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That was an excellent one.

Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Awesome Movie

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

So much of this Christmas movie is downright delightful -- the casting, the music, the locations. Heck, the chemistry between our romantic couple is better than I've seen on many of these Lifetime/Hallmark movies (and I do love this kind of Lifetime/Hallmark movie). But I was upset about the dog (sub)plot when I thought this was titled "12 Wishes for Christmas." Now that I see its original title is "12 Wishes for Christmas for my Dog" I'm even more annoyed -- hence, the SPOILER ALERT.No, the dog doesn't die. But still....The dog is adorable -- but for some reason our heroine, who volunteers two days a week at a shelter/dog sanctuary, either adopted it while living in an apartment that doesn't allow pets, or moved with it to an apartment that doesn't allow pets, and to me, both those things make her a fairly irresponsible dog owner. Early on in the story, she's caught by management and told to either move out or get rid of the dog, SO SHE GETS RID OF THE DOG! Yes, she tells the dog "it's only for a little while" as she shuts the chain-link gate in its face at the shelter, but we then see her make NO (zero) effort to fix the problem. She doesn't look for a new apartment. She doesn't talk to management and ask if she can put down a significant deposit or something. Even once she gets her 12 wishes, she spends them on silly things -- new clothes, jewelry, a new car, winning the lottery, giving her best friend a good hair day -- and at no point do we see her even consider using one of those wishes to get her little dog back!Even worse, she gets so busy at work that she's even skipping her two days/week volunteering at the shelter -- the shelter owner says "long time no see," and our heroine makes excuses. Even after she's resolved almost everything toward the end (other than the dog issue, she does a pretty good redemption), she's having friends over to her house for Christmas WITHOUT THE DOG! The only reason she gets it back is that her new boyfriend arrives with the dog and says he talked to her manager and made arrangements for her to keep it. As a pet lover, I *really* hated this. I once had to put my cat in quarantine, and I visited her every day, for hours--I wrote and graded papers in the quarantine room--to minimize the time she had to feel abandoned. So if you love pets like I do, fair warning.Also, her Life-Coach helper (who is delightful) seems to be some kind of elf until, halfway through the story she references her halo, and our heroine starts calling her an angel, with no indication of surprise. Okay.Again, the acting and chemistry was great. The heroine's redemption in everything but the dog issue was wonderful. But I have to wonder if the writers ever had a pet of their own because, if they were as irresponsible as our protagonist, that might not be a good thing unless they take some kind of classes in pet ownership.

The previous reviewer summed it pretty adequately. I, too, wish I had those 2 hours back! We watch a LOT of Christmas movies and this might be one of the worst ones yet. For some reason, the title got changed, my feeling is a poor attempt to appeal to animal lovers, to "12 Wishes For My Dog." But the dog has very little to do with the story and the wishes are not really related to him. It would've made a better story if they were the dog's wishes!The movie had a couple of decent actors (Fred Willard, Michael Gross), the story premise was interesting, and there were some nice Holiday shots, and the star was very sweet (but totally unbelievable), but the acting was just bad. The story had promise but failed to execute. If you want a warm and fuzzy feeling, watch the last 5 minutes and skip the rest of the movie.

Guess I'm getting to a point at which positive stuff really does it for me, and this movie oozes Christmas kitsch.Okay, here are what hit me:1) Real liquid in a coffee cup!!!! I am so tired of movies always serving people air coffee, I mean even in the big budget really good ones!!!! What, are you afraid of spilling on the wardrobe you're going to take back?2) Horrible sets ... they won't fool you at all. And, yet ... and yet ... the acting, writing, directing, cinematography for the most part win the day and you won't care.3) That Christmas kitsch ... it's everywhere!!! And it is as bright and reassuring as the plot itself.4) They didn't say grace!!!! That was the one let-down in the otherwise darling entertainment for me. What, do we have a new genre? ... Christian movies that aim not to offend. This is the second really good one I've seen, the other being Paradise Recovered also reviewed here, and maybe that is what makes them work is the less obvious evangelism. I guess our girl wasn't really convinced, though, or maybe you can be good without being obvious about it. Maybe you are displaying your faith in how you treat others. That is basically what the movie says.

Very predictable plot, with an unimaginative story line. Ugh...the conflict of the story is very predictable and hard to stomach. The heroine is plays the stereotypical woman(fashion designer, drama queen, all that jazz). And the problems that the heroine go through, (wishing for only selfish things instead of good things) are not very well thought out. The script is very corny and predictable. Linsey also is a total drama queen, calling all of her petty problems in disasters and refers to her life as a colossal disaster. Worse wasted hour of my life. If you see this movie coming on, CHANGE THE CHANNEL!One word to describe: Awful