
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but I guess when you're six hundred years old, maybe
time has a different meaning. True, true, ten years recent? Sorry,
go ahead. My question is this, though, the flash mob
is like a pre organized, choreographed dance, right. I don't
think normal people just jump in on it, unless it's
like line dancing, which maybe people did know, or the
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macarena or something like that. Yes, correct, which I think
is demonstrated in the fact that Megan and Ben do
what I can't even describe as dancing now, I can't
dance no shade for me, but they're just kind of like,
I don't know, they're just kind of jumping and flailing
their arms around. Look, I thought it was damn delightful.
It when this scene ends and everybody has dispersed and
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they're just still there like dancing. Totally reminded me of
a time where my husband and I went to the
House of Blues and we saw a cover band and
everybody's on We're all on the dance floor dance in
to this cover band. It was playing Jesse's Girl, and
all of a sudden we look around and we're the
only two out theres. How funny you are. It was
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twenty five years ago. That fun anymore, but it totally
reminded me of that scene, and it just thought it
brought so much joy to me. I just thought it
was very funny. I'm laughing to myself as you say,
not that fun anymore, because I was as I was
watching this movie with my husband last night, I turned
up and I go, do you like my new glasses?
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Do you like my readers?
Speaker 2 (25:21):
I needed an extra pair so I could keep one
in every corner of the hilarious That's Romance twenty years later.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Oh, this brings up a really good point. This brings
up a really good point back to the movie. So
Ben is built on making I'm sorry, Ben is wants
to make these relationships built on like fun, right, And
it made me think about it. It really made me
think about it because like after like the romance has
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kind of died, like the attraction like if but if
you are in a relationship built on common interest and
fun like that is a solid relationship. Yes, you genuinely
need to enjoy being around each other exactly. The other
thing that made me think is a lot of the
relationships that Michael set up. My undertanding is they were
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not forever relationships, right they ended? Am I remembering that correctly?
That's correct? And I was thinking that's really interesting because
as a person who's been married for twenty years, if
I were to get divorced tomorrow, would you be like, oh,
her marriage failed, or would you be like, oh, she
had a twenty year relationship, like she raised a family, right,
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Like are we looking at things? Does something have to
last forever for it to be valuable and meaningful? Right? Exactly?
It would just have been like the right thing at
that time. I did think about that. This was a real,
real thinker. I guess it was one last little wish.
I mean, it wouldn't be me if I did and
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mention it. I do want to say most of our
classic Hallmark tropes in this movie do appear in the
strategies used to connect our two souls, which I thought
was a nice, fun little twist. However, we do have
a misunderstanding trope check womp yep, yeah, which they cleared
up quickly, but you know, I was like, come on,
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stick around for ten extra seconds. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I'm
telling you me, if I overheard somebody, I wouldn't just
like walk away. I'm bar Yeah, I want to hear
the whole conversation at least exactly. Well, are you ready
to talk to you? See that? I am. Let's hear it. Okay,
Well I have a I'm gonna save my my big
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one for a second. I really only have one. Okay,
so let me hear yours. It's Benjamin Ayer's hair. Okay,
now it's not a negative. Best hair in the bits. Okay.
My husband was watching this movie with me, and my
husband has an eye for good hair. Like you know,
we have our thing. He has an eye for hair.
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So as we're watching, when they would jump from place
to place, heaven to earth or within earthly locations, his
hair would often change because they were He's like, oh,
his hair's got a lot shorter. Oh his hair got
a lot longer. Oh his hair's curlier than it was
on that scene. Because obviously there are different locations that
are filmed on different days. But right he was like,
oh his hair changed again. He was on hair alert.
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I didn't notice one time until I went back and looked,
but my husband was on hair patrol. You know, it's
so funny that you say that, because if you follow
Vinjamin Air's Instagram, often he'll mention his hair like it's
very curly and sometimes it's like curly and wild, and
he'll be like, the hair is doing hair today. Yeah,
(28:46):
the hair is hairing. Uh huh yeah. So like it's
so funny. Maybe your husband needs to follow him on
Instagram and like, my husband's not on Instagram. You're right,
I forgot, okay, whatever. Anyway, I love Ben's hair. I
thought he like a real sharp in this entire movie,
I do looked great. One hundred percent agree with you.
There is zero shade being thrown at Ben's hair just
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one of those true did you see that moment? My
digit see that are one? The footloose joke I thought
was so good. I did the show how do you?
How do you? Because yeah, what is this footloose? I died,
and then he had to explain it to her because
she didn't know what yes was. Just thought it was
great that it was so great, especially like his reaction
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was like, how yeah, I thought it was so good.
The other thing is that they call their department in
the DCC, and you know the the DCC is Dallas
Cowboys Cheerleaders. I had to write it down because I
could not was like, what could it possibly stand for?
It was so funny to me, so so funny. And
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my final dig you see that was a true did
you see that? As I was watching the movie, I
flipped out. Michael and Monica are somewhere they're trying to
match make. They're like at a market or craft fair,
I don't remember. And what do I see in the
on a display and the background is a bunch of
Romance University sweatshirts, and I to that, I applaud you. Yes,
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that's so fun I thought that was so amazing. I
hope that other people noticed it as well, because you know,
Ben is so he's a champion for his Romance University brand,
and I like their mission over there. I just thought
it was so fun and clever to see it in
the background of this movie. I think the hardcore airs
heads definitely noticed airs heads. Yes, you're right, you're right.
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Before we get to our rating, where are we ranking
this on the smoochimeter smoa meter? What was the what
was the range? I forget well, the pulled out of
a hat yesterday. I mean I said ten out of ten,
flaming lips, I give it, yeah, solid seven. That's exactly
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what I was gonna say. Hey, I love so I
love this new little, you know, segment of our We
need to create the image. We need to get it
up on Instagram. We got to. We got to, Yeah
for sure. All right, let's talk. What did you rate
a Christmas Angel Match? I gave it three point seven
five stars? Whoa? I gave it four point two five stars. Oh,
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I liked it. I'm just you know what, I think
I'm just tiptoeing into this season that maybe a little conservatively. Sure, sure,
you want to save those ratings exactly just in case. Well,
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joy tea, not today, No, what about you? I have
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added to it the new or new to me Starbucks
Brown Sugar Espresso oat milk creamer, which is delightful. I
recommend you look for it if you are a fan
of the brown sugar shaken espresso, which I am. I
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All right, well let's jump right into a Christmas Angel Match, which,
for some reason, my brain wants to call Project Angel
Match every single time. With a synopsis, two Christmas Angels
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with opposite styles must unite soulmates before the holiday while
dealing with department downsizing and their own unexpected connection. Christy
will Wolf takes on double duty as both director and
executive producer of a Christmas Angel Match. This marks her
forty six project as a director and her third collaboration
with Megan Ory in just three years. The script was
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written by Megan Ori According to IMDb, this is her
first writing project. Megan also stars as Monica. She's best
known for her longtime roles on Chesapeake Shores and Once
Upon a Time, but we last saw her opposite her
husband in the twenty twenty four holiday movie Believe in Christmas.
I did read an interview with Megan where she says
she's already working on a sequel. She's got some ideas
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wait as sequel to this indeed. Now, oh it's just
early days. Nothing that has been picked up or announced,
but she definitely she would love to move on to
the next one, got it. Benjamin airstars as Michael, with
an impressive one hundred and seven acting credits. Ben currently
appears in the CW's Family Law and will soon return
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to Hallmark as part of the True Justice sequels. Yes,
parts two and three are on the way. I'm guessing
twenty twenty six sometime, but who knows. I here's having Yeah. Lendera,
she only goes by Lendera joins the cast as Daisy.
She's best known for portraying Sydney in the CW's Sullivan's
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Cross Sing. She's also familiar to Hamewark fans from her
Apparents and Believe in Christmas. Francesco Filiche stars as Patrick,
marking his first ever Hamewark appearance with fourteen acting credits.
French has previously been seen an Alert, Missing Persons Unit
and The Manhattan Project. Michael Dixon plays Gabrielle. Michael has
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thirty seven acting credits and appeared last on Hallmark in
Head Over Hills in twenty twenty four. Amanda Jordan plays Mirabelle.
She's both a singer and an actress, and this movie
marks her eighth acting credit. She previously appeared in Feeling
Butterflies from twenty twenty two. Jordan Shore plays Daisy's bestie Marcus.
This is his fourteenth acting credit and first time on Hallmark.
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Danielle Evie Chambers plays Darcy with just nine acting credits.
This is also her first time on Hallmark. Linda McCurdy
plays Patrick's adoptive grandmother. Linda has just two acting credits,
but Linda is also a real life criminal defense lawyer
practicing in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Whow As g Simpson plays
Daisy's grandfather Nathan, with six acting credits. He is also
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a new face on Hallmark. This movie was filmed in
Ottawa on t Canada and the spring of twenty twenty five.
Before landing on a Christmas Angel Match, the movie had
two earlier working titles. It was first called Touched by
a Christmas Angel, then later Christmas Angel Effect. Maybe this
is why you can't land on a final title for it,
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Maybe because it just has had so many different titles.
Perhaps maybe let's take a quick break and we'll come
right back with our first impressions. Hey, Wendy, what is
your first impression of a Christmas Angel Match? Well? I
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didn't think I'd ever say this, but I thought that
flash Mob be kind of slayd I was. It is
one just what? Oh? No, my first impression is I
knew this movie would take us to Heaven, but I
didn't know heaven looked like the inside of an Ikea.
Oh the exposed indust real ceilings. Yeah, I hear you.
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I gotta I have some thoughts on Heaven. I haven'kay
thoughts on Heaven. Let's talk what we liked, Okay. I
liked the concept of this movie, like angels. I like
a like an angel storyline, and I like angels helping
people who are super distracted in a tech heavy World.
I thought this was an interesting out of the box
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kind of storyline for Hallmark. Yeah, I agree. I like
the take that it's harder for people to make connections
romantic or otherwise because we're so insular and focused on
our devices. It's kind of so true. You know. It
kind of made me feel bad about myself. Yeah, believe me.
I was like, maybe this is why I have no
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friends because I am constantly have aer pods and or
my face is down in my phone. You know, do
you have you ever heard of a device called the brick? No,
it's basically a small magnetic device that is designed to
curb your screen time. Like basically, you set it up
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however you want, and when you tap your phone to it,
it locks you out of whatever apps. Oh and you
can't get back in until you physically tap the device again,
So you can't just like bypass it with a password.
So if you say, like I'm going to block all
my social media and then you go run errands, you
can't get back in until you get home and unblock it,
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or for me, I'm considering it. That's how bad the
addiction is right now. So to say that this movie
spoke to me would not be overstating it, right, right.
I do think this movie was a little polarizing, and
I have some thoughts perhaps on why a little later on,
But overall, like you said, I enjoyed the movie itself,
and I enjoyed the concept a lot. I think it's
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a nice contrast to our first movie, which was very
classically Hallmark or Royal Montana Christmas, really classic Hallmark Christmas
movie in a lot of ways, and this one stepped
outside of that box. Not too far, though, No, I
think it. I don't. I agree with you. It still
fits within the parameters of what people are looking for.
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But I think it's it's trying new things. Right. You're
not wrong about polarizing. We do that first impressions on
our Instagram, and I've seen some really on the spectrum
comments about it. Kind of surprised. Yeah, it's really run
the gamut. I've seen multiple people both on our Instagram,
in our Facebook group, and then other places across the
(09:38):
internet saying they didn't even finish the movie, which honestly
blows my mind. Me too. But I do have some thoughts,
But let's keep putting on what we liked. Okay, I
liked the magical realism elements to this. It's charming, you know,
a little like snappy fingers and some snow is falling,
or a little like twinkle or whatever. I'm you know,
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I'm easily entertained by that stuff. Oh me too. I
like that too. It makes me feel Christmas magic when
I'm still in a pumpkin spice cocky frame of mine.
Exactly exactly. I also really enjoyed the pacing and the
dialogue between Michael and Monica. I thought they spoke to
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each other in a snappy, sarcastic way that I enjoy
quite a bit. I didn't think it was mean spirited.
I did see some commentary that they thought some people
thought the things they said to each other were mean.
I didn't feel that way. There was one line that
made me lol. She tells Michael, we're not arguing, You're
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just wrong, and I was like, I am stealing that
for myself. I thought the dialogue was great too, and
I think they were a little rough around the edges
and learning how to interact with each other because they
both did things in very different ways. But I agree
it wasn't mean spirited. They just were kind of like
a square peg in a round whole situation. They couldn't
quite find their footing together. And I liked later on
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in the movie when they talk about why they were
perhaps paired together, and she was like, Oh, maybe I
should have had this conversation before we started working together.
It's a nice self aware moment. Yeah, Benjamin Ayirs and
Megan or are the stars of this movie, but not
just in that they receive top billing. I mean they
carry this movie for me. They do a really nice
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job of having an innocent, earnest vibe about them, which
sets them apart from the tender hearts. And it was
very interesting for me to note because we started watching
the movie. My husband goes, oh, the dead people are
going to find love, and I was like, well, if
their matchmaking goes, obviously they're going to get together. But
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what was interesting to me is halfway through the movie,
I go, they're not dead. Angels and humans are separate
beings in this movie, and oh my god, wait and
let me just stop you there. This is all in
my wishes. Oh no, okay, Well, I just have a
lot of questions about it, but like, go ahead and
we can circle back to this. I have questions about
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it too. Well, let me just stick with the like part,
which is simply that I think their acting did a
really nice job of sending that message that they were
separate from the tender hearts, that they had separate experiences,
that innocence that they brought to their acting. I'm often
tempted to describe it as like a buddy the elf,
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like you know, Benjamin kind of had that like excitement
about life. It wasn't quite what's a fad for color?
But I really liked it. I thought it was a
good choice on their parts. Yeah, two thoughts here. They're
not dead. She says that one time we were born angels,
so they're not dead, right, No, there, which is my point. Like,
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going into this, I assume that angels are simply people
who have passed, and because I think that's often how
they're purtray right, like right, I don't actually know how
angels work, but that was the assumption going in. And yes,
they are fully separate beings who are born as angels. Right.
My second thought is I really enjoyed Michael's fun philosophy.
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I was into it, you said, like, you know, he
was like Ernest And I read some commentary that he
came off as egotistical. I don't think so at all.
I mean either completely different way of approaching things and
not egotistical. I just think he was His philosophy was
totally different, and I was into his philosophy. I don't
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I was not. That doesn't diminish like what Monica's way
of doing things in my mind. To me, they were
just different, but I enjoyed both of them. To your point,
when he look you talked about the dialogue in this movie,
the Great Snappy Dialogue. There's some great lines lines they
call them devious dms, which really hit home for me.
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They say he dodges responsibility like a snowball fight. And
my favorite is the cheeky little moment where Michael talks
about like the life of the tender hearts that he's
interested in and he's like, I'm interested in human activities
that require a partner. And it's like long pause and
he goes like snowball fights, and I think that speaks
to what you're talking about, Like he's just here for
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a good time right right that particular line, I was like,
where are they going with this? For like a half
a second, I was like, where are they going with
this and it turned out real sweet. Yes, speaking of
the DVUS DM's line, that was from Mirabel, and I
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just thought she was adorable. Her delivery landed every single
time for me. Yeah, she's I think they could have
done more with her like I would have. I would
have been happy to see more of her. Agree. Agree?
I have several more likes. Do you want me to
just run through them? Sure. Ben's wardrobe I thought was sharp,
looked great just and she even made a comment at
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one time I bought his fitted shirts and I was like,
I don't hate it. I don't hate any of it.
I love that. The holiday decor throughout I thought was
absolutely stunning. I have dogged on so many movies where
just I have said, you know what looks like copy
lobby has thrown up all over the place. But I
thought the Christmas decor in this movie looked really nice.
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I agree, very classic. Yes. The another thing I really
liked was the subtle LGBTQ moment we have a her
best friend. I was like, it was a quiet yeah,
you know, quiet yay, A quiet yes. I mean I
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need more, I need more homework, but a quiet yea
came from me and my last thing. I really liked that,
And I'm gonna circle to the flash mob scene. I
thought it was so joy filled and cinematic. It was
like slow most and low laughing, and it set a
whole vibe. But what was really funny to me was
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right as it's starting and they're trying to get Patrick
to dance, or trying to force Patrick to dance, and
they're like almost mashing him into like this, and I
just thought that was so hilarious. It was executed beautifully.
I just thought it was really funny. Now, would I
ever participate in a mob dance? No, would I want
to see one unfold in front of me. Sure, I
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thought it was fun. Well, we'll come back a little
bit to the flash mob. It's nothing to be worried about.
Let me just wrap up my legs here. I think
they did a really nice job of world building this
Heaven the DCC. We take the time in the beginning
of the movie to set the scene. We learn who
these people are, we learn their motivation. We know about
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Monica and Michael and why their mission to set up
Daisy and Patrick is so important. Gabriel, there is a
real opportunity to make him exist off camera the entire movie,
and he doesn't, which I appreciate. I like the humorous
take that they're being, the thread of them being merged
with the cupids and the Valentine Department, the economy spars
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no one that being said, I loved. I liked all
of that. As we transition to our wishes, I would
like to say, this movie is very dialogue heavy, and
I like those scenes, like the yoga scene. Right, there's
not a lot happening, but they're connecting, they're having a conversation,
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and I think particularly when the dialogue is being delivered
by Megan and Ben, who had this great on camera
rapport who I really connected with. I liked it a lot.
I think it is possible that there could have been
viewers who wanted a little more showing than telling. If
you look at the top of the movie, it's like
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fifteen minutes the whole like pre commercial, is them setting
the stage. I like it. I like details, but I
wonder if that's where they lost people. Oh interesting, I
don't think you're wrong, And isn't that ironic considering the
theme of this movie is that we live in a
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distracted world and we don't have any you know, attention
span to listen to details. Where's alanis when you need
her exactly? I love that. Well, let's talk more about
your wishes. Why is Heaven downsizing? Yeah? I will. What
is there a financial issue? That's a great question. That's
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a great question. Why are there real world problems in Paradise?
I don't understand. This should not be an issue. At
the end of the movie, Gabriel's like you saved Christmas,
I'm like, what happens if these two don't get together?
I don't. I don't understand how that save what? What's
the consequence? Yeah? I don't. I don't know. I also
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don't fully understand the connection between like Matt, like the
Department of Christmas connections, Like why is there a Christmas
deadline on these matches other than it being like the
most wonderful time of year. I don't know. That's a
good question. That is a good question. One of my
biggest wishes. I hate it. I hate the uptight female
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meets the fun guy trope. Sure, I hate it. I
will talk about it in every single movie we watch
when it comes up. I hated it. But but Ben
is so charming as the punk guy. I was like,
all in, yeah, you're right, I do need to loose
it up, you know, as he's talking about fun. You
know I personally have a problem with fun, right, So
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sure he was speaking to me in a in a sense.
Well look at one point he's like, you're all about
the rules. Husband just is like finally laughing to him,
because I am a rules girl. I am like, if
this then that these things must be in place for
the following things to happen. And it spoke to me
that said. I didn't find a grating again because I
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thought you're right. Ben was so charming in his delivery,
and part of me is like, can we flip the
script because the person, the person who has to mellow
out was Monica here like she was the one, but
he does acknowledge later on that they both have their
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own strengths in this department. So yeah, it grates on
me too because I feel like people are like that
bitch right, and I'm like, that's not fair, that's not fair.
She's had to play by the rules the whole time.
Listen to tailor ships the man right exactly exactly? Can
somebody explain the ending to me? Are they human now, like,
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do they live on earth? This is what I don't understand,
because these people were like magically appearing in and out
of places, right And at first I was like, oh, no,
one can see them? Yes, same for a long time,
I was like, nobody can see them, Okay, that makes sense.
And then the guy at the Christmas tree lot sees them, yeah,
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and wants to take their picture under the mistletoe, and
so on and so forth. And then there's another instant
as well, and I was like, wait, okay, people can
see them. So are these angels that are living alone
amongst humans? Like they're appearing as human? Like, what is happening?
I don't understand that. I struggled with too, Like when
they disappear in front of the Christmas tree eye and
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he like, oh, it's like, oh where'd you go? What?
They literally disappeared before your eyes. The details this goes
back to us not being any fun. The details of
how the angels exist among the humans are unclear. And
then at the end, Gabriel's like, you're being promoted to
a life of love? What does that mean? He's fingers.
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They're in all white, but they experienced their first kiss,
which we forgot to talk about. It's confusing to me.
Was there a scene that was cut out that perhaps
explains it better? Or am I just demanding too many
details from a movie about matchmaking angels? Yeah, exactly, exactly.
Sometimes we just have to go all right. I accept
it for what it is, right. I think you're right.
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Let's talk about that scene. Were their first kiss with
the eyes open? Yeah? I mean it was like they
were like testing it a little bit, right. I mean,
if you've gotten nearly six hundred years without a kiss,
maybe you're like a little nervous. Agree. Agree? I thought
I thought their kiss was nice. I mean, it's no
Warren Christy. Now I'm glad that they He's like, should
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we do that again? Oh yeah, oh yeah, it definitely
needed a do over for sure. Very cute, very very cute.
Can we talk about the flash mob? I'm not gonna
I'm not going to I'm not going to ruin it
for you. I'm just surprised because I literally wrote in
my notes, the flash mob? Is that your biggest nightmare,
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that that erupts around you? Oh no, I don't care
if it's happening around me. I don't want to be
pulled into it. I don't want to be mosh pitted
into That's my point. It rose up and they were
in the middle of it. I mean, poor Michael. That
scene with Michael is my worst nightmare. You and I
have been adjacent to a mob, A mob, a mob scene,
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a flash mob right in San Diego. You were there
at that time, right. I don't even know what you're
talking about. At blog her eleven when we met, there
was a flash mob at like lunch that day. Oh gosh, wow,
I've erased that from my memory. Okay. I mean, well,
that's the thing though, is like flash moobs have kind
of fallen out of the zio. It's very dated. Yeah,
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but I guess when you're six hundred years old, maybe
time has a different meaning. True, true, ten years recent? Sorry,
go ahead. My question is this, though, the flash mob
is like a pre organized, choreographed dance, right. I don't
think normal people just jump in on it, unless it's
like line dancing, which maybe people did know, or the
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macarena or something like that. Yes, correct, which I think
is demonstrated in the fact that Megan and Ben do
what I can't even describe as dancing now, I can't
dance no shade for me, but they're just kind of like,
I don't know, they're just kind of jumping and flailing
their arms around. Look, I thought it was damn delightful.
It when this scene ends and everybody has dispersed and
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they're just still there like dancing. Totally reminded me of
a time where my husband and I went to the
House of Blues and we saw a cover band and
everybody's on We're all on the dance floor dance in
to this cover band. It was playing Jesse's Girl, and
all of a sudden we look around and we're the
only two out theres. How funny you are. It was
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twenty five years ago. That fun anymore, but it totally
reminded me of that scene, and it just thought it
brought so much joy to me. I just thought it
was very funny. I'm laughing to myself as you say,
not that fun anymore, because I was as I was
watching this movie with my husband last night, I turned
up and I go, do you like my new glasses?
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Do you like my readers?
Speaker 2 (25:21):
I needed an extra pair so I could keep one
in every corner of the hilarious That's Romance twenty years later.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Oh, this brings up a really good point. This brings
up a really good point back to the movie. So
Ben is built on making I'm sorry, Ben is wants
to make these relationships built on like fun, right, And
it made me think about it. It really made me
think about it because like after like the romance has
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kind of died, like the attraction like if but if
you are in a relationship built on common interest and
fun like that is a solid relationship. Yes, you genuinely
need to enjoy being around each other exactly. The other
thing that made me think is a lot of the
relationships that Michael set up. My undertanding is they were
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not forever relationships, right they ended? Am I remembering that correctly?
That's correct? And I was thinking that's really interesting because
as a person who's been married for twenty years, if
I were to get divorced tomorrow, would you be like, oh,
her marriage failed, or would you be like, oh, she
had a twenty year relationship, like she raised a family, right,
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Like are we looking at things? Does something have to
last forever for it to be valuable and meaningful? Right? Exactly?
It would just have been like the right thing at
that time. I did think about that. This was a real,
real thinker. I guess it was one last little wish.
I mean, it wouldn't be me if I did and
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mention it. I do want to say most of our
classic Hallmark tropes in this movie do appear in the
strategies used to connect our two souls, which I thought
was a nice, fun little twist. However, we do have
a misunderstanding trope check womp yep, yeah, which they cleared
up quickly, but you know, I was like, come on,
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stick around for ten extra seconds. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I'm
telling you me, if I overheard somebody, I wouldn't just
like walk away. I'm bar Yeah, I want to hear
the whole conversation at least exactly. Well, are you ready
to talk to you? See that? I am. Let's hear it. Okay,
Well I have a I'm gonna save my my big
(27:41):
one for a second. I really only have one. Okay,
so let me hear yours. It's Benjamin Ayer's hair. Okay,
now it's not a negative. Best hair in the bits. Okay.
My husband was watching this movie with me, and my
husband has an eye for good hair. Like you know,
we have our thing. He has an eye for hair.
(28:02):
So as we're watching, when they would jump from place
to place, heaven to earth or within earthly locations, his
hair would often change because they were He's like, oh,
his hair's got a lot shorter. Oh his hair got
a lot longer. Oh his hair's curlier than it was
on that scene. Because obviously there are different locations that
are filmed on different days. But right he was like,
oh his hair changed again. He was on hair alert.
(28:24):
I didn't notice one time until I went back and looked,
but my husband was on hair patrol. You know, it's
so funny that you say that, because if you follow
Vinjamin Air's Instagram, often he'll mention his hair like it's
very curly and sometimes it's like curly and wild, and
he'll be like, the hair is doing hair today. Yeah,
(28:46):
the hair is hairing. Uh huh yeah. So like it's
so funny. Maybe your husband needs to follow him on
Instagram and like, my husband's not on Instagram. You're right,
I forgot, okay, whatever. Anyway, I love Ben's hair. I
thought he like a real sharp in this entire movie,
I do looked great. One hundred percent agree with you.
There is zero shade being thrown at Ben's hair just
(29:08):
one of those true did you see that moment? My
digit see that are one? The footloose joke I thought
was so good. I did the show how do you?
How do you? Because yeah, what is this footloose? I died,
and then he had to explain it to her because
she didn't know what yes was. Just thought it was
great that it was so great, especially like his reaction
(29:32):
was like, how yeah, I thought it was so good.
The other thing is that they call their department in
the DCC, and you know the the DCC is Dallas
Cowboys Cheerleaders. I had to write it down because I
could not was like, what could it possibly stand for?
It was so funny to me, so so funny. And
(29:55):
my final dig you see that was a true did
you see that? As I was watching the movie, I
flipped out. Michael and Monica are somewhere they're trying to
match make. They're like at a market or craft fair,
I don't remember. And what do I see in the
on a display and the background is a bunch of
Romance University sweatshirts, and I to that, I applaud you. Yes,
(30:18):
that's so fun I thought that was so amazing. I
hope that other people noticed it as well, because you know,
Ben is so he's a champion for his Romance University brand,
and I like their mission over there. I just thought
it was so fun and clever to see it in
the background of this movie. I think the hardcore airs
heads definitely noticed airs heads. Yes, you're right, you're right.
(30:42):
Before we get to our rating, where are we ranking
this on the smoochimeter smoa meter? What was the what
was the range? I forget well, the pulled out of
a hat yesterday. I mean I said ten out of ten,
flaming lips, I give it, yeah, solid seven. That's exactly
(31:03):
what I was gonna say. Hey, I love so I
love this new little, you know, segment of our We
need to create the image. We need to get it
up on Instagram. We got to. We got to, Yeah
for sure. All right, let's talk. What did you rate
a Christmas Angel Match? I gave it three point seven
five stars? Whoa? I gave it four point two five stars. Oh,
(31:27):
I liked it. I'm just you know what, I think
I'm just tiptoeing into this season that maybe a little conservatively. Sure, sure,
you want to save those ratings exactly just in case. Well,
thank you for listening to this episode of Girls Gone Hamewark,
a Bramble Jam podcast. If you love this podcast, friends,
(31:48):
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(32:20):
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