Friday, December 4, 2015

Signed, Sealed, Delivered, For Christmas

A group of dead letter office postal workers investigate a Christmastime letter, not to Santa, but to God himself in this this film from the people who brought you Touched By An Angel. From the outset, there appeared to be a lack of exposition, so a quick search revealed that Signed, Sealed, Delivered was actually A Hallmark Channel series which ended after one season but continued as a series of movies, starting with this one. Because of that, there's a number of subplots which are never quite resolved, which can be frustrating, assuming you won't be watching this channel January to October. There's an interesting angel angle, but much of the spirituality is a little too heavy handed to consider this light hearted fare. A lot of decorations, plus a Christmas pageant, but there's also a lot of life threatening illness, abandonment issues and deep meaning of life philosophical rhetoric. Nausea factor moderately high. Christmas factor moderately high, but not enough to overcome. Not MSG approved.

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