The Knight Before Christmas

​I have watched a lot of cheesy Christmas films in my time, and this is by far the strangest. However, I could not stop looking at it.
 
Cole (Josh Whitehouse) is a squire in medieval Norwich, who, whilst on a quest, goes through a portal and lands in modern-day Ohio. I will never understand why the portal took him to a place that didn’t even exist at that time, let alone the fact that it is in a completely different country. Logistics aside, Cole appears in Ohio and is almost run over by Brooke (Vanessa Hudgens – yes this is a classic Hudgens event). She takes him in, teaches him about the modern world, and then they, of course, fall in love. Cole then has to decide whether he wants to go back to Norwich or stay in Ohio with Brooke. I’m pretty sure you know how this ends!
 
I will be honest, I forgot most of what happened in this movie immediately after I finished watching it, which I think says a lot. However, despite the stilted acting and the very loose storyline, the film definitely has its endearing moments.
 
One moment that does stick out to me, which has sent me down a little bit of a conspiracy hole even though it was literally thirty seconds long, was a scene where they sat down to watch a movie. They were, of course, using Netflix and decided to watch The Christmas Prince – Netflix’s biggest Christmas rom-com trilogy (and one of my cheesy favourites). This suggests that The Knight Before Christmas takes place in our universe as they are watching the same films as us. It is completely ridiculous, but this small detail has actually kept me up at night wondering how all the Netflix originals potentially interact, but that’s for another time!
 
Although this is a bad, bad film, it is not Vanessa Hudgens’s worst (I think we all know which movie that is) and it is enjoyable. Plus the ending is extremely romantic, which is all we really want from films like this.