Listonixio
Fresh and Exciting
Freaktana
A Major Disappointment
Deanna
There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.
Ian
I hate cookery programs!But I love programs about food and artists and chefs (who are, after all, artists in their own, er, kitchen).If you've read any of my other reviews - which you probably haven't - you might wonder how I can score this 7 whereas other more, arguably, 'worthy' and ambitious movies score much lower.It's by Hallmark so you know what you're getting. It has no pretence. It sets out to do what it says on the tin and it does exactly that. There's no subterfuge. It doesn't try to be clever, misleading or something it's not. It's an enjoyable rom com and if that's what you want to watch, watch this - it won't leave you disappointed.
SnoopyStyle
Lauren Hennesey (Danielle Panabaker) has been critiquing food since she was a girl writing about her school cafeteria. She takes a job ghost writing for demanding San Francisco TV chef Dexter Durant (Shawn Roberts) to pay for her French cooking school. He refuses to put his recipes in a cookbook and initially, the two of them clash.This is a functional Hallmark romance. They even have the Ghost scene. The two leads are photogenic. It has nothing special. It's not bigger than one expects and it follows the standard formula. The movie does need a bigger love competitor. That is the one failure in following the formula. Mostly, it won't excel beyond the countless other TV romances.
musicmarshalls
This movie about professional Chefs seemed fun and well researched until an entire scene about an Italian appetizer, bruschetta, became the buzz word and theme for our opposite attract chefs. In Italian words written with "ch" are pronounced "k" not "sh". Certainly, we would expect these Chefs to know how to pronounce this popular appetizer, but they don't and I am immediately bounced out of the movie and our suspended belief. No jumping back in again. Hope someone got fired for that huge mistake!
boblipton
Over the past decade, comedies about chefs and cooks have become more common in the movies and the Hallmark Channel has created a few. In this one, we have another Hallmark romcom about a brittle, driven professional and a casual, inventive, uncertain genius -- but this time, it's the guy who's the brittle, unhappy professional and the gal who's casual and so forth.Well, hallelujah for that. Danielle Panabaker is awfully cute and able to project her vulnerability very well. Shawn Roberts offers a fine two-toned performance: control freak in the restaurant and barefoot in the country. Apparently no one bothered to talk with the script writer, because the dialogue makes reference to Miss Panabaker as being controlling.Well, occasionally, some subversion needs to go on to keep things fresh. Ron Oliver has gotten enough shots to make it visually clear that this takes place in San Francisco, the leads are good and the talking about food is intelligent. The result is more than good enough.
