Rating*: B+
His & Her Christmas is a romantic comedy Christmas story about two warring journalists, one a guy who is very successful, is looking to cash in on his popularity by getting a TV show and is sort of disillusioned about Christmas and the other a gal who writes an advice column for a smaller independent paper but starts writing columns about how great Christmas is right after she finds out that their paper is getting bought out. Her hope is to rally the local citizens by reminding them of their love for Christmas. I guess. It's kind of hokey. Of course. He is forced to write response columns and well, go figure, the public takes her side and doesn't like to read a Scroogey column. Meanwhile, he's falling for her based on her picture and her way with words and she kind of falls for him instantly upon meeting him. But wait, they aren't supposed to fall in love, they are supposed to hate each other! It's actually kind of cute as long as you remove all expectations of plausibility. The two main actors, Dina Meyer and David Sutcliffe (Christopher from Gilmore Girls), are good actors, have good chemistry and do what they can. My one problem is that (spoiler alert!) he gives up his dream of having a talk show to save her paper after I think they shared one kiss and hadn't even been on any dates yet. Umm, wow.
*A disclaimer about the ratings: These ratings are slanted for genre. Consider a scale where "A equals outstanding Christmas movie" and "D equals so awful that even it's sweet message cannot save it." By no means whatsoever can these ratings be compared with non-Christmas movies. Christmas movies, though they should be well-acted enough, have a level of hokiness, mysticism and coincidence that one has to be willing to accept. If not and the story was truly evaluated, all Christmas movies would probably get a poor grade.
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