Strangely, the final movie of Hallmark Channel’s Loveuary releases, Sisterhood Inc., is not about romance. Depending who you talk to, it isn’t really about love at all. A weird choice to end your month of love.

Megan (Rachel Leigh Cook) is a successful corporate executive who just got fired from the company she founded. Her sister, Izzy (Daniella Monet), is a bit of a mess. When Izzy begs Megan to help her get her life together, Megan decides to run Izzy’s life like a business. She forms a board of directors with successful people from Izzy’s life to make all of Izzy’s important decisions for her. Since the board needs an impartial third party, psychology professor Dominic (Leonidas Gulaptis) steps up to the plate. The board can make Izzy successful but can they make her happy?

As I said before, this movie isn’t about romance. It’s about the broken relationship between Megan, Izzy, and their mother Lois (Judy Kain). Megan seems to have the perfect life, except that she pushes everyone who cares about her away. Izzy has a chaotic irresponsible life but she makes Lois happy by giving her someone to care for. Lois is a helicopter mother to Izzy, who is about to turn 30 and really shouldn’t need a parent hovering over her. While turning Izzy’s life into a business wasn’t the best idea, it did serve it’s purpose. After the Big Conflict, the women are able to begin to repair their broken relationship. Oh, and Dominic exists as a sort of love interest for Megan, even though he really isn’t necessary.

I found Sisterhood Inc. rather sweet and endearing but that is mostly because Monet is perfect at playing a woman living in chaos and Cook is a good offset to that. Sure, there should have been a little more meat to the story - the Dominic and Megan relationship appears out of nowhere and is never really built on, we don’t get to spend a lot of time with any of the board members teaching their specialty to Izzy, and Megan spends a lot of time trying to sell an app that would never really be successful. But it is still cute and it’s a decent break from cheesy romance movies. And I could always use more Daniella Monet in my life.

Rating: 3 out of 5 hearts

Once again, I did zero research on Holiday Crashers before I turned it on. I suddenly heard a familiar voice…and that is when I realized that Daniella Monet, who has starred in number of shows and movies on Nickelodeon, is the secondary female lead. I definitely did not expect her to show up in a Hallmark Christmas movie. This better be good!

Toni (Lyndsy Fonseca) and Bri (Monet) are best friends that happen to work together in a card shop. When Bri finds an extra invitation to a client’s fancy Christmas party, she suggests that the duo spend the season crashing the holiday parties of the shop’s customers. They make up fake personas and have an amazing time. Until Toni, who finished law school but never finished the bar exam, gets mistaken for a working lawyer. Afraid to come clean, she drags Bri with her on a corporate retreat to Vermont to help a business with an acquisition. Will it all come apart when the truth comes out?

I have to admit that Holiday Crashers was pretty fun. I loved the parts where Toni and Bri were making up backstories for themselves, no matter how ridiculous they were. Of course, later in the movie they backfire but that is what makes it fun, right? I don’t think this movie would have worked as well if they didn’t have Monet playing Bri. Monet has an ability to give amazing personalities to characters that you probably shouldn’t like. If anyone else had this role, I can almost guarantee that Bri would have been grating and annoying instead of playful.

Another plus in the movie is that we don’t get one romance, we get two. And we actually get a little more story between Bri and Vinny (Jag Bal) than we do with the “main” romance, Toni and Justin (Chris McNally). I’m OK with that since I like Bri as a character better than Toni anyway. But for those of you looking for the romance part of these movies, this one won’t let you down.

Rating: Can I get a sequel with Bri and Vinny next year?