The Royal Nanny

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PROS- More London!! Scenery was sumptuous! More NEW TALENT!! Rachel Skarsten and Dan Jeannotte weren't tired, overly-used actors that we are all tired of seeing far too much of! Rachel was quick, witty, and her timing was perfect! Dan Jeannotte was a fresh take on the "Royal Prince role" with his wit and unabashed humor (-and he was very easy on the eyes!). The English accents were most welcome! GREAT, UNIQUE Storyline, and NOT WOKE!! Hallmark... Just a great, BIG "Thank You" for this! The two leads were BRILLIANT!! Really. Just great chemistry and humor between the two. The scenery was a feast for the eyes in London! The storyline was hilarious beginning with the MI5 agent being told she's going to be an undercover nanny, and she doesn't like kids LOL! Favorite quote from movie was "Scary Poppins!" GREAT JOB HALLMARK! Nailed It on this one!!

We enjoyed the characters and the actors and actresses very much. The story, although a little off, followed along naturally in a typical pleasant Hallmark fashion. It was a cozy evening, easy to watch movie. The children actors were not obnoxious and actually knew their lines. The Royal movies often go astray with an abundance of awful uniforms, mean old fathers or grandmothers, protocol, and newspaper headline catastrophes. We were glad the bypassed the, oh you screwed up - breakup routine in favor of an actual story. We'd like to see more stories without the misconstruance by one or both primary actors.

This was a delightful surprise. Finally, something a little bit different from Hallmark. I really enjoyed the plot particularly because Hallmark tends to replace Christmas activities for plot. The lead actors were very good and perfectly cast. Even though I don't particularly like royal movies, this had a very cute story. The script was charming with some very good dialogue. Overall, this was the best Christmas movie of 2022. It seems that every year the movies get more banal and formulaic. I wish the network would stop with small town stories and two lead characters who were high school sweethearts.....or even worse... childhood friends! It's not only unrealistic, but those relationships are so redundant. And, why can't the lead characters have two parents? Or siblings? Or come from one child families??? It baffles me that there's never any relatives at their Christmas dinners. You say you want to be more authentic, well you're not doing a very good job Hallmark!