Review of Happiest Season (2020) by Jluis_001 — 15 Dec 2020

It's a fairly feel-good film, but it's so sweetened, that it ends up cloying the palate.

Putting aside the positive element of its inclusive theme, the problems lie in the fact that its narrative resources of acceptance and pain are rooted in cliches of "moments of revelation", therefore the climax and the conflict are so predictable that you see them coming almost from the beginning, and that, no matter how hard it tries, the film never manages to shake it off.

And it takes that issue until the end, because for that same romantic and Christmas theme, the film has no choice but to unify the entire plot in a happy ending, so naturally you know where everything is going at all times.

So the whole functional capability of this film lies in how much you're willing to buy from it as a viewer.

If you're looking for a story like this to have a good time, you will love it, but it will only take you that far, yet in the end, that's all this film is looking for.