The Flight Before Christmas (2015) Mayim Bialik, Ryan McPartlin, Reginald VelJohnson, Jo Marie Payton, Brian Doyle-Murray, Trilby Glover, Roxana Ortega Movie Review

The Flight Before Christmas (2015)   3/53/53/53/53/5


Mayim Bialik and Ryan McPartlin in The Flight Before Christmas (2015)

Strangers on a Plane

Having already made the awkward phone call to tell her mum she won't be coming home for Christmas as she is going to move in with her boyfriend, Brian (Gib Gerard - All About Christmas Eve), Stephanie (Mayim Bialik - Beaches) is left broken hearted when he decides to dump her on the day she was going to move in. Deciding to take a last minute flight home, Stephanie meets Michael (Ryan McPartlin - A Perfect Christmas) who is planning on surprising his girlfriend, a quite demanding girlfriend, with a Christmas proposal. But a freak snow storm means their plane has to divert to Bozeman, Montana where Stephanie manages to nab the last room in a B&B. Despite having clashed when they sat next to each other on the plane Stephanie lets Michael share their room as they try to make the best of a bad deal.

A broken hearted girl meets a man on the way to be engaged to someone who clearly is not the right person for them. These strangers start off by being annoyed at each other but of course they start to see each other differently the longer they spend together. Oh and just for good measure anyone who sees them together mistakes them as a couple. I need more than all my fingers and thumbs to count the number of movies I have watched which uses this strangers meet and fall for each other storyline and whilst most have been from the world of made for TV movies some have been from the big screen. And now I have another as "The Flight Before Christmas" delivers all of what I have just said in a completely typical manner, in fact so typical that "The Flight Before Christmas" is one Christmas movie which really doesn't need much reviewing.

What is worth mentioning is that not to be bored by "The Flight Before Christmas" you need to be a Mayim Bialik fan as she is the movie's main draw. Fortunately I have always liked Bialik especially because when she is doing soulful she sounds believable but she also has the snap to make the quick comedy lines work even when those lines are not always that great. Aside from Mayim Bialik, well there is Ryan McPartlin in such a generic Christmas movie nice guy role that the chances are you will even forget he was in "The Flight Before Christmas".

What this all boils down to is that "The Flight Before Christmas" is nothing special and there are a lot of other movies out there which use a similar storyline about strangers meeting on a plane, train or some other type of automobile. But if you are a fan of Mayim Bialik and made for TV Christmas movies then this one is a nice time waster even if I doubt you will remember it come next year.

Tags: TV Christmas Movies, Christmas Movies


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