Well I have just watched 'A Very Yorkshire Christmas'. I'm not sure why the title has changed here to 'British'.

Sadly it's one of those silly, predictable films, you know as soon as there's a young woman and a single bloke that something will happen, throw in a toothless 'cute' (to some) daughter, plus a failing business............

Although filmed in Yorkshire, it was obviously an American film, with a dire and schmaltzy American script. It's a wonder they weren't all saying 'happy holidays'. They even sing a traditional American carol, one hardly heard here.

It's odd that the 'opera singer' is en-route to Vienna but ends up in Yorkshire! How she keeps her hair and (lots of) make-up intact is beyond me. As well her extensive wardrobe (my friends counted four coats and several pairs of boots).

Anyway, the lead male is dreadful. Goodness know why he was cast - he has no charisma, no personality and sounds like David Beckham. Is he even an actor? He delivers the already poor lines with a monotone pitch, no emotion, nothing. The daughter is Kate (aaargh). It must have been explained but I wonder how the mum, son and grandchild ended up in Yorkshire; mum has a slight Yorkshire/northern accent (the wonderful Michelle Dotrice), son has a cockney accent, the child, Kate can't make up her mind which accent she should be using.

SPOILER NB it usually snows in Yorkshire - I don't know why there constant remarks about it - the CGI snow wouldn't have been needed had they filmed in winter!

I have watched 46 Christmas movies from 2019 so far and this was one of the good ones. That being said, it could have been a lot better. First the cast. I really enjoyed watching the two leads together but despite a few great moments, the their love story was not very well written. The little girl pretty much stole the show with her delightful role.

I question why have the lead character be a famous singer when she never sings in the movie? Oh, she does sing with the choir at the end, but you don't hear her voice. Huh? An opera singer's voice would not lift above all others? If she wasn't going to really sing, why have her be a singer? She could have easily have been a famous actress or an heiress or any number of professions.

Lastly, what about the niece working in the bakery? She was quite pretty, single and easily could have wooed the male lead but didn't? Odd.

It sounds like I didn't enjoy it but I actually did. The countryside was beautiful. I just think better writing could have made it even better. Two scenes at the train station and only the conductor and the lead female; no other extras? I scored it 7 points because it did inspire some wonderful tears of joy.