Why do I feel very attacked whenever they "villainize" Chuy/Jose Padilla (the protagonist)???

Of course he will be grumpy. On top of him only getting one gift every year (vs others getting one birthday gift and one Christmas gift) and people forgetting it's his birthday too, it appears that he is the one doing all the chores despite it being his special day. And to top it all off, it would appear that he buys everyone gifts too.

About the curse: why does his life get fast forwarded into his next birthday?! Except for the protagonist, everyone gets a memory of what Chuy has done from the last 364 days since his last birthday. If you put yourself into his shoes, would you be able to change your mistake if you are not even aware that it was a mistake to start with? Ironically, one of the plot lines talked about empathy and it would appear that the writer/s don't understand empathy that much - they can't empathize what their protagonist was going through.

No pun intended - it seems like this year .. or rather this Christmas there are a lot of Christmas themed movies. While I did enjoy the horror one (Christmas Bloody Christmas) and had a lot of fun with Violent Night (will not replace Die Hard, but definitely an instant classic) ... there are other movies like this one ... not a bad movie. But also quite predictable to say the least.

You can have fun with this and I would expect you to know what you let yourself into. There are a lot more Christmas themed movies but I will try to avoid them ... seen enough for this (holiday) season. The theme being the same ... well there is another pun for you ... but I'd prefer a punch .... wait that does not mean what I think it means ... does it? All kidding aside, there are worse movies out there ... but also a lot better ones.

Even though this movie has a plot that we are familiar with, I did not know what it was going to do with the idea or how it was going to be executed. This movie is a standard bad movie, which was interesting for me to watch in the original Spanish language with English subtitles on Netflix.

The acting in the movie is ok but could have been better, even though they were doing the best they could with what they were given. The main character starts out unlikable, which is understandable, but he starts to get annoying and hard to watch as the movie goes on.

When the movie started, I was confused by what they were starting with and how it was being shown, but also because it did not fit with the rest of the movie. The other characters will at times be fine but also give weird and unlikable performances that I did not like.

There is one character in the movie I thought was weird and was annoyed when it looked like he was messing with the main character for no reason. When the ending came, I did not feel a progression in the main character on him liking Christmas more and treating his family better because of how it wrapped up in the end.

I did not like this movie that much but at least they tried something different, but it did not work out that well. I will not recommend this Christmas movie when you should watch much better Christmas movies.