While I don’t normally like to start the year out on a negative note, I want to get the worst movie list out of the way so we can talk about the good movies this year! A lot of the movies this year weren’t bad, just boring. I’d hate to put them on the worst list for being boring. With that said, let’s get into the worst Christmas movies of 2024.

A ‘90s Christmas - When you link your movie to a specific decade, the viewers are looking for nostalgia. This movie only gives confusion.
Five Gold Rings - A mystery movie that completely fell apart by the second ring.
Christmas On The Alpaca Farm - This was a movie written by people who heard of alpacas but never actually saw one.
Tails Of Christmas - Never, ever make dogs the focus of your movie. It always ends up making your movie bad.
Mistletoe & Matrimony - I wasn’t sure about putting this on the list because it wasn’t completely terrible. Then I remembered the bride wanted to book a horse-drawn carriage at the last minute for a Christmas Eve wedding in Chicago.
Christmas By Candlelight - Bad script, bad plot, bad acting. There isn’t much more to say.
Christmas With The Singhs - This one wouldn’t have been on the list if the writers didn’t make the Singhs so unbearable. It’s possible to make a “sucky in-laws” movie without making them whiny babies.
Leah’s Perfect Gift - I almost rage-quit this movie. We need a sequel where Leah leaves the awful family before she marries their son and finds someone awesome who actually loves her.

Dishonorable Mentions:
Deck The Walls - While this movie wasn’t awful, the product placement was so bad and so in-your-face that it gets a dishonorable mention.
Sincerely, Truly Christmas - When the main female character acts like a child, it’s an immediate ‘no, thank you’ from me.

There you have it. These are the movies I thought were the worst this year. Let me know if you want a separate list for the movies I thought were the most boring. There were a lot of them! Coming up next: The BEST movies!

I originally thought Christmas With The Singhs was going to be a wacky “white guy learns about other cultures” movie. Kinda like what we had with Mistletoe & Menorahs back in 2019. Alas, it is not that type of movie. There was such potential and they wasted it.

Asha (Anuja Joshi) and Jake (Benjamin Hollingsworth) reconnected after graduating high school 18 years ago. After dating for a year, Jake proposes…without getting her father’s permission first. As they spend their first Christmas as an engaged couple together, can they meld their Christmas traditions together or will this tear them apart?

This really would have been a great way to highlight the differences between an Indian family Christmas and a white American family Christmas. Instead, what we get is Asha’s father, Samuel (Manoj Sood), rudely demanding that the couple do absolutely everything his family does while ignoring everything Jake’s family does. While I haven’t experienced it myself, I have heard that Asian families are rather strict about things. But this is insane. Thankfully, Asha’s mother, Nirmila (Nimet Kanji), is more understanding but that is probably because her family gave up their Hindu religion to join Samuel’s Catholic religion. She understands the sacrifice they made and how difficult it was to combine their families. Samuel is too set in his ways (or maybe selfish) to think about what would make his daughter happy.

I want to say the movie itself isn’t terrible. The acting and the script are pretty good. But it is really difficult to look past the fact that it is mostly Samuel stomping around whining about Asha ignoring her family when the couple spends most of their time WITH her family and actually ignoring his family. It all comes together in the end, of course. And I would love to maybe see a sequel where they truly highlight the things that each family does to make the season special to them. This just wasn’t it.

Rating: Samuel reading a story to children was really THE most important part of their tradition?