Mermaids & Christmas go together like.....

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A Mermaid For Christmas


This movie centers on an ancient tale that was made up by people with limited imaginations. In ancient Greece a guy names Pericles was in love with Daphne who wasn’t in love with him because of class differences. So he goes off to war and his momma the sorceress is so angry with him for going to war (because she knows he will die) that she takes it out on Daphne and curses her to become a mermaid. Classic ancient Greece. But she gives her an out. Every 100 years she gets ten days to walk on earth and try to find who Pericles has reincarnated to and make him fall in love with her and do a selfless act. If she does, she is out of the worlds largest aquarium. Since this movie is set in the now, this means she has had like at least 30 chances at this point. Some great character development could have happened if they talked about her growth over those times, but they didn’t.




So she lands in “Cocoa Key” and sees the modern day Pericles. He is a sailor and bar owner with large muscles and very blue eyes. Subplot as to why he is still single is that his wife died of cancer five years ago and occasionally still visits him in ghost/memory form.The town mayor wants him to sell his bar so she can develop the land. The movie begins with a dramatic scene upon his boat where the town mayor pulls out of her bra some legal docs giving him a deadline. Because that is where I store all of my legal docs.There is a lot of arguing at the beginning, which does not make for a feel good holiday movie. Town mayor goes to his mother, they argue a lot. Gingerbread men are crumbled. Literally.Choice quotes:“That woman has got enough coal in her stocking to power half of California for a month.” “Wait do we still use coal?” hahaNot to worry Daphne the mermaid saves the day and gets some gold out of the sea so he doesn’t default on his loan. Mayor gets mad, tells Daphne to leave town. Daphne at this point after swimming in modern day Pericles’s mothers pool is in love with him and decides to leave so his bar can be saved. She leaves, he finds out, goes after her, guess what no more worlds largest aquarium for you! Welcome to 2019 sweetheart.This movie was terrible. The acting, the writing, the everything.

It gets a D+

Holiday movies so white scale 1-10 (1 being actually reflecting the world we live in, 10 being so white) 8

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10161708/