20 good things that happened in 2017
20. A Christmas Prince
We might as well start in a goofy, lighthearted sort of place. A Christmas Prince took some wings of the Internet by storm at the end of this year. That’s thanks in part to a tweet from Netflix checking in on some of the movie’s most dedicated viewers.
To the 53 people who've watched A Christmas Prince every day for the past 18 days: Who hurt you?
— Netflix (@netflix) December 11, 2017
This movie is so fantastically ridiculous that it will provide hours of mind-bending fodder for even the laziest movie viewer. It follows Amber Moore, a young aspiring journalist who snags a sweet assignment to report on the royal family of Aldovia. See, crown prince Richard must decide whether or not to take the throne of this nation, which happens to look like the front cover of a holiday cookie box.
Aldovia is replete with snowy mountainscapes, people riding majestically on horseback, and cabins so aggressively cozy that you will feel like you’re being smothered in a thousand woolen blankets.
Logical inconsistencies
When Richard cancels his press conference, Amber recklessly enters the royal palace to aimlessly wander around and take pictures of armor.
Luckily, she’s caught by the least cautious security guard in the history of the world. He assumes that she’s the new American tutor for the young Princess Emily. Amber is immediately led into the heart of the palace and given unsupervised access to a young girl.
Seriously, no one thinks to check her ID until more than an hour through the movie. Meanwhile, she’s free to bond with the mildly interesting young princess and her older brother, Richard. Oh, and Richard? Bless him, he’s plenty nice. Alas, Richard is also what would happen if the color beige wished it could become a human being. His character is so uninteresting that he’s become an unthreatening fill-in-the-blank man.
Of course, everything turns out fine in the end. And it’s practically a requirement that Amber descends down some stairs to attend a ball, wearing a genuinely pretty dress, long gloves, and an unfortunate amount of eyeshadow. All that and a mildly self-indulgent glass of wine (or whatever beverage tickles your fancy) makes for a fun and exceedingly snarky evening.