The Perfect Holiday (2007) 8/10

Starring : Morris Chestnut, Gabrielle Union, Faizon Love, Charlie Murphy, Terrence Howard, Queen Latifah
Director : Lance Rivera
Running Time : 96 mins

Between various attempts at creating himself a musical career, Benjamin Armstrong (Chestnut) enjoys doing his bit for the community, and at Christmas he and his pal Jamal (Love) perform their Santa duties for the kids. But when one little girl asks him to find a man for her mother, Nancy (Union), he instantly falls for her, not knowing that her ex-husband is J-Jizzy (Murphy), a wrapper that he is trying to write songs with.

If it wasn’t for Terrence Howard and Queen Latifah, this would have been a pretty good movie. All their presence really did for this movie was to make it slightly annoying and gave it too much of a forced kiddie friendly feel. Other than that I liked the basic tale of a man wheedling his way into a woman’s life by using inside information – how romantic is that?

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